No image available
/ 19 January 2001
When the end credits of <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> began to roll at Cannes, I at first thought the applause and cheering for this Scandinavian musical, made in Sweden and Denmark in a form of English, to be ironic. How could anyone have admired or been moved by this tedious, banal, incompetent movie?
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Andrew Worsdale visits the set of Darrell Roodt’s ‘Mission Impossible without a budget’.
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
With <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> it is as though Lars von Trier set himself the challenge of making a musical from the most unpromising materials possible. Here we have the tragic or melodramatic story of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czech immigrant, a single mother with a young son, working in a factory somewhere in middle America.
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
If you have the bucks and the hunger, hot-off-the-press handbooks are ready to tell you all about the best places to splash out on the Big Eat-Out, what to order and how much you’ll have to sign off on that platinum card. Two top restaurant guides have been updated, bringing breezy, up- beat reports of […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Grant Shimmin athletics A representative of the sponsors was moved to observe at the Absa Series launch in Johannesburg this week that the six-meeting series represented “the pinnacle” of South African domestic athletics. That is patently not the case, although an event that would come closer to the mark the national senior track and field […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Soap opera sub-plots means more attention on the women’s game at the Australian Open Jon Henderson At the end of last year, the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, wrote cloying appreciations of one another for an American magazine. At about the same time, only child Martina Hingis went off to South America and, according to […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Andy Capostagno golf The annual return of the European Tour to South Africa usually presages two things; big money and heavy rain. And the signs are that this year will be no different. The recent performance of the rand has already ensured that in local terms this week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at the Houghton Golf […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Guy Willoughby review OFTHEWEEK Othello does Maynardville, Maynardville does Othello … intriguing resonances are set up on this millennial cusp down at the fusty-touristy Cape, where the Bard’s most racially charged tragedy finally makes it on to the South African stage with, goodness, a black actor in the title role. Shakespeare, global export and citizen […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
Look beyond the wigs and waistline Dolly is still queen of country, says Maddy Costa There’s something about Dolly Parton that other old-time country stars don’t have: a very particular ability to make people wrinkle their noses.? She represents a specific, perhaps unrivalled grade of Nashville bad taste,?which is quite an achievement considering that city’s […]
No image available
/ 19 January 2001
David Le Page Takeuchi was a tiny robot built from two cockroach legs and a silicon chip. An innocuous cyborg, he toddled for up to an hour at a time across flat surfaces at the University of Tokyo, where researchers built him in 1996. The little machine had a conventional silicon chip micro-controller, an artificial […]