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/ 15 December 2000
One of the reasons for the success of American slasher movies is that they confirm the predominantly middle-class teenagers’ worst suspicions about their parents’ world. It’s as nasty and violent as the news implies, and the new bogey-man or archetype of that world is the serial killer.
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/ 15 December 2000
Talk show host Larry King often asks his actor guests if they derive their professional enjoyment from being other people for a while, and they usually answer yes. Actors can do it regularly, but ordinary people seldom get the chance – a chance I suspect many of us would take, just for the thrill of it, were it offered.
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/ 15 December 2000
This time last year we got Arnold Schwarzenegger’s apocalyptic action picture <i>End of Days</i>, in which he had to battle the devil himself to save the world from … well, from the devil himself. This Christmas his big-budget offering is <b>The Sixth Day</b>, in which he has to battle evil would-be world-dominators who have mastered the science of cloning people.
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/ 15 December 2000
Shaun de Waal November this year was the centenary of the death of Oscar Wilde in a cheap Paris hotel; it has been said that the 20th century, on the doorstep of which he died, was the Wilde century. In many ways, Wilde was a (sometimes?unwitting) prophet of the hundred years after his death. In […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Which is more authentic: a game-rich wilderness or a cattle pasture? Fred Pearce traces the birth of a myth Most of us have a vision of “primeval” wild Africa as it was before Europeans arrived: of bush teeming with wildebeest and elephants, lions and zebras. We’ve seen it on TV in endless wildlife documentaries filmed […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Thebe Mabanga in your ear Well, here’s to a year that was kicked off by a bug that was so menacing, we would not have the pleasure of listening to radio were it to materialise. Of course there are times when listening to radio is not such a pleasure and one cannot help but wish […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Glenda Daniels In the most significant legal attack yet on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty process, the families of activists slain by Craig Williamson are applying for a judicial review of the pardon given to the superspy. Relatives of Jeanette Schoon, her six-year-old daughter Katryn and Ruth First who were all blown up […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Neal Collinssoccer Bafana Bafana captain Lucas Radebe suffered the indignity of being dropped by Leeds last Saturday just 48 hours before being asked to pick up his Fifa Fair Play award in Rome and already talk of a move to Tottenham Hotspur is gaining momentum. With Radebe axed to accommodate David O’Leary’s record signing Rio […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Nicky Blumenfeld It was really surprising to discover that coming to perform in South Africa for the first time is not particularly significant for Burning Spear. He says: “It feels good, as good as if I were going to Australia or Japan or Europe, or anywhere else in the world … it’s the same feelings […]
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/ 15 December 2000
Nawaal Deane Peter Gaul is 25 years old and brain damaged. He communicates by moving his eyebrows. He breathes through a pipe connected from his throat and is intravenously fed by a tube from his stomach. Six years ago Gaul was the driver in a car accident that resulted in the death of his best […]