Hollywood came to town this week — in the form of Jean-Claude Van Damme. He spoke to Peter Johnson.
The feel-good, teenage boy rite-of-passage pic set in the early Sixties has, in the Nineties, become a genre all of its own. The era of JF Kennedy is, after all, easy to invoke as white America’s age of innocence — a social-science lab purged of confounding variables where all the truisms about character, honour, manhood […]
Leaving Las Vegas is a pretty uncompromising look at the lives of two no-hopers loose in Las Vegas, who stumble across each other and fall in love. The two, superbly played by Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (see picture) , are a drunk and a prostitute respectively. Their fondness for each other, gained slowly, does […]
Alex Dodd steps into the Funktion to discover the latest buzz in multi-purpose urban spaces — trend emporium by day, cyberzone by night.
A FRISSON of fear is running through the ranks of junior advocates, following the recent decision of the Bar Council to allow attorneys to appear in court with senior advocates. Attorneys were given the right to appear in court on their own last year, but the latest move is seen as more of a threat […]
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As demand for South African exports increases, mining houses can expect profits, but the consumer will be hard hit, writes Bronwen Jones COAL will be in short supply this winter as overseas demand soars and the rand makes foreign sales more attractive. Add to this the lulls in production enforced by heavy rains earlier this […]
Mungo Soggot THE truth commission could be paralysed by being forced to operate like a normal court after the Cape Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow retired policemen access to truth commission documents, lawyers said this week. They said the decision could set a precedent which opened the gap for other judgments to order […]
I READ your article “TML’s nervous editors” (April 19 to 25) with keen interest. The editors and their managers have every reason to be nervous. In fact, they should be shaking in their boots. If a black consortium does take over Times Media Limited, it should bring an end to racism at this self-proclaimed citadel […]