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16 PIKE’S LEGACY
What really caused the Pike River tragedy? We uncover vital new evidence
20 THE CHESHIRE KEY He's threatened to quit if he loses, but that's an easy threat to make when you're as far ahead in the polls as John Key
24 SCHMITZ-CO
The German con-artist and porn king Kim Schmitz takes over the Chrisco mansion in Auckland
48 ROAD WARRIORS
Everything you need for the complete mobile office (see GADGETS)
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28 OSAMA’S PACIFIC LAIR Matt Thompson’s there as gunships open fire on a Pacific island terror base
32 NIC CAGE: INTERVIEW Cage opens up on his politics and Oliver Stone’s 9/11 movie
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6 /BRIEFING From the Editor's desk 8 /COMMUNIQUES Your say 10 /EYES RIGHT Richard Prosser 12 /STEYNPOST Mark Steyn 14 /HOTZONE Climate nuttery
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40 /SPORT Rally of NZ – anatomy of a car crash 41 /SPORT World Cup buildup 42 /MARINE Eye of the Tiger 44 /DRIVE The hot new Italian in town
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48 The complete mobile office kit 49 Tech products to watch for in 2011 50 The Mall 52 Online with Chillisoft
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56 /ONSCREEN Russell Crowe pushes the envelope 58 /BOOKCASE Michael Morrissey's summer picks 60 /NOTPC Amy Brooke blasts the bureaucrats 62 /THEQUESTION Matt Flannagan on the meaning of life
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So what is HIS? A magazine you want to read. Story-driven, well-written, tight and evocative articles, and big photos. The strong narrative is what will draw men in
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FAMILY MAN WEATHER MAN 9/11 MAN HIS OWN MAN
nicolas cage WORDS BY JORDAN RIEFE • PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATE CALLEN/UPI • 9/11 IMAGES: AP
Nicolas Cage flicks me a grimace, those cold eyes seeking the soul in mine, trying to sense my purpose in the question. Lord of war? I struggle to remind myself there is no Uzi in the satchel beside him. And then the moment passes as the enigmatic actor shrugs. "Yeah," he sighs, "making that movie hurt"... 14 HISMAGAZINE.TV
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Q: There was a sense of art imitating life when you did Weather Man... A: At the time I agreed to do The Weather Man I was going through a divorce and I was trying to figure out how I could take a negative and turn it into a positive. And when I received the script for The Weather Man, I thought, ‘Oh well, here’s a parallel.’ Sometimes I choose movies that help me, like a therapy, help me do something positive with a negative emotion. And The Weather Man was an opportunity to take this well of feeling that I had and just funnel it into Dave Spritz. It was my producing partner who brought it to me and I said, ‘This is really right for me at this time because I have a lot of stuff I want to get out.’ Dave and I were going through similar experiences and so it became an overlay, if you will, of my life and David Spritz’s.
Q: How many times have things been thrown at you?
A: I wish I could be more colourful and say all the time but I’ve never had anything thrown at me; at least not food. There have been times in the past when girls have thrown glasses at me.
Q: How much cash do you normally carry in your wallet?
A: Do you want to come and look? You know, I don’t even have my wallet or any cash on me. But I do go to the supermarket. I just went to the market and bought about 20 packages of Gillette shavers. I buy in bulk. And I used one this morning.
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A: I think no matter what walk of life we’re in or who we are, we all have that connection with our father because we are small in the beginning and they’re big so there’s this awesome regard for dad. And on top of that, my dad is a professor of literature so he’s very, very smart. So I was always thinking how I can aspire to be him? There was this intimidating aura growing up with a university professor, but yes, I did use my own feelings about my own father.
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HIS action /SPORT 64 All Blacks’ Build-up
They've cruised to victory so far, but can the AB’s hold their edge?
/MARINE 66 Eye Of The Tiger
A shark’s eye has an eerie ability to pin you from any angle, but diving an 18th century brigantine in the corals off North Australia is perhaps the last place you want to catch a tiger shark’s orb just as you drift around a corner in the current...
/DRIVE 70 Alfa’s New Brera See below, without the tree
‘before’ shot: >> “It was a mind-blowing, fly-by-the-seatof-your-pants, take no prisoners kind of ride – right up to the point where we hit the tree...”
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There is a sense of mystery – a ‘Master and Commander’ aura, even – to the idea of diving ancient Spanish, Portuguese and British shipwrecks off the northern coast of Australia. But the Barrier Reef is a treacherous place for seacraft even today, and in waters teeming with sharks and the occasional salt-water croc it does occur to me that I should have added ‘madness’ to the aforementioned ‘mystery’ and ‘aura’...
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Words by BRIAN CANTWELL Photography by IAN SCOTT Appearance of shark: DEUS EX MACHINA hrough the fog inside my dive mask, which is suctioned to my face so hard that my nose feels like a bulldog’s, I wink stinging salt out of one eye and peer down through the water at a wrinkled brain the size of a foot stool. Nearby is a handful – so to speak – of Dead Man’s Fingers. Not far from that is a healthy patch of Creamsicle-colored fire coral that I suddenly realize, due to the downward swing of a Pacific Ocean swell, is only a few perilous centimetres from my belly. In a frenzy of kicking flippers, I shoot away to safety, just missing the fire coral’s nasty sting. Clutching tote board and pencil, counting coral like a salty census official, I’m having a remarkably good time. Really. The brain and the descriptively named purple “fingers” are types of coral, by the way. But it is the sight of old timbers – the skeleton of a British brigantine, Persephone, which grounded here back in 1803 – that really has my focus. HISMAGAZINE.TV 19
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/THEQUESTION 92 If the answer is not "42"...
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three days: >> Roger Moore casts his eye across Russell Crowe's new movie, The Next Three Days
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