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BRANDENBURG’S 25 YEARS Fat Tony & Co. debuts
● Debra Byrne as Judy Moran ■ Highly anticipated drama series Fat Tony & Co, based on the story of Australia’s drug baron, Tony Mokbel, premieres this Sunday (Feb, 23), at 8.40pm on Channel 9. The new production from Screentime, tells the story of Australia’s most-wanted man, from the day he quit cooking pizza in favour of cooking drugs, to the heyday of his $140 million drug empire, all the way through to his arrest in an Athens café and his 22-year sentence in Victoria’s maximum security prison. Robert Mammone stars as Tony Mokbel with Vince Colosimo as Alphonse Gangitano, Gyton Grantley as Carl Williams, Les Hill as Jason Moran, Madeleine West as Danielle McGuire, Simon Westaway as Mick Gatto, Debra Byrne as Judy Moran, Hollie Andrew as Roberta Williams, Jake Ryan as Mark Moran, Gerard Kennedy as Graham Kinniburgh and Kevin Harrington as Lewis Moran. Fat Tony & Co. also features Shane Jacobson, Stephen Curry, Steve Bastoni, Richard Cawthorne, Simone Kessell and Nicholas Bishop. Already a key player on the Australian drug scene in his own right, Fat Tony becomes more deeply embroiled in the underworld as he joins forces with up-and-coming drug dealer Carl Williams. He strikes an uneasy truce with the Carlton Crew, the territorial and dangerous royalty of the Melbourne underworld, even doing business from time to time with the Moran family. With his three brothers and Carl Williams, Tony expands his drug empire into a multi-million dollar industry, all the while investing his profits in honest bricks and mortar, determined to leave a legacy for the family and the city that he loves. However, the burning tension between Carl and the Carlton Crew is quickly devolving into all-out war – the Melbourne gangland war that would eventually claim some 30 lives. Tony is losing control of his well-ordered operation, and is finding it harder and harder to remain a neutral businessman. But Tony isn’t like other underworld figures - he always has a plan and an eye to the future, even when it seems like the police have closed every door to him. The ambition and drive that it took for Tony Mokbel to rise from a suburban milk bar owner to Australia’s most wanted man was matched only by the sheer determination of the police in their 10year battle to shut Fat Tony down. The Victorian and Federal Police undertook a marathon attempt to bring him to justice, spanning countless arrests, legal battles and the downfall of more than one corrupt officer. Fat Tony & Co. is the story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
Todd tours Vic. ■ If you only know Todd McKenney from his persona as the grumpy judge on Dancing With The Stars, you owe it to yourself to see him in action as an all singing, all dancing performer. Long before his television exposure, Todd was building a solid music theatre career in shows like 42nd Street where he had to be both a fabulous singer and tap dancer. But it was being cast as Peter Allen in the original Australian production of The Boy From Oz where he really hit his straps. Having seen Todd in both the original and the revival Boy From Oz shows,it seems he was born to bring Peter Allen to life. So it seems appropriate that in April he starts a tour right around Victoria and New South Wales as Todd McKenney Sings Peter Allen, though he promises the show will also include songs from his earlier musical theatre performances, and he will tell stories and anecdotes about Peter …as well as sharing the goss from Dancing With the Stars! Todd is a born entertainer, and in a move that Peter Allen would have approved, he starts the tour on Friday April 4 in Bendigo, then heads north to Mildura and arrives for his Melbourne show on Friday April 11 at The Palms At Crown, before heading north. www.toddmckenney.com.au or www.ticketek,com.au - Julie Houghton
● Paul Dyer ■ Maintaining musical longevity in a country far removed from European musical roots isn't easy, but the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has managed to do that for 25 years. Specialising in the early Western musical masters like Bach, the Brandenburgs, as they are fondly known, also dip their collective toe into the 21st century with a special work written for them by contemporary composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Artistic director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer, was a post-graduate piano student at the Sydney Conservatorium with Kats-Chernin, and is delighted she has written a piece especially for his orchestra. "Elena is in seriously high demand around the world for her concert pieces, opera and theatre music. “Elena has written and epic and triumphant piece that gather momentum becoming bigger and bigger as it builds in excitement - like the story of the Brandenburg's! “The past 25 years have been a thrilling ride, showing no signs of slowing down,” Dyer says. Kats-Chernin's creation is called Prelude and Cube, which is described as a vivacious homage to Bach with a feeling of 'celebratory grandness'. The special 25th anniversary concert will also feature Bach's flamboyant Magnificat, and his Suite No 4 in D Major. Named after Bach's famous Brandenburg Concertos, what marks the Brandenburgs out from other orchestras is its focus on being a period instrument orchestra with gut strings, wooden flutes and valve-less natural horns and trumpets. Over 25 years the Brandenburgs have generated a large following of music lo lovers around the country. The Melbourne concert is on Saturday February 22 at 7pm with a repeat concert on Sunday, February 23 at 5pm. www.brandenburg.com.au - Julie Houghton
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Playlist at Kinfolk Cafe ■ Red Stitch presents PLAYlist for one night only on Friday, March 14 at 7pm at the donkey wheel house/ Kinfolk Café, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne (opposite Southern Cross Station). Each writer selects a love song, each love song inspires a playlet and each playlet is only as long as the song. Written by Dean Bryant, Melissa Bubnic, Cat Commander, Duncan Graham, Mareike Hardy, Fleur Kilpatrick, Dan Lee, Michele Lee, Ian Meadows, Joanna Murray-Smith, Natasha Picus, Tim Potter and Tim Rogers, PLAYlist will be performed by Red Stitch and special guests. In the extraordinary setting of donkey wheel house, Red Stitch invites you to an evening of play. Drinks and delicious Kinfolk food available throughout the night. Tickets: Earlybird $30 (limited), $40 Full/$25 Conc Bookings: www.redstitch.net - Cheryl Threadgold
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Boolarra Folk Festival ■ The 12th Boolarra Folk festival will be held on Saturday, March 1. Artists scheduled to appear include Bluegrass inspired duo The Hannafords, three-piece Jed Rowe Band whose repertoire includes blues to alt-country, plus a host of other Gippsland-based musicians and others. The Boolarra Folk Festival is a free annual community event held in the beautiful country township of Boolarra. www.boolarrafolkfestival.com
Rick Price on tour ■ Australia's Rick Price has commenced The River Tour which will see him performing in Queensland, NSW, ACT and Victoria. The award-winning singer songwriter these days travels the globe performing everywhere from Nashville to South-East Asia. His extensive bio also includes touring with Tommy Emmanuel, starring in the 2011 narrative concert John Denver Story plus song writing with the A-list of Australian country artists. Victorian fans can see Rick at the Motor City Music Festival Geelong Friday, March 7 to - Sunday, March 9. rickprice.com.au
Rob E.G. returns ■ Followjng on from his return to the stage at the 2014 Tamworth Music Festival, Rob E.G. (aka Robbie Porter) has now joined forces with country music young gun Ben Ransom to produce his new single. As a record producer, Robbie has scored 29 number one hits in Australia, the US and around the world. His artist roster included Air Supply, Daddy Cool, Tommy Emmanuel, Colleen Hewett, Marcia Hines, Hush and Rick Springfield are, as well as his E.G. star persona as reported in the Country Music Bulletin.
● Meshel Laurie ■ It’s taking some time for Nova 100’s new Breakfast show hosts to work in synch. When Radio Confidential tuned in last week, there were significant gaps of ‘dead air’ when there was silent interchange between hosts Meshel Laurie and Tommy Little. Not what you would expect in major capital city broadcasting.
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AFL review ■ What will be the impact on Melbourne radio stations of the AFL building its own in-house capabilities? 3AW, MMM, SEN and the ABC are all broadcasters of the football. AFL chiefs want to copy the US NFL and NBA sporting bodies which package much of their own broadcasts. Former Foxtel and News Corp chief Kim Williams is to join the AFL Commission.
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Dolly miming again ■ Country music queen Dolly Parton knocked them all out with her Melbourne concert but has been accused of miming yet again. Entertainment reporter Peter Ford said on Radio 3AW that Dolly wowed the audience with charisma and a great show but, she did mime some songs and pretended to play the instruments she had.
● Chrissie Swan ■ Whi is the male anchor on the Chrissie Swan-Jane Hall.breakfast radio program on Mix 101.1? He seems to be getting more air-time than the headliners.
● Jane Holmes ■ Listeners tuning into Magic 1278 Breakfast will have heard Kevin John announce that his co-host Jane Holmes is on extended leave. Jane, who also appears on the Neil Mitchell program on
■ Ron Hall and Michelle Guthrie have been re-elected as Directors of Pacific Star Network, the operators of SEN and MyMP. The company’s group revenue was up 3.5 per cent in the last year to $15.1 million, but net profit fell slightly to $1.1 million. The company also operates the Aussie and Kool digital radio stations, and publishes the Inside Football magazine which is believed to have a weekly print run of 18,000 copies.
On This Day Saturday Friday Wednesday Thursday February 19 February 20 February 21 February 22 ■ English actor Dick Emery was born in England in 1918. He died aged 65 in 1983. Actor Lee Marvin was born in New York in 1924. He died aged 63 in 1987. Prince Andrew was born in 1960 (54). Actress Zoe Carides was born in Sydney in 1962 (52).
■ Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt was born in New York in 1934 (89). Actor Sir Sidney Pottier was born in Miami, Florida, in 1927 (87). Football commentator Neil Kerley was born in South Australia in 1934. Actress Lisa Hemsley was born in 1968. She has been a consistent award winner.
■ Actor Kelsey Grammer was born in the Virgin Islands in 1955 (59). American actor Christopher Atkins was born in New York in 1961 (53). US actor William Baldwin, younger brother of Alec, was born in New York in 1963 (51).
■ Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Scouts, was born in 1857. He died aged 83 in 1941. Australian director and producer Ken G Hall was born in 1901. He died aged 92. US actor Robert Young (Father Knows Best) was born in 1907. He died aged 91 in 1998.
Silvie Paladino
ents to find success not only in her own country but also overseas. Silvie began by winning a television talent quest on Young Talent Time at the age of 14. During her career Silvie has won fame as a popular singer and stage performer in shows such as Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, Cats, Hair and Miss Saigon. In recent times Silvie gave us such powerful performances in The Production Company shows such as Chess and the King and I. It is always a joy to see Silvie performing on Christmas Eve in Carols By Candlelight. Silvie Paladino will be performing in the Morning Melodies concert at Hamer Hall on Monday (Feb. 24). - Kevin Trask
Media Flashes ■ Did we really hear the contemporary phrase “Thanks for the heads up” in The Blake Mysteries, starring Craig McLachlan, on ABC-1 TV on Friday? ■ But we did also hear the beautiful singing of talented Australian actress Nadine Garner in the same show. ■ 3AW Nightline co-hostPhilip Brady, accompanied by mate Nigel Williamson, are chasing Aurora Borealis in the Northern Hemisphere. ■ Melbourne’s streets, laneways, landmarks and cultural institutions spanning eight city blocks will burst into life overnight with more than 100 events and activities scheduled for White Night Melbourne on Saturday (Feb. 22). ■ A number of the creative practitioners at the Abbotsford Convent will welcome visitors into their studios to have a glimpse at the spaces, between 12 Noon and 8pm on Thursday, February 27.
Doctor Blake Mysteries ■ The second series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries has begun on ABC1 at 8.30pm on Fridays. This is one of my favourite television shows. The first episode proved itself once again to be the quiet achiever for the ABC, attracting 1.399 million viewers not including catchup. Starring Craig McLachlan (soon to be seen in The Rocky Horror Show) as Dr Blake and a splendid cast of Australian actors this show is well written and beautifully produced. The Doctor Blake Mysteries has been named as a finalist in the drama category at the New York Festival Awards 2014. It is the only Australian drama to be nominated. Season One was a phenomenal success on ABC1 and was also screened in the UK on BBC1. John Wood also plays a regular character in the series. I am very proud that we can achieve such a high standard of drama production in this wonderful series which is filmed on location in Ballarat. - Kevin Trask Melbourne
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Monday Sunday February 23 February 24 ■ Former Australian Prime Minister Sir William McMahon was born in Sydney in 1908. He died aged 80 in 1988. Actor Peter Fonda was born in New York in 1939 (73). English actress Emily Blunt was born in London in 1981 (30). Her work includes Devil Wears Prada.
■ US actor James Farentino was born in New York in 1938. He died aged 71 in 2012. Australian actor, director and producer Phil Avalon (Philip Holbrow) was born in Newcastle in 1945 (69). English actor Dennis Waterman was born in 1948 (66). He acted in Minder as Terry.
Tuesday February 25 ■ Pim O’Brien is 90. Actor Zeppo (Hebert) Marx was born in New York in 1901. He died aged 78. Ian ‘Pee Wee’ Wilson, one of the Delltones, was born in Sydney in 1940 (74). George Harrison, one of The Beatles, was born in Liverpool in 1941. He died aged 58
Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of Jocks Journal for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates. Jocks Journal is Australia’s longest running radio industry publication. Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com
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All the Green Room nominations Alternative & Hybrid Performance For Innovation in Circus There was only one nomination in this category, To be announced on the night For Outstanding Hybrid or Alternative Work 5 Short Blasts - Public - Insite Arts For Outstanding Contemporary Performance In Spite of Myself - Sans Hotel Room Of Regret - Theatre Works / The Rabble Whelping Box - Intimate Spectacle Cabaret For Production Yana Alana - Between The Cracks Tommy Bradson - Tommy Bradson's Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre Gillian Cosgriff - This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Kransky Sisters - Piece of Cake Tripod - Men of Substance ForArtiste Yana Alana - Between The Cracks Trevor Ashley - I'm Every Woman Tommy Bradson - Tommy Bradson's Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre Gillian Cosgriff - This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Geraldine Quinn - Sunglasses At Night: The 80s Apocalypse Sing Along Cabaret For Writing Yana Alana - Between The Cracks Tommy Bradson - Tommy Bradson's Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre Gillian Cosgriff: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Selina Jenkins - Beau Heartbreaker Kransky Sisters - Piece of Cake For Musical Direction Michael Griffiths - Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox Kransky Sisters - Piece of Cake Eddie Perfect and Tripod - Perfect Tripod John Thorn - Tommy Bradson's Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre Shanon Whitelock - Oprahfication For Original songs Gillian Cosgriff - This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Tripod - Men of Substance Oprahfication Beau Heartbreaker The Yummy Burlesque Hour Dance For Concept and Realisation Blizzard - Nat Cursio Co. Conversation Piece - Lucy Guerin Inc. P.O.V. - Lee Serle The Recording - Sandra Parker Dance Zero Zero - Tony Yap, Yumi Umimare & Matthew Gingold For Best Male Dancer Daniel Gaudiello - 'Basilio' Don Quixote and 'The Prince' Cinderella (The Australian Ballet Company) Chengwu Guo - 'Basilio' Don Quixote and 'James' La Sylphide (The Australian Ballet Company) Jayden Hicks - Yours Truly (Collaboration The Project) Alisdair MacIndoe - Conversation Piece (Lucy Guerin Inc.) and Dual (Stephanie Lake & Robin Fox) James Pham - 247 Days (Chunky Move) and Aorta (Stephanie Lake & Robin Fox) For Best Female Dancer Sara Black - Dual (Stephanie Lake) Dalisa Pigrum - Gudirr Gudirr (Marrugeku)
Lauren Langlois - 247 Days (Chunky Move) Stephanie Lake - Conversation Piece (Lucy Guerin Inc.) Leanne Stojmenov - Cinderella (The Australian Ballet) For Best Ensemble Performance Aorta - Stephanie Lake & Chunky Move Blizzard - Nat Cursio Co. Conversation Piece - Lucy Guerin Inc. P.O.V. - Lee Serle Proximity - Australian Dance Theatre Inaugural Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography Nat Cursio - Blizzard (Nat Cursio Co.) Russell Dumas - Dance for the Time Being - Southern Exposure (Russell Dumas) Antony Hamilton - Black Project 2 (Antony Hamilton) Stephanie Lake - Dual (Stephanie Lake) Alexei Ratmansky - Cinderella (The Australian Ballet) For Visual Design Russell Dumas, Simon Lloyd, Margie Medlin & Ysabel de Maisonneuve Design - Dance for the Time Being Southern Exposure (Russell Dumas) Robin Fox (sculpture design) & Jen Hector (lighting design) - A Small Prometheus (Stephanie Lake & Robin Fox) Jérôme Kaplan - Costume & set design - Cinderella (The Australian Ballet) Jonathon Oxlade - Set Design - Skeleton (Larissa McGowan) Thomas Pachaud (video & video engineering), Mark Pennington (lighting design) & Geoff Cobham (design consultant) - Proximity (Australian Dance Theatre) For Composition Robin Fox - Dual (Stephanie Lake) Alisdair Macindoe-Black Project 2 (Anthony Hamilton) Garth Paine - And All Things Return to Nature / TOMORROW (Phillip Adams Balletlab) Jethro Woodward - Skeleton (Larissa McGowan) Independent Theatre For Male Performer Luke Elliot - 'Runt' Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Ash Flanders - 'Cast' The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm /Neon) Rob Meldrum - 'David Kelly' Palace of the End (Theatre Works) James O'Connell - 'Danny' Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Pony Child Theatre) Hayden Spencer - 'Performer' Tall Man (La Mama) For Female Performer Maude Davey - 'Performer' My Life in the Nude (La Mama) Eugenia Fragos - 'Nehjras Al Saffarh' Palace of the End (Theatre Works) Genevieve Giuffre - 'Berdine' Psycho Beach Party (Little Ones Theatre/ Theatre Works) Sarah Hamilton and Justine Campbell (Shared) - 'Performers' They Saw A Thylacine (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Emily Tomlins - body of work For Ensemble Cast of M + M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works/Melbourne International Arts Festival) Cast of Psycho Beach Party (Little Ones Theatre/Theatre Works) Cast of Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Cast of The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm /Neon)
For Set and Costume Design Anna Cordingly and Romanie Harper (Set and Costume)- M + M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works/ Melbourne Festival) Kate Davis (Set and Costume) - The Story of O (The Rabble / Neon) Marg Horwell (Set and Costume) Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Dayna Morrissey (Set) - On The Bodily Education of Young Girls (Fraught Outfit/Neon) Owen Phillips (Costume) and Romanie Harper (Set) - The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm/Neon) For Lighting Design Amelia Lever-Davidson - Dropped (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Lisa Mibus - Yarn (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Katie Sfetkidis - Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Theatre Works) Andy Turner - Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Richard Vabre - Night Maybe (Sassy Red productions/Stuck Pigs Squealing/Theatre Works) For Sound/Music Adele McCarthy (Sound Design)- Not A Very Good Story (La Mama) Michael Pulsford (Music Composition and Performance), Darrin Verhaegen and James Paul (Sound Design and Composition) - M+M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works/Melbourne International Arts Festival) Kelly Ryall (Composition and Sound Design)- Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Jethro Woodward (Sound design)Opera for a Small Mammal (Chamber Made Opera/La Mama) For Direction Daniel Clarke - The Palace At The End (Theatre Works) Prue Clarke - Dropped (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Susie Dee - Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Adena Jacobs - On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (Fraught Outfit/ Neon) Stephen Nicolazzo - Psycho Beach Party (Little Ones Theatre/Theatre Works) For Production M + M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works/Melbourne International Arts Festival) On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (Fraught Outfit/Neon) Savages (fortyfive downstairs) The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm/ Neon) They Saw a Thylacine (Melbourne
Fringe Festival) For Writing Angela Betzien - The Tall Man (La Mama) Patricia Cornelius - Savages (fortyfive downstairs) Emily Collyer - The Good Girl (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Declan Greene and Ash Flanders The Sovereign Wife (Sisters Grimm/ Neon) Sarah Hamilton and Justine Campbell - They Saw a Thylacine (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Music Theatre For Actress In A Leading Role Rachael Beck - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Alinta Chidzey - Singin' In The Rain Esther Hannaford - King Kong Clare Lyon - Pirates Of Penzance For Actor In A Leading Role Rohan Browne - Singin' In The Rain Bobby Fox - Hot Shoe Shuffle David Harris - Legally Blonde For Actor In A Supporting Role Tyler Coppin - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Michael Griffiths - Jersey Boys Matt Holly - Assassins Nick Simpson-Deeks - Assassins For Actress In A Supporting Role Helen Dallimore - Legally Blonde Nancye Hayes - Sunday In The Park With George Christina Tan - Gypsy Jennifer Vuletic - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Christie Whelan-Browne - Singin' In The Rain For Ensemble 'The Tap Brothers' - Hot Shoe Shuffle The King's Men - King Kong Company - The Tap Pack Betty PounderAward For Excellence In Choreography David Atkins & Dein Perry - Hot Shoe Shuffle Jesse Rasmussen, Jordan Pollard, Thomas Egan - The Tap Pack For Musical Direction Michael Azzopardi - Jersey Boys Luke Byrne - Assassins Peter Casey - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang David Stratton - Hot Shoe Shuffle For Design (Lighting) Peter Mumford - King Kong Matt Scott - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang For Design (Sound) Kelvin Gedye - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Peter Hylenski - King Kong Michael Waters - Hot Shoe Shuffle For Design (Set/ Costume) The Car - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Dale Ferguson (Set) - Pirates Of Penzance Roger Kirk (Costume) - King Kong For Direction There was only one nomination in this category. To be announced on the night Opera For Best Director Christopher Alden - Partenope (Opera Australia) Roger Hodgman - Nixon in China (Victorian Opera) Cameron Menzies - The Magic Pudding (Victorian Opera) Alex Ollé - A Masked Ball (Opera Australia) For Best Production A Masked Ball - Opera Australia Nixon in China - Victorian Opera Partenope - Opera Australia For Best Conductor Daniel Carter - Magic Pudding (Victorian Opera)
Andrea Molino - A Masked Ball (Opera Australia) Fabian Russell - Nixon In China (Victorian Opera) For Best Female Lead Csilla Boross - 'Amelia' (A Masked Ball, Opera Australia) Catherine Carby - 'Arsace' (Partenope, Opera Australia) Donna-Marie Dunlop - 'Leonore' (Fidelio, Melbourne Opera) For Best Female In A Supporting Role There was only one nomination in this category. To be announced on the night For Best Male Lead Jósé Carbo - 'René, Count Ankarström' (A Masked Ball, Opera Australia) Bradley Daly - 'Mao Tse-tung' (Nixon in China, Victoria Opera) Barry Ryan - 'Richard Nixon' (Nixon in China, Victorian Opera) Diego Torre - 'Gustav III of Sweden' (A Masked Ball, Opera Australia) For Best Male In A Supporting Role Kanen Breen - 'Emilio' (Partenope, Opera Australia) Michael Honeyman - 'Amonasro' (Aida, Opera Australia) David Parkin - 'Count Horn' (A Masked Ball, Opera Australia) For Best Design Alfons Flores (set), Urs Schönebaum (lighting) - A Masked Ball (Opera Australia) Chloe Greaves (set and costume), Peter Darby (lighting) - The Magic Pudding (Victorian Opera) Andrew Lieberman (set), Jon Morrell (costume), Adam Silverman (lighting) - Partenope (Opera Australia) Matt Scott (lighting) - Nixon in China (Victorian Opera) EnsembleAward There was only one nomination in this category. To be announced on the night Theatre Companies For FemaleActor Alison Bell - 'Marianne' Constellations, Melbourne Theatre Company Julia Blake - 'Vera' 4000 Miles, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Julie Forsyth - 'Mrs Van Amersfoort' The Book of Everything, Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production Zahra Newman - 'Camae' The Mountaintop, Melbourne Theatre Company Alison Whyte - 'Performer' The Bloody Chamber, Malthouse Theatre For MaleActor Jacek Koman - 'Edgar' Dance of Death, Malthouse Theatre Bert LaBonté - 'Dr Martin Luther King Jr' The Mountaintop, Melbourne Theatre Company Brian Lipson - 'Deputy Governor Danforth' The Crucible, Melbourne Theatre Company Ian Meadows - 'Trip Wyeth' Other Desert Cities, Melbourne Theatre Company Steve Mouzakis - 'Lophakhin' The Cherry Orchard, Melbourne Theatre Company For Ensemble The Book of Everything - Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production 4000 Miles - Red Stitch Actors' Theatre ● Turn To Page 34
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Was Shirley Temple really a star for more innocent times? ■ The recent death of Shirley Temple at the age of 85 appears to buck the trend for the tragic child star. In marked contrast to the likes of Judy Garland and Michael Jackson, Temple made the transition from child actress to wife, mother and politician, living a long and apparently fulfilling life. Temple’s career as an actress ended more than 50 years ago, yet she is still best known for her performances as a child in 1930s Hollywood. Born in 1928, by the time she was six she was stealing the limelight in a Fox feature entitled Stand Up And Cheer. The then financially beleaguered Fox decided to take a risk on their diminutive new star and signed her up to a sevenyear contract. It was to prove a wise gamble for both parties. Temple’s films were highly lucrative and played a crucial role in turning round the fortunes of the ailing Fox and bringing it back into profit. Temple herself went on to have a short-lived but hugely successful cinema career. In 1934 alone she made eight films. By 1935 she was topping the annual box office stars list, a position she would then hold for four consecutive years. Her earnings continued to rise and by 1938, aged 10, she was earning the seventh highest salary in the US. So Temple was indeed something of a phenomenon in
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● Shirley Temple as Little Miss Marker in 1933. 1930s America. More photo- capitalist system really could home-spun charm, championgraphed than President work. And of course her film ing of the basic American values of hard work and self-reliFranklin D Roosevelt, she was roles told similar stories. the youngest person to ever apTypically she played an or- ance, and optimism for the fupear on the cover of Time maga- phan or the child of a widowed ture that only a child could conzine. A full-time secretary was parent who, through her own vey, who proved by far the most employed to respond to the determination and unfailing successful of all. So was Temple indeed a 4000 or so fan letters she re- cheerfulness, would ensure ceived each week. happiness for herself and those star for more innocent times? Was she simply the darling To a great extent her appeal around her. lay in the optimism and hope Other child stars such as child of an America in need of she embodied. This was Baby Peggy Montgomery and hope and harmless entertainAmerica in the Great Depres- Mickey Rooney also enjoyed ment? As we watch little Shirley sion and her shiny life story and success in Hollywood during personal achievement told the Depression years. But it was today, all angelic curls and short America that its embattled Temple, with her all-American frock, singing The Good Ship
Lollipop to a group of enraptured adult men in Bright Eyes, we might be forgiven for feeling somewhat uneasy. Modern day sensibilities may well lead us to question her performance and the response of the grown men apparently unable to take their eyes off her. In a review of Wee Willie Winkie published in 1938, Graham Greene expressed similar disquiet, criticising little Shirley’s “dimpled depravity” and the appeal of her “well shaped and desirable little body”. In Greene’s eyes Temple’s films provided a respectable cloak for paedophilic desire. Fox and Temple sued and Greene was forced to pay £3,500 in damages. Yet Temple’s own career perhaps reinforces Greene’s questioning of her innocence. She certainly didn’t fall into stardom by accident. Even before her birth her mother, Gertrude Temple, was preparing her for a theatrical career through “association with music, art and natural beauty”. At the age of four she was already appearing in a series of one reel shorts for Educa-
tional Pictures entitled Baby Burlesks. Temple and other young children sang and danced in fancy, indeed provocative, adult costumes worn over nappies fastened with an outsize pin. So while we mourn her passing and celebrate a life well lived, we should guard against a nostalgia for a more innocent age. This was a child star created at the hands of pushy parents and studio executives whose ambition far outstripped anything we might see on The X Factor and other contemporary talent shows. And as we watch Shirley charm with dimples, curls and ever-present smile, we should not be surprised at any unease we might feel. Box office profit was, after all, the bottom line and the men in raincoats condemned by Greene were paying for tickets along with everyone else. ■ The remainder of Shannon Noll’s Invincible Tour has been postponed due to Shannon having an inner ear infection, says publicists Flourish PR.
All the Green Room nominations ● From Page 33
Exclusive to the Melbourne Observer. First in Showbiz The Shadow King - Malthouse Theatre Super Discount - Back to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company & Malthouse Theatre War Horse (Ensemble of Horse puppeteers) - National Theatre of Great Britain and Global Creatures present in association with Arts Centre Melbourne For Lighting Design Rachel Burke - Solomon and Marion, Melbourne Theatre Company Amelia Lever-Davidson - Fox Finder, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Andrew Livingston (Bluebottle) - Super Discount, Back to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company & Malthouse Theatre Danny Pettingill (Bluebottle) - Other Desert Cities, Melbourne Theatre Company Matt Scott - The Mountaintop, Melbourne Theatre Company
For Set and Costume Kim Carpenter - Set and Costume, The Book of Everything, Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production Anna Cordingley - Set and Costume, The Bloody Chamber, Malthouse Theatre Callum Morton - Set Designer, Other Desert Cities, Melbourne Theatre Company Peter Mumford - Set Design, Fox Finder, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Anna Tregloan - Set and Costume, The Dragon, Malthouse Theatre For Sound/Composition Marco Cher-Gibard (Sound Design) Super Discount, Back to Back Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company & Malthouse Theatre David Chisholm (Composer) and Jethro Woodward (Sound Design) The Bloody Chamber, Malthouse Theatre Steve Francis (Composer/Sound Designer) - Other Desert Cities, Melbourne Theatre Company Iain Grandage (Composer) - The Book of Everything, Melbourne Theatre
Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production. Tripod - Scott Edgar, Steven Gates & Simon Hall (Music, Lyrics and Performance) - The Dragon, Malthouse Theatre
For Direction Neil Armfield - The Book of Everything, Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production Kat Henry - Fox Finder, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Kat Henry - Fox Finder, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Michael Kantor - The Shadow King, Malthouse Theatre Matthew Lutton - The Bloody Chamber, Malthouse Theatre Simon Stone - The Cherry Orchard, Melbourne Theatre Company For Production The Book of Everything - Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production The Bloody Chamber - Malthouse The Cherry Orchard - Melbourne Theatre Company Fox Finder - Red Stitch Actors' Theatre The Shadow King - Malthouse Theatre For Production The Book of Everything - Melbourne
Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of ImFor Production The Book of Everything - Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production The Bloody Chamber - Malthouse The Cherry Orchard - Melbourne Theatre Company Fox Finder - Red Stitch Actors' Theatre The Shadow King - Malthouse Theatre For Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage Beached, Melissa Bubnic, Melbourne Theatre Company The Book of Everything (by Guus Juijer) Richard Tulloch's Adaptation, Melbourne Theatre Company presents A Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image co-production Roam, Adam Cass, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre The Shadow King, Co-created by Tom E. Lewis & Michael Kantor Malthouse with translation by the cast. The Stories I Want to Tell You In Person, Lally Katz, Malthouse Theatre
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‘The Lego Movie’ builds the case for Australian know-how By DAVID COURT Head of Screen Business at Australian Film, Television and Radio School
www.theconversation.edu.au ■ The Lego Movie was released to a legion of fans in the US last Friday and massive box office success. So what do a Hollywood movie and a Danish toy company have to do with Australia? Well, quite a lot as it happens … Sitting high in the credits for the film are Sydney-based visual-effects company Animal Logic and co-producer and co-financier Village Roadshow Pictures. The two companies played entrepreneurial roles in the film’s creation, with Village Roadshow co-financing the US$60 million production and Animal Logic creating the film’s animation in a marathon 2½-year production employing some 250 animators and visual-effects artists at its Sydney headquarters. When people think about Australian films they probably don’t think of production on this scale. We have become used to thinking of the Australian film industry as small and essentially marginal. But 50 years of sustained effort has yielded more than a subsidised enclave of filmmakers and its extraordinary catalogue of films. It has allowed the accumulation of deep expertise in filmmaking which has brought a number of Australian companies to the heart of the global movie business. Persistence has been key. Village Roadshow Pictures was formed in 1997 as an offshoot of the Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and has weathered its share of misses. But its longevity has been rewarded with numerous hits among the 70-plus movies it has co-financed with Warner Bros, among them The Matrix trilogy, Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, Happy Feet and The Great Gatsby. It says a lot about the company that it has succeeded in a business notorious for exploiting “dumb money” (Hollywood’s term for investors seduced by the glamour of movie-making). A story in the Los Angeles Times about the never-ending parade of wannabe Hollywood investors – from Belgian dentists to Wall Street titans – was famously headlined “Chew. Spit. Repeat.” Village Roadshow has not been spat out. Similarly, Animal Logic, formed in 1991 in the very early days of digital, has weathered the tough business conditions that last year sent visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues into chapter 11 bankruptcy right after it won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects on Life of Pi in 2013. Animal Logic’s credits include Babe, Moulin Rouge, Lord of the Rings, House of Flying Daggers and 28 Weeks Later and it has moved into a more active producing role with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, and now The Lego Movie. There is of course a tension in the conjunction of the global movie business and domestic filmmaking. It was played out recently at the AACTAAwards when Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby beat out Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket for Best Film and scooped up 13 awards against its tiny competitor’s one (for Best Original Screenplay). The outcome was billed as “Goliath Slays David” in IF magazine and there was commentary to match, notably from Australian documentary filmmaker Eva Orner, who described the competition between “an overblown, weak, poorly reviewed, massively budgeted studio film” (Gatsby) and “solid, tiny budgeted, meaningful” local films (The Rocket) as “nonsensical and damaging” to the Australian industry. I don’t agree with Orner’s description of Gatsby. Personally, I found Luhrmann’s swaggering appropriation of a core work of the American canon rather thrilling. But she is right that the competition is damaging. We should not be setting big against small and taking sides. Rather we should be thickening the interplay between them, the sharing of skills, resources and ideas. A film industry is an ecosystem and needs all its parts, big and small. It needs tough financiers and top-end visual artists. It needs filmmakers with strong creative ideas. And it needs swaggering impresarios. It also needs the kind of persistence that allowed Village Roadshow to grow from a single drive-in cinema 60 years ago and Animal Logic to morph from a tiny digital start-up. Most of all, it needs the parts to fit together … a little bit like Lego. The Lego Movie is released in Australia on April 3.
BBC America’s Fleming and the trouble with author biopics ■ The first episode of miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond is a very glamorised account of the life of James Bond’s creator, and it is certainly entertaining. But should we lament its deviations from biographical accuracy, its endeavours to frame Fleming the author in terms of Bond the character? Or should we just accept it as another layer of the Bond story, and sit back and enjoy the show? One reviewer, writing for Wired, takes the former attitude, seeing the series as epitomising the problems of recent biopics. While they used to be previously “a mix of entertainment, education and guilt-free voyeurism”, they have become, he argues: A contradictory mix of hagiography and revisionism, lionising their subjects while somehow managing to diminish them in comparison to the products of their imaginations. Understanding any individual book, film, or programme requires an awareness of its place in the media landscape. And any new production is, of course, going to be heavily determined by what has gone before. So it is inevitable that programs or films that return or respond to a franchise as significant as that of Bond will attempt to place themselves within the wider narrative. Such disappointment when the new biopic exaggerates parallels between Fleming and his creation is surprising. The show’s title, even, says it will do so. The Bond franchise in particular carries so much cultural heft, so many familiar motifs, that this addition was never going to unfold any other way. Each episode of Fleming merges a variety of Bond-inthe-making references with moments where that expectation is comically subverted, for example when the unimpressed bartender plonks down a bottle of beer in response to Fleming’s detailed request for a Martini. Likewise, Becoming Jane, the 2007 Austen biopic, was less concerned with scrupulous fidelity to the author’s life story than with bending its basic materials to align the central character to her most famous heroine. Austen, as realised by Anne Hathaway, became more like Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet; a template for whom we were already welldisposed. Had she shown a hint of the milksop Fanny Price from Mansfield Park, or the dozy Catherine Morland of
● Ian Fleming
By JEREMY STRONG Professor of Literature and Film at University of West London
www.theconversation.edu.au Northanger Abbey, we wouldn’t have liked her half as much. I don’t think we should lament the supposed drift from a golden age of educationally sound renderings to a slick but sadly traduced “cult of character”. The biopic has always tweaked the past. Facts and strict chronology rarely stand in the way of the need for a film or television programme to be exciting, coherent, the right length, and saleable. Author biopics are especially problematic since their makers are assumed to have a double duty. There is the expectation of some kind of fidelity to the person’s life-events; an implicit truth-claim in the choice of
subject. And there is the less direct but equally powerful anticipation that the account will somehow connect with stories for which the author is already known. Those are, after all, why we’re interested in the first place. In instances where writers have clearly drawn on personal experience, Hemingway for example, or Fleming, the matter is ripe for a biopic. When they haven’t, when there’s a gulf between the products of their imagination and the circumstances of their production, why should we care? J.R.R. Tolkein may have created Middle-earth, but his life writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings from suburban Oxford was by comparison inevitably quotidian.
A Tolkein biopic has in fact been mooted but will probably have to look to his First World War experiences and subse quent code-breaking work for much in the way of narrative grist. At the height of auteur theory in the 1960s, films were in danger of being scrutinised solely for what they revealed about their makers. Each film was reduced to little more than an additional symptom to be reviewed in order to discern the elusive “truth of the author”. But this wheel may have come full circle. Now, even as it is the authors who become the ostensible subject, they are de-centred by their characters, their life-stories bent into consonance with the fiction franchises they unleashed. And in the case of Fleming and his proto-Bond screen incarnation in Dominic Cooper, viewers should recall that Bond had already changed in his transit from page to screen. The screen Bond most of us know is not wholly the character Fleming created. There are many similarities, of course, but key aspects of the Bond on the page – the incorrigible reading of racial ancestry when presented with a “foreign” face, the sustained and astonishingly pernickety interest in food – never made it to the screen 50 years ago. The Fleming of this biopic is clearly – predictably - brought into alignment with James Bond, but that character had long since ceased to be his, and this expected result shouldn’t be something we waste our time bewailing. Once you accept that it’s significantly disconnected from historical reality, there’s much to enjoy in this biopic. Bond movie aficionados will relish the many references to such recurring motifs as the tropical underwater sequence, the obligatory casino scene, the training exercise, and the skiing sequence. Viewers with a deeper knowledge of the author may also appreciate that, for all the Fleming-as-Bond glamour, it doesn’t shy away from some unpleasant truths either – there’s a whispered reference to youthful gonorrhea. The dimension that it really plays best is the fraught relationship with his controlling mother. Lesley Manville as Eve Fleming stalks her son and his romantic interests with malevolent aplomb. But the author biopic I really want? One that poses the most awkward questions. The story with a real “life” vs “works” dilemma: Woody Allen. I’m not holding my breath.
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Movies, DVDs With Jim Sherlock and Aaron Rourke
What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs
● Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode in the haunting and chilling Hitchcockian thriller Stoker, also starring Jacki Weaver. FILM: STOKER: Genre: Mystery/Thriller. Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Jackie Weaver. Year: 2013. Rating: MA15+. Running Time: 99 Minutes. Format: DVD and BLU-RAY. Stars: **** Verdict: After a young girl's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother, and she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him. To say anymore about the plot would be a crime, only that this American feature debut by Asian director Chan-woo Park is a superbly filmed and executed trancelike Hitchcockian thriller filled with unsettling and haunting imagery along with touches of quirky humour that builds at an almost dreamlike pace to its compelling and unforgettable conclusion. A real surprise! FILM: FOYLE'S WAR - The Complete 8th Season: Genre: Cold War/Mystery/Crime/Drama. Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington. Year: 2013. Rating: M. Running Time: 343 Minutes. Format: DVD. Stars: ****½ Verdict: The Second World War may be over, but the Cold War is looming with the dawning of a new era, and no less threatening or deadly. Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle now finds himself drawn into the complex web of spies, espionage and the global nuclear threat as he, somewhat reluctantly, finds himself in the corridors of MI5. This eighth and latest season of three feature length episodes of 'Foyle's War' are as compelling and entertaining as all those before them. Michael Kitchen is outstanding as the once small town Detective Foyle now faced with a maze of murder, security and counter security at the highest level. Rich in detail, authenticity, production design, intelligently written and brimming with charismatic characters, this one of the best UK series ever produced, a must see and own! FILM: ROOM 237: Genre: Feature Documentary. Cast: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Jili Kearns.. Year: 2013. Rating: M. Running Time: 100 Minutes. Format: DVD. Stars: None. Verdict: Some people have far too much time on their hands. This exploration of hidden meanings behind Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 horror film, The Shining is a guided tour of the absurd to a point of the comical. It's seriousness is mind-boggling, and even though some elements are mildly interesting, overall, this ranks as believable as the directors previous effort on how Stanley Kubrick faked the entire moon landing. But either way, it's fun for all the wrong reasons, so be the judge for yourself. It's interesting to note that long time Kubrick production assistant Leon Vitali says he fell about the floor laughing. The Kubrick estate had nothing to do with the production, and there are no doubts that there are meanings behind many moments in The Shining, but when a poster for a ski resort becomes representative of a monster and a boy's jumper the fake landing on the moon, I think some people should find another hobby. FILM: PHAR LAP - 30th Anniversary Diamond Edition: Genre: Biographical/Sport/Drama. Cast: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris. Year: 1983. Rating: G. Running Time: 117 Minutes. Format: DVD (Collector's Edition) and BLU-RAY (30th Anniversary Diamond Edition). Stars: **** Verdict: 30 years later and it still holds up just as well! Just in case you've missed it, this is the enthralling, rousing and tragic true story of the legendary Australian (New Zealand born) racehorse that became a champion to a country in need during the depression, and the extraordinary relationship between Phar Lap and stable boy and trainer, Tommy Woodcock. this Australian classic nicely handled on nearly every level with superb performances, outstanding cinematography, music score and direction, and as for the horse, Towering Inferno, he is a real scene stealer. Footnote: The legendary U.S. racing horse Seabiscuit wore Phar Lap's saddle following the horse's untimely, mysterious and tragic death in 1932.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
● Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux in the stunning, awardwinning drama Blue Is The Warmest Colour ■ (R). 179 minutes. Now showing in but also how their decisions and beliefs effect those around them, and he selected cinemas. Winner of the top prize at last succeeds here to a staggering degree. Exarchopoulos (Carre Blanc) is year's Cannes Film Festival, this long but involving drama is intimate in a astonishing as the emotionally hunway few modern films rarely aspire gry Adele, and she delivers a mature, to be, delivering an illuminating in- confident performance that never sight into a relationship that feels ab- once feels forced or artificial. Seydoux (Lourdes / Mysteries Of solutely real. The story centres on Adele (Adele Lisbon / Midnight In Paris / FareExarchopoulos), a high school stu- well, My Queen / Mission : Imposdent who is beginning that bumpy jour- sible 4 - Ghost Protocol / The Grand ney of discovering who she is and Budapest Hotel) is equally impressive what she wants from the world. as the older Emma, who becomes the Through her typically teen-minded more level-headed of the two when friends, Adele attempts a romance Adele's lust for love becomes overwith an older male student who is at- whelming and obsessive. With Kechiche's intimidatingly tracted to her, but experiences a sense of unfulfillment that leaves her emo- open and uninhibited approach to the material, if Exarchopoulos and tionally deflected. When Adele glimpses a young Seydoux didn't convince in the slightwoman with blue hair on the street est, the whole endeavour would have one afternoon, it sparks within her two collapsed and fallen into cheap, borthings, intense erotic dreams and an ing melodrama. Their authentic portrayals lift the awkward insecurity, but after an incident with a fellow female school film to an even higher level, due to friend, realises that her sexual orien- the fact we never feel we are watchtation may lie down a different path. ing actors playing scripted roles, but A curious visit to a gay bar intro- just two people meeting and falling in duces us to the mysterious blue-haired love. Kechiche also makes sure the story woman, called Emma (Lea Seydoux), who is definitely attracted to Adele, is intelligently shot, and teamed with and over a period of time we see these cinematographer Sofian El Fani, shows that you don't have to needlessly two connect and fall in love. This passionate affair leads to cer- shake the camera an inch from tain problems, some which naturally people's faces to produce a realistic arise in a relationship, others that oc- touch, and his framing of Adele and cur through Adele's voracious appe- Emma's eventful, tumultuous love affair is handled with care and generostite for love and affection. Co-writer/director Abdellatif ity. Blue Is The Warmest Colour gets Kechiche (The Secret Of The Grain / Games Of Love And Chance) brings under your emotional skin in ways few these two characters to life in an ex- films have, and combined with briltraordinarily vibrant manner, staying liant direction, a delicately-written on the seemingly small details through script (based on the successful comic candid, extended sequences, and book by Julie Maroh), and outstandwatching Adele and Emma develop ingly brave and truthful performances, such a soulful bond with each other is we the audience get to experience one both mesmerising and at times un- of the best films about that elusive and transformative subject ever made. comfortable. How this has not received an OsLike The Secret Of The Grain, Kechiche lingers on his characters car nomination for Best Foreign Film much longer than what audiences (as well as in numerous other categomay be used to, wanting to create a ries) will forever remain a mystery. RATING - ****½. truly three-dimensional outlook on not - Aaron Rourke only who these particular people are,
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Top 10 Lists THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. ROBOCOP. 2. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. 3. LAST VEGAS. 4. 12 YEARS A SLAVE. 5. THE BOOK THIEF. 6. MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM. 7. FROZEN. 8. PHILOMENA. 9. LABOR DAY. 10. SAVING MR. BANKS. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: FEBRUARY 13: ARE WE OFFICIALLY DATING?, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR, ENDLESS LOVE, THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, WINTER'S TALE. FEBRUARY 20: LE WEEK-END, LONE SURVIVOR, NEBRASKA, WOLF CREEK 2, THE LEGEND OF HERCULES. THE DVD TOP RENTAL & SELLERS: 1. RUSH [Biographical/Drama/ Action/Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl]. 2. BLUE JASMINE [Drama/Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard]. 3. THE FAMILY [Action/Comedy/ Crime/Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer]. 4. 2 GUNS [Action/Crime/Mystery/Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington]. 5. RED 2 [Action/Comedy/Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins]. 6. ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA [Comedy/Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney]. 7. ABOUT TIME [Comedy/Romance/Tom Hollander, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy]. 8. RIDDICK [Science Fiction/Action/Vin Diesel, Katee Sackhoff]. 9. WE'RE THE MILLERS [Comedy/ Crime/Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis]. 10. NOW YOU SEE ME [Crime/ Mystery/Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson]. Also: DIANA, RUNNER RUNNER, LOVELACE, GROWN UPS 2, THE WOLVERINE, WHITE HOUSE DOWN, THE BEST OFFER, KICK ASS 2, PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS, PACIFIC RIM, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - The Extended Edition. NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON DVD THIS WEEK: ESCAPE PLAN [Action/Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger]. BIG ASS SPIDER [Action/Sci-Fi/ Horror/Greg Grunberg, Clare Kramer]. THE LIFEGUARD [Comedy/Kristen Bell, Amy Madigan, Martin Starr]. WHY STOP NOW [Comedy/Drama/ Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo]. GENGHIS [Drama/Action/Kim Dung, Thanh Hang]. NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSICS ON DVD HIGHLIGHTS: WOLF CREEK [2005/Horror/John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath]. JACK THE GIANT KILLER [1961/ Fantasy/Kerwin Matthews, Judi Meredith]. NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC DVD HIGHLIGHTS: SHERLOCK: Series 3. SHERLOCK: Series 1-3. To P43
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‘Out Of The Water’ at St Kilda SHOWS ■ Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: Out of the Water (by Brooke Berman) Until March 8 at the Red Stitch Theatre, 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda. Director: Nadia Tass. Bookings: 9533 8082. www.redstitch.net ■ Peridot Theatre: The Hallelujah Girls Until February 22 at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Road, Mount Waverley. Director: Annie Blood. Bookings: 9898 9090 (between 10.00am and 3.00pm Monday to Friday) or peridotboxoffice@yahoo.com.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani), Until February 22 at the Woodbin Theatre, Coronation Street, Geelong West. Director: Kelly Clifford. Tickets: $25. Bookings: 5225 1200 www.geelongrep.com.au ■ Stageworx Theatre: Delicious Divas Until February 22 at 3/ 21 Stud Road, Bayswater. Directors: Julia Roper and Trish Carr; Musical Director: Craig Minty. Tickets: $20. Bookings: http:// www.trybooking.com/EDIN Enquiries: 9751 2886 or theatre 9729 8368. ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani), Until March 1 at 2 Albert Street, Williamstown. Director: Kris Weber. Tickets: $25/$22. Bookings: wlt.org.au/bookings 9885 9678. ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Quartet (by Ronald Harwood) Until March 1 (two Sunday matinees) at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale. Director: Eric Heyes. Bookings: www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Quartet (by Ronald Harwood) Until March 8 at 8.00pm (Sunday matinees at 2.00pm) at The Basin Theatre, Corner Doongalla and Simpson Roads, The Basin. Director: Graham Fry. Tickets: $25, Groups of ten plus $20. Bookings: 1300 784 668 (between 7.00 and 9.00pm only). www.thebasintheatre.org.au ■ Eltham Little Theatre: Natural Causes (by Eric Chappell), Until March 1 at 8.00pm, February 23 at 2.00pm at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1605 Main Road, Research. Director: Mel de Bono. Bookings: 0411 713 095 or www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ La Mama Theatre: The Great Game until February 16 at La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond Street, Carlton. Tickets: $25/$15. Bookings: www.lamama.com.au ■ Chapel Off Chapel: An Afternoon with Actor/Musician George Huxley Monday, February 17 at 2.00pm at 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran. Host: Robert Chuter. Tickets: $5.50 (can be purchased at box office on day). ■ La Mama Theatre: This Is What It Feels Like (by Lauren Bailey and Adam J. A. Cass) February 19 - March 2 (Wed, Sun at 6.30pm, Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8.30pm) at 205 Faraday Street, Carlton. Bookings: 9347 6142 www.lamama.com.au ■ Theatre Works: Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim and John Wiedman February 19 - March 9 at Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda. Director: Alister Smith; Musical Director: Robyn Womersley; Choreographer: Michael Ralph. Tickets: $39 full, $20 concession, $49 Gala Night. Bookings: 9534 3388. ■ Brighton Theatre Company: As Bees in Honey Drown (by Douglas Carter Beane) February 20 - March 8 at the Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, Corner Wilson and Carpenter Streets, Brighton. Director: Peter Newling. Tickets: $23/$21. Bookings: 1300 752 126. ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: The Glass Menagerie (by Tennessee Williams) February 20 - March 8 at 8.00pm, 2.00pm matinees on February 23 and March 8 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Karen Wakeham. Tickets: $25 full, $22 conc. (not Seniors). Bookings: 9457 4117 htc.org.au ■ Australasian Chinese Theatre Company: A Wife's Revenge (by Moni Lai Storz) and Hyperreality (by Lian Low) February 21, 22, 23 at 8.30pm at 11 Cole Street, Brighton. Tickets: $25/ $12. Bookings: trybooking.com/EEUA www.australasian chinesetheatre.com ■ Cardinia Performing Arts Centre (CPAC): Whistle Down the Wind February 22 - March 7 at the Cardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Blvd., Pakenham. Tickets: $32 Adults, $29 Concession, $25 Children U15, Family $100. Bookings: 0407 090 354. ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): The Secret Tent (by Elizabeth Addyman) February 27 - March 9 at the Strathmore Community Hall, Corner Loeman and Napier Streets, Strathmore. Tickets: $20/$15. Bookings: 9382 6284 www.stagtheatre.org/reservations ■ Chapel Off Chapel: Show-Off-At-Chapel February 28 from 10.30pm onwards at 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran. Host: Trevor Jones. A late-night, post-show, foyer showcase of new and loved acts performed for you by emerging or established talents, or those simply game enough to get up and Show-off their skills. Email showoffatchapel@gmail.com with details of two songs you would like to perform. Free event. ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Trap for a Lonely Man (by Robert Thomas) February 28 - March 15 at 29 Burke Road, East Malvern. Director: Kevin Trask. Tickets: $20. Bookings: 1300 131 552.
Ronald Harwood’s Quartet
OTELLO ■ CitiOpera, Melbourne’s premier performance company for new and emerging talent, is celebrating its rebranding with four performances of Guiseppe Verdi’s Otello at the Glen Eira Town Hall, beginning March 28. Based on Shakepeare’s play Othello, the Verdi opera version will showcase upcoming opera talent in Victoria, and celebrate 450 years of William Shakespeare and 201 years of Giuseppe Verdi. Led by maestro Gaetano Colajanni and directed by renowned opera singer Stella Axarlis , CitiOpera’s Otello will bring to life Verdi’s majestic score and Arrigo Boito’s dramatic libretto. CitiOpera is a not for profit organisation promoting Australian talent and relies on funding from grants, charitable organisations and ticket sales. CitiOpera’s mission is to perform opera in its original languages and to excite and inspire audiences. The semi-professional company is under the artistic direction of Dr. Joseph Talia, a famous vocal teacher who enjoyed a long history as a professional tenor singing in operas around Europe for many years. Performances begin Friday, March 28, with further performances on March 29, April 4 and April 5 at 7.30pm at the Glen Eira Town Hall, Glen Eira Rd (corner Hawthorn Rd), Caulfield. Bookings: www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100.
WILD WOMEN OF CRIME
● Eric Heyes ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company presents Ronald Harwood’s Quartet until March 1 at 8pm, with 2.30pm Sunday matinee, at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale. Directed by Eric Heyes (pictured), Quartet is set in a home for retired musicians, where four ageing opera singers reunite in an attempt to raise funds for their stately but financially troubled institution by performing one of their famous quartets, but are distracted by their own rowdiness. Will they be successful? Two are eager, one reluctant and it would be a minor miracle if the fourth actually turns up. Quartet is a bittersweet, funny, witty and heartfelt play, which explores love, regret, unfulfilled ambition and advancing years. Bookings: www.mordialloctheatre.com
SHOWS ■ Sherbrooke Theatre Company Inc.: Play in a Day February 22 from 7.30pm to midnight at Doncaster Secondary College, Church Road, Doncaster. Pay at door. www.sherbrooketc.org.au
AUDITIONS ■ Mooroolbark Theatre Group: Noises Off (by Michael Frayn) February 20 at 7.00pm at the Mooroolbark Community Centre, 125 Brice Avenue, Mooroolbark. Director: Yvonne Miller. Enquiries: 9736 3737. ■ Diamond Valley Singers: Hello Dolly! February 21 from 7.30pm, February 23 from 2.00pm at the Uniting Church, Corner Wensley Street and Main Hurstbridge Road, Diamond Creek. Co-director: Meg Warren; Co-director and choreographer: Tamblyn Smith; Musical Director: Lucas Wilson-Richter. Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/EDLU ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company Inc: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (by Jim Cartwright) February 23 at 11.00am at the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre, Castella Street, Lilydale. Director: Justin Stephens. Enquiries: littlevoice@innocent.com http://lilydaleatc.com/ ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Dixie Swim Club (by Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooton and Jessie Jones) February 23, 24 at 7.00pm at 36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna. Director: Gayle Poor. Enquiries: gaylepoor@hotmail.com ■ Peridot Theatre: Play Readings: One Act Plays February 26 at 7.30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Road, Mount Waverley. Plays for the June One Act Play season include No Strings (by John Tilbrook), By the Half (by Jimmie Chin) and Peter Stone (by Alison Knight). If attending, please contact Alison Knight on a8knight@bigpond.net.au ■ Strathmore Community Theatre Group (STAG): Barefoot in the Park (by Neil Simon) February 26 at 7.00pm, March 2 at 10.00am at the Strathmore Community Centre, Corner Loeman and Napier Streets, Strathmore. Director: Natasha Boyd. Enquiries: 0413 188 513.
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Further signings included forwards James Podsiadly from Geelong to Adelaide as well as Eddie Betts, Carlton’s top goalkicker. When the dynamic Taylor ‘Tex’Walker returns from injury it should prove a strong forward group. Nick Dal Santo to North Melbourne, Ben McEvoy from St Kilda to Hawthorn to join another ruckman David Hale who has proved a raging success in his 68 games since transferring from North Melbourne in 2011. They will make a formidable ruck combination. Billy Longer from Brisbane to St Kilda. Sydney lose Jesse White and Tony Armstrong to Collingwood who decided on a cleanout losing Alan Didak, Ben Johnson, Darren Jolly, Heath Shaw, Dale Thomas all 2010 premiership players and Andrew Krakouer. It could be a tough year for the Pies. The six new coaches are Brisbane Justin Leppitsch, Essendon Mark Thompson, GWS Giants Leon Cameron, Melbourne Paul Roos, St KildaAlan Richardson and West Coast Eagles Adam Simpson. Kevin Sheedy stays with the Giants and has joined the GWS Board of Directors while Sydney premiership player Craig Bolton is a welcome and popular appointment as General Manager AFL NSW/ACT. Craig has been serving in the role since Tom Harley decided on a career change. Congrats are due to Australia Post who continue to sponsor the 18 AFL clubs Community Camps and the local supporters, sponsors and volunteers who work to grow our game at the ‘grass-roots’ level. I attended the Swans night for the BDAFL, Central Coast at Wamberal. Very well presented with the young Auskickers meeting their heroes. - Harry Beitzel
■ Welcome to 2014 – trust you enjoyed a fantastic festive season and like me anticipating an exciting AFL year . In case you have missed the non-stop footy news since the final siren on Hawthorn’s premiership, here is a précis: Congratulations to Adam Goodes on his worthy appointment as Australian of the Year. A tribute which flows on to his club, the AFL and his indigenous race. Congratulations to all the new draftees and ylayers who have transferred to new clubs – all facing new challenges. The top transfer news was Sydney Swans snaring AFL’s biggest name Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin for $9.4 million over nine years. It was a typical Swans ‘cloak and dagger’ deal surprising all the other clubs and the intrusive media moguls who were concentrating on Swans ‘unfair’ COL bonus. Will it be a successful deal? I believe it will be as big as the 1995 signing of Tony ‘Plugger’ Lockett. What a forward line when you add Kurt Tippett, a carefully managed Adam Goodes, a fit Lewis Jetta, experienced goal-kickers Ryan O’Keefe plus contributors Dan Hannebery, Mike Pyke, Kieran and Brandon Jack, Josh Kennedy, Luke Parker, Jared McVeigh and Ben Mc Glynn. Upcoming star Sam Reid now fit again looks likely to play CHB. I’m sure Jeremy Laidler, ex Geelong and Carlton will be an asset down back. Other big names to move include Shane Mumford and the dashing Heath Shaw, appointed vice-captain along with Taylor Hunt will bolster GWS Giants, Paul Chapman to Essendon, Dale Thomas to Carlton, Nick Dal Santo to North Melbourne, Stewart Crameri to Western Bulldogs.
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Eustace inducted into Hall of Fame ■ Veteran Gippsland racing journalist and broadcaster Peter Eustace was inducted into the Greyhound Racing Victoria Hall of Fame at a special function at Crown Palladium. The announcement recognises Peter's years of dedication in promoting racing in the Gippsland community. He called his first race in 1966 and has remained a constant in radio since, calling races for 3CS Colac, 3TR Sale, 3UZ and 3DB Melbourne and others. Today his calls are heard on Gippsland greyhound races through the RSN Network on radio and Sky Channel. Peter has called greyhounds at Traralgon and Sale for more than 40 years and called gallops and trots races in Gippsland for decades. He called the first greyhound race at Traralgon in 1973 and the first trots race there in 1975. He also served as course broadcaster at Warragul and Traralgon trots meetings for many years. In 1987, he called the famed triple dead heat at Stony Creek which attracted nationwide attention. Peter has also been a mentor and support of upcoming talent in race calling during his career. In addition, Peter presented Breakfast on ABC local radio in Sale for many years, has trained greyhounds and has actively promoted all codes of racing in the print media and on local radio for decades. He is a humble man who may not like the fuss, focus and attention that
this award will bring, but it is richly deserved.
in 2010, and one of those pups produced a litter which earned more than $1 million in stakes. Maurie Blair won the inaugural Chairman's Award. Maurie has had an esteemed career involved with the Geelong Greyhound Racing Club. Jenny and Don Graham were also honoured with a Chairman's Award for the dedication to fostering retired greyhounds, and promotion the Greyhound Adoption Program. Zambora Blueboy was announced as Victoria's ‘Most Popular Greyhound’, courtesy of an online voting contest.
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■ On the night of Peter's induction, several other important awards were presented on a gala night. Other names to be added to the Hall of Fame were: greyhounds Shan’s View and Leprechaun Miss – both for their respective breeding exploits along with iconic veterinarian, the late DrAlex Hauler. Xylia Allen was announced as Victorian Greyhound of the Year, while Andrea Dailly was presented with a trophy for the Metropolitan Trainers Premiership. Tony Mills received the Ken Carr Medal in recognition of his years of service to the Cranbourne Greyhound Racing Club and National Coursing Association. Norm Rinaldi won the Ned Bryant Silver Fox Award - Norm imported two female greyhounds from the USA
■ Top Pearcedale trainer Kel Greenough produced the Quinella in Healesville Cup, when Frosty Jay Jay claimed Paw Licking close to the post. Unfortunately a switch to an early morning timeslot owing to Victoria's oppressive heat impacted on crowd numbers at the track. On the same day, the Sale greyhound program had to be cancelled at short notice after fires in the Latrobe Valley forced the closure of the Princes Freeway.
Vic dogs in WA ■ Two feature races in Perth on February 8 were both claimed by Victorian dogs. Keybow for Darren McDonald at Devon Meadows scored in the Perth Cup, collecting a $140,000 winners
cheque. Keybow will now return to Victoria for a crack at the Australian Cup series which kicks off shortly at The Meadows. Born Ali, prepared across town at Lara by Robert Britton, grabbed an $80,000 first prize in the Galaxy, a race for long distance dogs.
At Warragul ■ Warragul will race this Saturday night (Feb. 22), instead of their usual Thursday afternoon program, which is being taken up by Traralgon. The Saturday program will be the last at Warragul until Tuesday, March 11, as the club takes a break from activities owing to the annual Warragul Agricultural Show.
Upcoming race meetings ■ Wednesday: The Meadows (Day), Bendigo (Twilight), Cranbourne (Night), Ballarat (N); Thursday: Traralgon (D), Shepparton (T), Sandown Park (N), Warrnambool (N); Friday: Bendigo (T), Geelong (N); Saturday: Warragul (T), The Meadows (N); Sunday: Healesville (D), Sandown Park (D), Shepparton (T), Sale (T); Monday: Ballarat (D), Geelong (T), Shepparton (N); Tuesday: Traralgon (T), Horsham (N) - Kyle Galley
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Sulky Snippets ■ Astute Invergordon trainer Ian Ward produced a smart type by the name of Shark Port to land the Gallagher Bassett Workers Compensation 2-Y-0 Pace over 1650 metres on debut at Bendigo. Backed as if there was no stopping him, the gelded son of Four Starzzz Shark and Kateleens Passport came out running from outside the front line with Gavin Lang in the sulky to lead his rivals a merry dance, coasting to the wire 4.9 metres in advance of Jodan (three back the markers three wide home turn) also making his first race appearance, as was the third placegetter Kamwood Caesar (four back the markers) in a rate of 2-01.8. More from Len Baker, P44
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Chivalry to sparkle ■ The Mark Kavanagh trained youngster, Chivalry, is my tip to take out the rich Catanach's Blue Diamond Stakes for the two year olds on Saturday (Feb. 22). His run in the Blue Diamond Prelude, was remarkable after coming from stall 15, one from the outside. He began OK, but with no early pace, dropped back and one stage, and was last with only Nostradamus in front of him, who drew the extreme outside. He ran the fastest last 200 metres in 11.82 coming form 11th in the run. At the end Chivalry, finished within two lengths of the winner, the star Sydney colt, Rubick. The distance of 1100 didn't suit either, and he will relish the extra distance of the Final over 1200 metres. From his three starts, he ran very greenly at his first start, but still ran a good second behind I Am The General, beaten by just over a half length. Kavanagh then took him to the Valley, when after being in a bit of trouble flashed home to win by nearly two lengths from the well performed, Bugatty. Chivalry is nicely bred by Street Cry, from World Peace, and is bred to get a bit of distance. Mark is very confident that Chivalry will make a good stayer, and has always had an opinion of the Street Cry breeding lines. I ran into him in the Press Room after Chivalry's slashing run, as he was picking up a copy of the sectional times of the prelude, and he had smile as big as Luna Park. I told him he would have to suck a lemon for six months to get the smile off his face. He just looked at me, never said a word, and just kept smiling. That's enough for me. The winner of the prelude, Rubick, was impressive having to get the job done from start to finish. He was in a piggish mood in the mounting yard, lashing out with his hind legs, and was lucky he didn't connect with any of the atten-
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● Earthquake Photo by Sharon Chapman, Whole Package, 0431 120 579
dants and horses. Another of Ryan's team lent a hand to settle the colt down, and he was quietly walked around to the barrier by his jockey, Brenton Avdulla. I was chatting with Robbie Nicholson, the trackman at Caulfield and queried the reason why he may have snapped, and he said he didn't like other horses behind him. Rubick is stabled at Clinton Mc Donald's stables at Caulfield, and I queried him as to the temperament of the Encosta De Lago colt. Clinton said he has a good manner about him and is quite docile in his stables. It is interesting to note that in the Prelude that he won, between the 800 and the 600 metre marks he ran a sensational 10.42 seconds for the 200 metres. Now that is time someone like the mighty Black Caviar could run. He is going to be very hard to beat, but looking at the big picture, the extra 100
metres of the final will make a bit of a difference. The Mick Price colt, Jibaldi, ran a great race to run second to Rubick, but has blown out the gate for the big one on February 22. One that has a big chance to knocking them all off, is the Hawkes trained, Nostradamus, who ran a sensational race alongside Chivalry, after drawing the car park in 16. His last 200 metres was just a shade slower than Chivalry, clocking 11.94 seconds against Chivalry's 11.82. A big strong colt, Nostradamus, by the American sire, Medaglia d' Oro, from the very good race mare, Leone Chiara. Nostradamus was only having his second start after a brilliant winner at Flemington, and he too will be hard to beat in the classic. All the money for the Blue Diamond has come for the very quick filly, Earthquake, from the powerful Darley team, un-
● Captain Fancypantz Photo by Sharon Chapman, Whole Package, 0431 120 579 der the astute leadership of Peter Snowden. The daughter of Exceed and Excel, also ran great sectionals and although for a couple of strides in the straight looked like she was finding it hard to get past local filly, Eloping. Incidentally the mighty race mare, Black Caviar, is in foal to Exceed and Excel. ■ It was certainly a sad day at Pakenham on However when her Sunday February 9 as the Club said farewell to rider, Damian Bro- the track that had served them well for many a wne, gave her a slap year. Thanks to the Bourke family, racing was esdown the shoulder, she found plenty and has tablished many years ago, the Club was up and been heavily backed running. It was certainly with a tinge of sadness when into favoritism. Both, Rubick and the curtain fell with the running of the last race Earthquake ran the at 5.51pm. The Club started off in 1875, and with the same times that of 1.03.71 for the 1100 closing of the track totaled 139 years in the Sport of Kings. metre trip. The front of the race book said it all. I have always been “We've been doing it since 1875. End of one on the side of the males as I feel a good era, beginning of the next.” The Club has bought a big property at Tynong, colt will always beat a where they are building a new track, trainers’ good filly. quarters, a synthetic track and many amenities for the public. Indifferent weather has held up work on a number of occasions, but the Club hopes to be up and running next year catering for something like 40 odd meetings a year. I have worked for the Club with their presentations for a few years, and it has been my honour to work for such a great team, under Chairman, Don Duffy, their good Committee, CEO Michael Hodge and a fine team in the office, like Hayley Conn, the events manager and the new Manager, Mark Graham. I hope the Club again engages me to help, in the near future, with whatever they would like me to do. Once again a big thanks to a great team at Pakenham, it's been my pleasure, and I hope we work together for a promising future at ● Rubick Tynong. Photo by Sharon Chapman, Whole Package, 0431 120 579 - Ted Ryan
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Sulky Snippets ■ Melton's Ian Hunter has his Ponder/Classy Dream colt The Gingerbreadman racing in great form at present, bringing up two wins in succession by taking the Grant Thornton 3-Y-0 Pace over 2150 metres at Bendigo. Driven as usual by John Justice, The Gingerbreadman after starting from the extreme draw was sent forward mid-race to park in the open for the final circuit, before dashing away on the home turn. Although the effort told over the closing stages, The Gingerbreadman held on to score by a head over Stunning Grin (one/ one last lap) and the well supported Admiral Joy off a three wide trail approaching the final bend. The mile rate 2-00.8. ■ Avenel trainer/driver Juanita Breen was victorious with 4-Y-0 Aces N Sevens/Miss Tina mare Sheza Wildcard in the Harness Thursday Trackside Treats Pace for M0 class over 1720 metres at the Kilmore restricted fixture conducted at Tabcorp Park Melton on Thursday. Settling three back in the running line from gate two, Sheza Wildcard had moved to be one/one approaching the home turn when Denver View ahead of her eased three wide, while Impressive Guy made a surging run out wide to join the leader Isla on straightening and race clear looking all over a winner. Giving chase on turning, Sheza Wildcard finished hard to blouse Impressive Guy in the shadows of the post, with Isla holding down third. The mile rate 1-58.8. It was Sheza Wildcard's first ever placing in 10 race appearances. - Len Baker ● More Sulky Snippets on P44
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G’long stable double ■ Strathfieldsaye trainer Glenn Douglas combined with Josh Duggan to land a stable double at the Geelong HRC fixture held at Tabcorp Park Melton on Wednesday February 12 - Boort Cup winner of last season Daylight Dan greeting the judge in the Geelong @ Tabcorp Park Pace for C3 & C4 class over 2240 metres and most reliable seven year old Falcon Seelster/Dont Temp Me gelding Johnny Tee the Corio Waste Management Claiming Pace over 2240 metres. Daylight Dan, a five year old gelding by Dawn Ofa New Day from Our Madame, began swiftly from gate two to lead out, before immediately being restrained to follow the well supported Jaxon Fella from the nearby stable of Alison Chisholm. Moving to the outside on the final bend, Daylight Dan proved too strong over the concluding stages for the roughie Dainty Cloud (three back the markers), with Jaxon Fella weakening to finish third. The mile rate 1-57.2. Johnny Tee starting from the extreme draw settled with most of the field ahead of him, but was suited by the slick tempo when the leader Longtan Tigerman copped plenty of pressure from both You Lazy Boy and Keeper Of The Fire (three wide), with Keeper Of The Fire eventually striding clear racing for the bell. Gaining a beaut three wide trail home on the back of Corbin Lee ahead of him in the last lap, Johnny Tee prevailed by a half head from Corbin Lee in a rate of 1-59.4, with Red Riverbed (five wide home turn) a half neck away in third place a nose in advance of Keeper Of The Fire. The mile rate 1-59.4. Glenn repeated his afternoon success with another double at Shepparton in the evening - bonny mare Rogers Passion taking the 3rd Heat of the VHRSC Provincial Cup Pace for C1 or better class over 2190 metres and in-form ex-Kiwi gelding Nimble Jack the Mt Prospect Pace for C2 & C3 class over the same distance, both handled by Greg Sugars. Nimble Jack (Falcon Seelster/Toast To Cullen) led from the bell to account for Colby Reilly and Brother Rabbit in a rate of 1-59.1, while Rogers Passion (Art Major/Intrude) scored in almost identical fashion, crossing to lead at the bell in defeating Cool Machrista and Sophies Ideal in 1-57.6.
Started from 20m. ■ At Shepparton, Elmore owner/trainer Jenny Johnson's most consistent Last Sunset/Springfield Paula five year old gelding Sunset Tour brought up two wins in succession by taking the Helen Hastie Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2190 metres in a mile rate of 2-05.5. Driven by Bendigo's Paul Campbell, Sunset Tour starting from a 20 metre handicap settled five back in the running line, with the polemarker Yankee Mara jumping straight to the front as the tapes released. Moving three wide solo in the last lap, Sunset Tour sustained a long run to defeat a game 30 metre equal backmarker Dabbsey which faced the open, with Yankee Mara holding down third.
Easy win at Melton ■ Popular Stanhope owner/breeder Malcolm (Mac) Poole would have been delighted when his highly promising Majestic Son/Front And Square filly Majestic Grace greeted the judge in the CUB 3-Y-0 Trotters Mobile over 2240 metres at the Kilmore HRC fixture conducted at Tabcorp Park Melton on Thursday. Trained at Kyabram by Mick Blackmore and driven by Chris Alford, Majestic Grace trotted to perfection mid-field after starting from gate three on the second line, before letting rip with a rush to assume control at the bell. Although tackled by Peter Hornsby's Wah Keen prior to the home turn, Majestic Grace bounded away on straightening to record an easy 12.4 metre victory at start number four over Wah Keen in a rate of 202.2. The well supported Dieu De Lamour was a further 13 metres away in third place.
Top liners win at Ballarat ■ The rich Tontine Series Finals for both pacers ($30,000) and trotters ($20,000) were held at Bray Raceway Ballarat on Friday (Feb. 14) with two potential top liners winning their respective races. South Australian Derby winner of last season Flaming Flutter was ultra impressive in his victory of the C2 & C3 class pacers feature over 2200 metres. Trained at Bannockburn by Geoff Webster and driven by Greg Sugars, Flaming Flutter a four year old gelded son of Bettors Delight and Twice As Hot raced by former HRV Board member Ron Anderson along with Neil Richmond and Garth Allen (all residents of Geelong), settled three back in the running line from the extreme draw, before moving forward three wide approaching the bell to park outside the pacemaker Manuka Man (gate two). Applying plenty of pressure to the leader prior to the final bend, Flaming Flutter in quarters of 31, 30, 29.2 and 26.8 proved too strong at the finish for Manuka Man in a mile rate of 1-57, with the heavily supported Glenferrie EJ (one/one at bell after leading up the outside division from gate four) third. Exciting Kiwi bred four year old Monarchy/ Sunny Gem gelding Unico Crown snared the major prize in the 2710 metre Trotters Final for T0 or better class after going through the series undefeated. Bounding straight to the front from the pole which was actually the 10 metre mark, Unico Crown trained by Dean Braun at Lara and driven by stable reinsman Chris Alford, bowled along at his leisure, before kicking clear on the home turn, scoring by 5.4 metres over last season’s Breeders Crown victor Quite A Moment off a three wide trail last lap from mid-field in the moving line, Second elect Glenferrie Tycoon finished a meritorious third 4 metres away after racing in the open. Raced by Tasmanian Todd Struthers, Unico Crown which has impeccable manners, returned a mile rate of 2-02, with quarters of 30.3, 29.9, 29.5 and 28.8 for the last mile.
Improved ■ At Lord's Raceway Bendigo on Thursday, Bagshot trainer/driver Warren Cochrane landed the Bendigo Bank Pace Final for C0 class over
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1650 metres with much improved 4-Y-0 Mach Three/Executive Lady gelding Uroc Mman in a rate of 1-57.6. A winner of his heat at Maryborough a week earlier, Uroc Mman repeated the dose by leading throughout from the pole to account for the favourite Lotsa Life which raced outside him, with Die Tryin (one/one at bell) third.
Coasted ■ Astute Invergordon trainer Ian Ward produced a smart type by the name of Shark Port to land the Gallagher Bassett Workers Compensation 2-Y-0 Pace over 1650 metres on debut at Bendigo. Backed as if there was no stopping him, the gelded son of Four Starzzz Shark and Kateleens Passport came out running from outside the front line with Gavin Lang in the sulky to lead his rivals a merry dance, coasting to the wire 4.9 metres in advance of Jodan (three back the markers - three wide home turn) also making his first race appearance, as was the third placegetter Kamwood Caesar (four back the markers) in a rate of 201.8.
No trouble ■ Bullengarook's Graham Lee loves the squaregaiters and snared the Next Race Meet @ Geelong 20th Feb Trotters Handicap for T0 class over 2240 metres at the Geelong fixture held at TabcorpPark Melton on Wednesday February 12 with 4-Y-0 Armbro Invasion/Speedy Jolter gelding Speedy Rambo, recording his first victory in 13 outings. Beginning best from the pole, Speedy Rambo was untroubled to lead throughout from the pole, defeating Tiroroa Tom (barrier three) which trailed after an unsuccess-
ful bid for the lead by 11.9 metres, with My Turn My Turn (three back the markers) a further 29.6 metres away in third place. The mile rate 206.3.
At Shepp. ■ At Shepparton on Wednesday, Bolinda trainer Paul Males combined with Bendigo based Scott Dyer to land the Mud Island Pace for C1 class over 1690 metres with 5-Y-0 Real Desire/ Lady Oren mare Real Performer who put her best foot forward to score. Despite racing wide from gate four, Real Performer parked outside the pacemaker Smart Sista for the final circuit, outstaying her rivals to gain the judge's nod by a head in 1-58.8 over Statelyness which trailed after leading out and using the sprint lane to just fail. Earls Reign (three back the markers) finished close up in third place.
Double ■ Monegeetta's David Miles enjoyed a good night at Shepparton with a stable double - brilliant filly of last season Mindarie Priddy taking the Maria Keys 3-Y-0 Pace over 1690 metres and Art Major/Nellirama gelding Artarama the John Falk Tankworld 3Y-0 Pace over the same journey. Mindarie Priddy first up since August led throughout, making a one act affair of the race to score untouched by 24.2 metres in advance of African Belle which raced in the open and Beau Reve. The mile rate a sizzling 1-54.7 (last half 55.2 - quarter 27.5).
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■ Bare It Bart, Desdon Murruffy, Phyl Crocker, Ya Messin, Glenferrie Tycoon, Daddywho, Quick Draft, Guiltless, Mango Sillhouette, African Belle, Jodan.
Honest home bred ■ Veteran Meltonian Graeme Lang was successful with honest home bred 5-Y-0 Sundon/Make Mine Classy gelding Katmandonny in the Warragul District Light Harness Club Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2205 metres at Warragul on Monday February 10. Driven on this occasion by Rod Petroff, Katmandonny stepped safely from a 20 metre handicap, spending most of the race one/one, with the heavily supported Framed And Hung leading from the 10 metre mark. Easing three wide in the final circuit to be outside the pacemaker on the home turn, Katmandonny had too much quality for his rivals, scoring by 1.9 metres from the leader in a mile rate of 2-06.3, with Morning Fawlty third after trailing the front runner. It was Katmandonny's seventh victory in 37 outings.
Winners at Warragul ■ Lance Justice and stable foreman Jason Hackett were also winners at Warragul, when Kiwi bred 5Y-0 Live Or Die/Shareta gelding Bushi landed the Ken Miller Memorial Pace Final for C0 class over 2205 metres. A winner of his heat on January 31, Bushi repeated the dose after being driven forward from gate four shortly after the start to lead. Always travelling kindly, Bushi held too many guns at the finish to register a 1.6 metre victory in 200.8 over Fuji Fred which raced in the open and Run Clancy Run (four back the markers - four wide home straight).
Rated to perfection ■ Smart Elsu/Little Miss Voodoo 4-Y-0 gelding Im A Peregrine was an impressive all the way winner of the VHRSC Provincial Cup (4th Heat) for C1 class over 2150 metres at Lord's Raceway Bendigo on Thursday. Raced by Toolern Vale trainer/driver Gary Hoban in partnership with harness fanatic Kevin Clark whose family bred the horse, Im A Peregrine began with his usual zest from gate five to lead and rated to perfection, ran out a 6 metre victor from Whos That Guy which trailed in a rate of 1-59.9. Starlight Logan (three back the markers) finished third. No doubt the prize money will assist Gary on his overseas venture in the weeks ahead.
Upset at Ballarat ■ At Bray Raceway Ballarat on Friday, Long Forest trainer Peter Thompson and reinswoman daughter Kate Gath scored an upset victory with 6-Y-0 Jet Laag/Bonnie Blair gelding So It Goes ($42.70) in the VHRSC Provincial Cup(5th Heat) for C1 class over 2200 metres. Restrained at the start from gate six, So It Goes settled a long way off the leader Wounded, before easing three wide in the last lap to follow both Desdon Murruffy and Miss Dilly. Sweeping home wide out in the straight, So It Goes registered a 2.7 metre victory over the favourite Vox Populi which didn't score up giving away a huge start and Gabbys Sweetheart in a rate of 1-59. - Len Baker
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