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Performance Quentin Tarantino will visit Sydney to attend the premiere of his critically acclaimed new film Django Unchained. The premiere will be held on Monday 21 January at the State Theatre in Sydney. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is set in America’s South two years before the 1861-1865 Civil War. Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx is Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive. With an all-star cast including Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonard DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, John Jarratt, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins and Jonah Hill, Django Unchained will be released in Australian cinemas on 24 January.
Director and screenwriter Tarantino uses criminals as main characters in his movies. His films are often marked by graphic violence, offbeat dialogue and philosophical concerns. He often writes and acts in the films he directs. He made his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs (1992) and followed up with Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award for best original screenplay, and Jackie Brown (1997). The official Django Unchained film soundtrack is available digitally online and on CD in stores from 18 January. *** THE international award-winning hit Legally Blonde The Musical is coming to the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in May for a strictly limited season (tickets on sale now). It was a smash hit musical in New York for two years and for three years in London where it won the coveted Best New Musical Olivier Award. Legally Blonde The Musical is bubbling over with fun and has had audiences across the globe, shimmying in their seats, weeping with laughter
A Grain of Salt WE look forward to 2013 with an appetite: a Collingwood grand final and two political parties at one another’s necks. One leader will win, one lose but, eventually, as always, we shall feed on the remains. Tony is on a hiding to nothing. He must win. His hopes may rest on News Limited, sensible policies, swinging voters, muckraking and the Julia haters. Julia’s hopes rest on big education and disabilities spending, the female clique, the May budget goodies, unemployment figures and forgetting the loss of the budget surplus fantasy. Five years of Labor government and we still have a healthy middle class welfare system and a pathetic lower income system far from being a “fairer Australia”. Will Tony be any different? Populist philistines with sadly, little difference between the two. Greens darling Sarah Hanson-Young will pop her head in occasionally, suggesting we plant a tree. I’d back Collingwood before Julia but whatever, fascinating. Happy 2013. Don’t lose the two Ms when contemplating stress: music and mirth. And try to be nice...to waitresses. *** IT can be a pleasant feeling when we get a run of a few days with the temperature around the 21 to 25 mark. No heating or cooling required accompanied by the subconscious feeling that we are saving money which can be a relief at this time of year. It’s then you realise the truth that these power companies are privately owned and even if the government bleeds them they still have to answer to their shareholders so management can get their bonuses. What they appear to lose on the swings they adjust on the roundabouts. Service charges, whatever. Usage down, adjusted as per required profit ratio. Remember when the water bill would arrive at the exorbitant fee of $15 a year? My water bill arrives now informing me my usage is equal to a normal three-person household and I live in a mini unit with a micro garden and go very easy
on the showers. Nil problemo. Add the necessary margin onto the sewerage, or parks, gardens and potholes. The proposed South East Water eight-story head office building at Kananook Creek Boulevard in Frankston has to be paid for somehow. “A place to come together, with a wide public verandah for everyone to enjoy...Having a company of water experts in our city (700 staff) can only help with revitalising our creek,” says Frankston City Council CEO Dennis Hovenden. Like cows, we can be lead upstairs, but never down. *** Sometimes the obvious has to be repeated in a vain attempt to get it through thick skulls. The death of a young male around 2am on New Year’s Eve, highlighted by television and newspapers, carried with it the inference that Rye represents some type of risk area above the norm. This is far from the truth. I ask myself “Why did they ban the carnival on New Year’s Eve?”. Because it attracts troublemakers from various areas of the peninsula after 10pm. Rye is no better or worse than any other beach spot from Port Melbourne to Frankston, other than after 10pm when the carnival is running between Christmas Eve and Australia Day. For the other 99.9 of the time it’s heaven on a stick, unless you’re an unemployed single mother. Why not ban this carnival altogether? Some parents and kiddies enjoy the experience between 5pm and 8pm but then it descends into a seedy hot spot for various types of weirdoes. Get rid of it, or at the very least pay for much wider CCTV coverage. *** I FEEL the need to “hark” back to the Carols by Candlelight event in Melbourne on Christmas Eve. We all loved Bryan Naylor, an institution was Bryan. Channel Nine then brought in Ray Martin from Sydney. Eventually, we decided he was a nice bloke so we graciously accepted him. And now? No Ray and Channel 9 transport another couple in from Sydney. Haven’t we got anyone? I un-
By Cliff Ellen derstand the bloke won a gold Logie for reasons unknown to me, also that he’s a pleasant fellow. Good for him. Send them both back. No wonder Nine went broke. And while you’re finding a Melbourne compere give Denis Walter a rest next time, and in 2014. Yes I know, Denis is also a nice bloke and from Melbourne, or Geelong. OK. 2013 only as a rest for Denis, ditto with young Delta G. We thank God for tenor David Hobson and his wonderful Holy City to conclude the evening. *** Good friends Gina Rinehart and Johnny Singleton are sniffing at The Age newspaper. Is it an ill wind that blows nobody, except them, any good?...Yeah, yeah I know: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. Give me Mary Astor, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Durante and Humphrey Bogart any day... “There will be a single, simple definition of discrimination as “unfavourable treatment” and a simple defence of justification.” Double Dutch Nicola... Peter Slipper cleared. Who would have guessed?...Cliff Richard is booked for a fourth concert in Melbourne. I can’t wait...A RAAF digger blamed fatty foods for prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction and succeeded in getting a pension. I’ve long been suspicious of those five months I “served” as a navy nasho...I like the eHarmony dating commercials. It’s all about “getting yourself out there” which is tempting but they don’t explain where “there” is?...Peninsula Health’s Older Wiser Lifestyles program says “No one is saying don’t drink. Alcohol is a natural social lubricant, it improves the food experience. It’s a colourful spread in Australian society”. Nice... A man can know every mystery in the Universe, but he can never know the mystery of his wife”...Hooroo... cliffie9@bigpond.com
and swooning over the UPS delivery guy since the first Broadway production in 2007. Packed with an all-star Australian cast including Lucy Durack (Wicked) as Elle Woods, Rob Mills (Wicked, Young Talent Time) as Warner, David Harris (Miss Saigon, Boy from Oz) as Emmett, Helen Dallimore (Into the Woods) as Paulette and Erika Heynatz (Next Top Model) as Brooke Wyndham. Season commences Thursday 9 May at the Princess Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne. Tickets 1300 111 011. www.legallyblonde.com.au *** DR James Oswald Little AO, Jimmy Little, rose out of the absolute depths of Aboriginal poverty to become one of the most loved and respected musicians of his generation. A proud Yorta Yorta man born on the banks of the Murray River in south eastern Australia in 1937, he received many awards and citations in his long career including entry to the ARIA Hall of Fame, the APRA Ted Albert Award, the Order of Australia, honorary doctorates from QUT, Sydney University and The Australian Catholic University and in 2004 he was named one of Australia’s 100 National Living Treasures. On the occasion of his death in 2012 he was given a state memorial service at The Sydney Opera House and flags flew at half-mast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, condolence motions were passed in the national and state parliaments and many members rose to speak fondly of their personal encounters with this remarkable Australian and his gentle journey from obscurity to national icon. Warner Music Australia and Festival Records are proud to present the release of two new titles by the late, great Australian singer Jimmy Little. Available now is the single disc collection entitled Treasure: The Very Best of Jimmy Little 1956-2011 and out 18 January is the three-disc collection Songman.
The two titles are the first new Jimmy Little By releases since Gary his passing in Turner April 2012. Treasure spans Little’s work from the 1950s through to the 21st century and features 15 perennial tracks including Yorta Yorta Man, Randwick Bells, Winterwood, Mysteries of Life and Royal Telephone. Songman is an ambitious 3-disc set that brings together freshly-remastered versions of Jimmy’s landmark comeback album Messenger and its follow-up Life’s What You Make It as well as some wonderful material from the archives. In 2006 he founded the Jimmy Little Foundation to raise money and promote on a permanent basis the message of healthy nutrition and lifestyle for indigenous Australians. Jimmy died in his sleep at the family home in Dubbo, NSW on 2 April 2012, aged 75. *** THE Seekers - Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley - have reunited for ‘The Golden Jubilee Tour’. Together, they will take fans down memory lane with stories, memorabilia, messages of congratulations from music industry contemporaries, and video clips on the big screen. As the centrepiece of their two-hour performances, the legendary group who put Australia on the global pop music map, will raise the roof with their chart-topping hits I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over, Morningtown Ride, Georgy Girl, I Am Australian, and other unforgettable crowd favourites. The Seekers will appear at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, Tuesday May 14. Bookings 1300 182 183 or 132 849.
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