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Russell Crowe confirms talks to star in A Star Is Born

February 6, 2010 at 12:20 pm

Russell Crowe - to star in A Star Is Born?

Russell Crowe - to star in A Star Is Born?

It’s true. Russell Crowe has been approached to star in the remake of A Star is Born with multi-Grammy winner Beyonce.

“Having a casual chat about it; nothing definite,” Crowe told me in a email on Friday. “Very casual conversation at producer Billy Gerber’s request.”

The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Warners Bros resurrected the project after Beyonce restated her interest in the movie the studio previously released in 1976. The ’70s version starred Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

Beyonce to star in the remake of A Star is (re)Born

Beyonce to star in the remake of A Star is (re)Born

Gerber produced the 2008 gritty drama Gran Torino, which starred Clint Eastwood as a disgruntled war veteran intent on cleaning up his neighbourhood. [click to continue…]

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Queen KAK gets a Saturday show in 2010

December 18, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Kerri-Anne Kennerley, host of her morning show on Channel 9

Kerri-Anne Kennerley, host of her own Monday-Friday morning show on Channel 9

While Channel 10 has lost 9am With David and Kim with the exits of co-hosts David Reyne and Kim Wilkins, the carpet strollers over at Channel Nine are working on extending Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s morning show.

Word from inside the Nine corridors is that Tom Malone, the wunderkind executive producer of Today and Mornings with Kerri-Anne, will find an hour-long time-slot for a “best of” show to be broadcast on Saturdays in 2010. [click to continue…]

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Friendly Fire author C.D.B. Bryan dies

December 17, 2009
Cover of C.D.B Bryan's best selling book, Friendly Fire

The literary world lost a true legend this week with the death of critically acclaimed author and journalist, Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan, the author of Friendly Fire, one of the most seminal books about the Vietnam War.
Better known as C.D.B Bryan, the author died at his home in Connecticut on the east coast of the [...]

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Boxer Danny Green to tackle Sydney to Hobart yacht race

December 11, 2009
boxer Danny Green at the Loyal Foundation charity lunch December 11 2009

It took Danny Green just two days – and a pile of changed nappies and school runs with his kids Archie and Chloe – to come back to earth from his brilliant 2-minute fight with American Roy Jones Junior.
Green told me earlier today that he couldn’t wait to get home to Perth after spending nearly [...]

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Malcolm Turnbull – still “leader” of the Opposition

December 9, 2009
The sign in Malcolm Turnbull's office one week after being ousted from the LIberal Party leadership

A week is a long time in politics, but it’s not long enough for the Liberal Party’s new bomb-chucker, Malcolm Turnbull, to build a bridge and get over his lost leadership.
A quick stroll by his electoral office on the borders of Edgecliff, Double Bay and Woollahra yesterday revealed that while Tony Abbott was shuffling his [...]

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Joel Edgerton is on fire

December 3, 2009
Joel Edgerton as Stanley Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams classic, A Streetcar Named Desire

Sydney actor Joel Edgerton is on fire – and so is Cate Blanchett, but we already knew that.
The New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley has just anointed him for his “excellent” performance alongside massively praised Cate Blanchett in the Tennessee Williams epic, A Streetcar Named Desire.
(The play was universally applauded by critics, including John McCallum [...]

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