Sandra Lee

Why Nike’s new ad with Tiger Woods fails

April 9, 2010
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Here’s why Nike’s new 30-second advertisement featuring a robotic-looking Tiger Woods and the voice of his late father, Earl, is wrong on so many levels.
Here’s what the late Earl says:
“Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive to promote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out [...]

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Footballer Ben Cousins splits with agent

February 18, 2010
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Controversial Australian Rules Footballer Ben Cousins and his long-time manager Ricky Nixon have parted company.
Nixon, who has looked after various business affairs and sponsorship deals for Cousins for more than a decade, told me today that he and the champion Richmond midfielder severed their professional relationship two weeks ago.
He refused to comment on the reasons [...]

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Russell Crowe confirms talks to star in A Star Is Born

February 6, 2010
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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 [...]

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Queen KAK gets a Saturday show in 2010

December 18, 2009
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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 [...]

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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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