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Saturday, 18 April 2015
You've got to have faith: New book reveals the two sides of legendary singer
THE singer treated his personal life like his performing one - as a part to be played, a new book reve...
School sex scandal that still divides America
AFTER teacher Mary Kay Letourneau was imprisoned for raping her 12-year-old pupil she married him. Now she says it's time to let her back into the classr...
Robin Williams the posthumous star of '3 Still Standing'
TORONTO (AP) " Before the late Robin Williams enthralled television audiences on "Mork and Mindy," he already was a star on the 1970s stand-up comedy circuit " and by the '80s was a leading light for a new stand-up generation.The...
BBC bosses in desperate bid to keep Richard Hammond and James May on Top Gear
BBC bosses are desperately trying to persuade Richard Hammond and James May to stay on Top Gear following Jeremy Clarkson's sacki...
iZombie: Brain food for zombie fans
Somehow, despite being partial to a jolly good zombie romp (or rampage), I've only just caught up with iZombie (TVNZ OnDemand) which I can only put down to having had my, er, fill of blood and gore and autopsies and weirdness on...
Letters from the battlefield
Michael Williams' Symphony No 1 ( Letters from the Front ), which the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play in its Spirit of Anzac programme on Thursday, is not the first time the Hamilton composer has worked with the orchestra.In...
T.J. McNamara: Favourites past and present
One sound reason for visiting Philadelphia is to see the famous painting The Gross Clinic by one of the city's favourite sons, Thomas Eakins . It is at the imposing Philadelphia Museum of Art.The neo-classical building, brown rather...
NZ Dance's stirring tribute to the Anzacs
The Anzac centenary has brought thoughts of warfare, its gallantry, violence and terrible loss to the forefront of many peoples' minds. But Shona McCullagh, choreographer, arts laureate, Woman of Influence (Westpac and Fairfax Award...
Emily Perkins takes on A Doll's House
The interview with Emily Perkins starts off like most others. A couple of years ago, Perkins moved from Auckland to Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, so...
Wild Ireland's Christine Bleakley:'I like to do the odd mad thing once in a while'
THIS MORNING presenter Christine Bleakley chats to Saturday about her new ITV travel series, her career aspirations and breaking Ameri...
George Lucas to Colbert: Why aren't you replacing Stewart?
NEW YORK (AP) " Stephen Colbert came to the Tribeca Film Festival to interview filmmaker George Lucas, but the "Star Wars" creator had a question of his own."The perfect choice to replace that Jon Stewart fellow would have been...
Mother Karen Gaynor thrown in cell for 6 hours for pruning next-door's tree
A MOTHER-OF-TWO was arrested, held in a police cell for six hours and put on trial – accused of over-pruning next-door’s tr...
David Cameron brings back Margaret Thatcher’s vote winning right-to-buy policy
TOWARDS the end of last year a rather unremarkable ground-floor flat with a price tag of £1million went on the mark...
Hugh Bonneville on saying goodbye to Downton: 'It will leave a huge hole in our lives'
IN A case of art reflecting life, Hugh Bonneville tries to avoid a ‘fracas’ in the new series of ...
MasterChef's Greg Wallace: 'Cooks who learn the fastest win'
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