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Kate Fischer
Tziporah Atarah Malkah (born Katherine Helen Fischer; 30 November 1973) is an Australian model, actress and TV host. Early life Katherine Helen Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of Pru Goward and university economics lecturer Alastair Fischer Ph.D. She is the third eldest of ten children. Malkah spent the best part of a year in Pune, India, and Reading, UK, in 1978 with her family when her father took his sabbatical. Once back in Adelaide, Malkah attended Glen Osmond Primary School. When Malkah was nine, her parents' marriage ended, and her mother left the family home, her husband and the children in Adelaide, and moved to Sydney. When the matter of the children came up in family court, her mother said that she did not want her children. During this year Malkah continued to attend Highgate Primary School in Adelaide A year later her mother moved in with David Barnett in Canberra. It was at about tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Neill
Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he is regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. Born in Northern Ireland to an English mother and New Zealand father, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film ''Sleeping Dogs (1977 film), Sleeping Dogs'' (1977), which he followed with leading roles in ''My Brilliant Career (film), My Brilliant Career'' (1979), ''Omen III: The Final Conflict'', ''Possession (1981 film), Possession'' (both 1981), ''Evil Angels (film), Evil Angels'' (also known as ''A Cry in the Dark'') (1988), ''Dead Calm (film), Dead Calm'' (1989), ''The Hunt for Red October (film), The Hunt For Red October'' (1990), ''The Piano'' (1993), and ''In the Mouth of Madness'' (1994). He came to international prominence as Alan Grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dust Off The Wings
''Dust Off the Wings'' is a 1997 Australian film about a young man struggling to come to terms with his impending marriage. Production The film was partly inspired by Lee Rogers' marriage to Kate Ceberano in 1995. The film was shot on digi Betacam in 17 days over several weekends in April and May 1996 at Bondi Beach Bondi Beach () is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bondi Beach is located east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of .... Two-thirds of the film was scripted the rest was improvised.Andrew L Urban, "DUST OFF THE WINGS", ''Urban Cinefile'' Retrieved 12 November 2012 Release Rogers announced plans to make two sequels ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Burke
Donald William Burke (born 16 July 1947) is an Australian television presenter, television producer, author and horticulturist. He is best known as the longtime host of ''Burke's Backyard'', a lifestyle program produced by his wife's company CTC Productions, which ran for 17 years from 1987 to late 2004 on the Nine Network. He was also responsible for the creation of garden makeover program '' Backyard Blitz'', starring former colleague Jamie Durie. Career In 2004, '' Business Review Weekly'' listed Burke among its top 50 entertainers list, saying he earned an estimated A$7.2 million in 2004. Burke is a professional horticulturist and former board member of Landcare Australia and has been active in a number of other public roles. Burke spent 20 years working on his own home and garden. He has been an outspoken critic of numerous environmental advocacy groups. From July 2005 to late 2008, Burke was the Chair of the climate-change-denying Australian Environment Foundation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards
The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards. The Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the ''Most Popular Personality on Australian Television'' for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ceremony on 17 occasions, with a constant run from 1966 until 1980 and as co-host on three ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Brown
Bryan Neathway Brown AM (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include '' Breaker Morant'' (1980), '' Give My Regards to Broad Street'' (1984), '' F/X'' (1986), '' Tai-Pan'' (1986), ''Cocktail'' (1988), '' Gorillas in the Mist'' (1988), '' F/X2'' (1991), '' Along Came Polly'' (2004), ''Australia'' (2008), '' Kill Me Three Times'' (2014) and '' Gods of Egypt'' (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries '' The Thorn Birds'' (1983). Early life Brown was born in Panania, a south-western Sydney suburb, the son of salesman John "Jack" Brown and Molly Brown, a pianist in the early days of the Langshaw School of Ballet and a drama student at the Edith Paull Drama School, who also worked as a house cleaner. He grew up with his younger sister, Kristine, in Panania, and beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Known for often playing eccentric roles on both stage and screen, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Geoffrey Rush, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, making him the only Australian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, in addition to three British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Rush is the founding president of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. Rush began his professional acting career with the Queensland Theatre, Queensland Theatre Company in 1971. He studied for two years at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq starting in 1975. Rush starred in international productions of ''Oleanna (play), Oleanna'', ''Waiting for Godot'', ''The Winter's Tale'' and ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. He made his Broadway theatre, Broadway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good News Week
''Good News Week'' is an Australian satirical panel game show hosted by Paul McDermott that aired from 19 April 1996 to 27 May 2000, and 11 February 2008 to 28 April 2012. The show's initial run aired on ABC until being bought by Network Ten in 1999. The show was revived for its second run when the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused many of Network Ten's imported US programs to cease production. ''Good News Week'' drew its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organisations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show opened with a monologue by McDermott relating to recent headlines, after which two teams of three panellists competed in recurring segments to gain points. The show has spawned three short-lived spin-off series, the ABC's ''Good News Weekend'' (1998), Ten's ''GNW Night Lite'' (1999) and Ten's skit-based ''Good News World'' (2011). Format ''Good News Weeks format is based on that of the British program ''Have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot (although an increasing number of such series have their first episodes titled "Pilot"). On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libbi Gorr
Lisbeth Joanne "Libbi" Gorr (born 24 March 1965) is an Australian broadcaster working in both TV and radio. Gorr is also an author, voice artist, writer and performer. She first came to prominence with the satirical television character that she created called " Elle McFeast". Early life Gorr was born in Melbourne into a Jewish Australian famil grew up in Murrumbeena and was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College. She began working in comedy while she was an arts and law student at the |
Elle McFeast
Elle McFeast is an Australian television character created by comedian Libbi Gorr. The character appeared in several shows during the 1990s, beginning with the ABC series '' Live and Sweaty'' in 1991. The character became the host of the show in 1993. This was followed by her own chat show in 1995 called ''McFeast Live''. Gorr made a series of ABC specials as McFeast, including ''Breasts'', ''My Big Bottom'' and ''Power Pussy,'' during which she interviewed Australian politicians, sports personalities and celebrities. In 1994, she won a gold medal at the New York Festival of Television for ''Sex, Guys and Videotape''. Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards are a set of annual ceremonies presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Point
''Echo Point'' is an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap ''Home and Away'' on the Seven Network. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery. Production In February 1995, John Burfitt of ''TV Week'' reported that production on the 26-part series was set to commence in Sydney on 3 April. The series was originally known as ''Bells Point'' and billed as "''E Street'' meets Summer Bay". Burfitt confirmed that casting auditions were underway for "a strong teen cast, equally balanced with experienced, mature actors." The series centres on a small community in a settlement across the bay from a "thriving" metropolis. Four families – the Lomans, Brennans, Wintons, and O'Connors – provided t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
