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Mac Gudgeon
Mac Gudgeon (2 March 1949 – 25 May 2023) was an Australian film and television screenwriter. Biography Career Gudgeon was perhaps best known for writing the television mini-series'' Waterfront'', '' The Petrov Affair'', '' Killing Time'' and for co-writing ''The Secret River''. Gudgeon's film screenwriting include '' Last Ride'' and he co-wrote the screenplays for ''Ground Zero'', '' The Delinquents'' and ''Wind''. Gudgeon served as president of the Australian Writers' Guild from 1998 to 2000, and received a lifetime membership in 2002. Gudgeon died on 25 May 2023, at the age of 74. Among those to pay tribute to Gudgeon after his death were Australian Writers' Guild president Shane Brennan, former president Jan Sardi Jan Vittorio Sardi (born 1953) is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997, he was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for ''Shine (film), Shine''. He wrote ... and fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wind (1992 Film)
''Wind'' is a 1992 American sports drama film directed by Carroll Ballard and starring Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey and Cliff Robertson. Plot The film is centered on the America's Cup series of yachting races and uses them as a backdrop for both an action/adventure and a romantic storyline. Cup events depicted in the film A host of events that occurred in the 1987 America's Cup held off Fremantle Australia were translated into film and presented as events occurring to the characters in the movie, including the following: * Will Parker striking the buoy while rounding the final mark was taken from Chris Dickson's final race against Stars & Stripes 87 in the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals. Kiwi Magic was just six seconds back of Dennis Conner's boat when Dickson made his only major mistake of the summer, striking the buoy while rounding the final mark. He was obliged to re-round, ending all hope of catching Stars & Stripes 87. * Jack Neville spearing the "Whomper" was taken fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Television Writers
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2023 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sardi
Jan Vittorio Sardi (born 1953) is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997, he was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for ''Shine (film), Shine''. He wrote and directed the 2004 film ''Love's Brother''. He adapted the novel by Nicholas Sparks for ''The Notebook'' (2004). Sardi also adapted Li Cunxin's memoir for the film ''Mao's Last Dancer (film), Mao's Last Dancer'' (2009) and the miniseries ''The Secret River (TV series), The Secret River'' (co-written with Mac Gudgeon), based on the novel by Kate Grenville. Writer * ''Moving Out (film), Moving Out'' (1983) * ''Street Hero'' (1984) * ''Breakaway (1990 film), Breakaway'' (1990) * ''Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series), Mission: Impossible'' (1990) (S2E30: “Deadly Harvest) * ''Halifax f.p.'' (1995) (S1E3: “Lies of the Mind) * ''Shine (film), Shine'' (1996) * ''Love's Brother'' (2004) (also director) * ''The Notebook'' (2004) (adapted n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Brennan
Shane Brennan (born January 20, 1957, in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian television writer and producer, best known as the executive producer of the CBS drama '' NCIS'', as well as the creator of the ''NCIS'' spin-off series, '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. Brennan's other television credits include '' Special Squad'', '' The Flying Doctors'', '' All Together Now'', '' King & Maxwell'', '' State Coroner'', '' Stingers'', '' Flipper'', '' CSI: Miami'', and '' Summerland''. Beginning as a journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), by 1981, he had abandoned journalism for television scriptwriting. From the mid-1990s he worked on American cable shows shot in Australia – of which ''Flipper'' is the only named example in the IMDb. That gave him exposure, friends in the United States and an agent. As he said, "I started travelling backwards and forwards for about five years – usually four or five times a year, coming for two or three weeks at a time, do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Writers' Guild
The Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) is the professional association for Australian performance writers for film, television, radio, theatre, video, and new media. The AWG was established in 1962, and has conferred the AWGIE Awards since 1968, the Monte Miller Awards since 1972, and the John Hinde Award since 2008. The Australian Writers' Guild has been representing Australian screenwriters, playwrights, radio writers, comedy writers and digital media writers since 1962. It was created for writers by writers, with the council consisting of members within their respective performative industries. It aims to promote the Australian cultural voice within the arts. The guild recognises through their mission statement that performance writing and performance writers "thrive as a dynamic and integral part of Australian storytelling, shaping, reflecting and enhancing the Australian cultural voice in all its diversity." This is exemplified through AWG's work as a political voice throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Delinquents (1989 Film)
''The Delinquents'' is a 1989 Australian coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Chris Thomson from a screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Mac Gudgeon, based on Criena Rohan's 1962 book of the same name. It is the first film by Village Roadshow Pictures. It stars Kylie Minogue (in her feature film debut) and Charlie Schlatter as the main characters Lola and Brownie, and was filmed in the Queensland locations of Brisbane, Maryborough and Bundaberg. The film was released in Australia on 21 December 1989 to mixed reviews from critics. It grossed $3,370,650 at the box office in Australia. An accompanying soundtrack was also released. Plot Lola and Brownie are teenagers in 1950s Bundaberg, Australia. They fall in love, but because of their age they must fight their parents and welfare, who try to keep them apart. Lola falls pregnant and the couple run away so they can keep their baby. However, Lola's mother and the police find them and take Lola home. Brownie joins the crew of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
