There are two type of people in the universe. Those who want to be travel writers – and the Third World. To help you realise that hotly shared ambition, here’s Part B of the Q&A: 3 Best and worst things? Waking up on the road, knowing your day will be unique. Even if it’s a [...]
Last month the Victorian Writers Centre [http://www.writers-centre.org/] grilled me on the sidelight of travel writing – does it pay? How much? And how the hell can a literate bum get away with it? At least a bunch of questions along those lines. See if you can’t derive your own brand of sense from Part A, [...]
Is Adam as nice as he seems? That was the question I copped from all quarters – the female quarters in particular – on having met with TV host, Adam Hills for a Sunday Life profile. Short answer, yes. Though nice can be a brand of asphyxia – as Nice Plague on your right will [...]
Quiz buffs take note – you are often wiser to ask the audience, than phone a friend. Not that your friend is dumb, but a crowd collectively carries more smarts. I know – counterintuitive but true. That’s a key plank in James Suroweicki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, a book http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/ I explored for Sunday Life [...]
They came. They jumped. They hit the water hard. Pretty much the order of things in the Birdman Rally on the Yarra last Saturday. Twenty-one grownups, dressed as swans, cockatoos and superheroes, attached to fiberglass butterlfies, three-eyed fish and balsa wings, ran full pelt off the 4-metre platform and…well…splash. Congratz to Michael Paul who eked [...]
The correct rainbow should appear like so: Denzel Washington: Crimson Tide, Devil in a Blue Dress, Bone Collector Andie MacDowell: Green Card, Ruby Cairo, Greystoke Sean Connery: Hunt for Red October, Goldfinger, Name of the Rose That’s enough tickling of the palette for now. Look for a new tangent next post.
The answer is kaleidoscopic, each star featuring in a film from the colour charts: Demi Moore – Scarlet Letter Kevin Kline – Pink Panther Nicole Kidman – Emerald City Robert de Niro – Jackie Brown Andy Garcia – Black Rain Maggie Smith – Ladies in Lavender Charlie Sheen – Navy Seals Tom Hanks – Green [...]
Last chance to unveil the connection between the ten stars below. What ten films – starring each star – share a clear link? Demi Moore Kevin Kline Nicole Kidman Robert de Niro Andy Garcia Maggie Smith Charlie Sheen Tom Hanks Penelope Cruz John Cusack Answer in a day or two. Can you get there first?
Now the list is lengthening. Can you figure out the verbal link shared by the seven stars below? Demi Moore Kevin Kline Nicole Kidman Robert de Niro Andy Garcia Maggie Smith Charlie Sheen Last bunch of stars in the next day or two. Can you guess the group’s link?
You probably know the score by now. I’ll drop a few actors’ names over the week, and see how quickly you can identify the connection. The link will somehow relate to a title of specific movie in which each star has starred. Good luck. So let’s start with these three: Demi Moore Kevin Kline Nicole [...]