FILM
When women make movies, Hollywood pays attention, as scores of
stars turned out to see Demi Moore and Courteney Cox make their
directorial debuts.
GOOD LIVING
We have walked, cycled and run over it for special events. Now the
Sydney Harbour Bridge will be turned into a giant cafe seating
20,000 for breakfast.
FILM
Gordon Gekko, the anti-hero of the Hollywood film Wall Street,
played by Michael Douglas, will return to confront the credit
crisis, according to Hollywood reports.
BOOKS
When The Sydney Morning Herald-Dymocks Literary Event Program
started in 1988, 120 people turned up.
TV & RADIO
The ABC is dumping a raft of radio programs as job cuts begin to
bite.
ARTS
Imposing moral protocols on arts funding is a danger to artistic
freedom, one of the nation's leading novelists says.
MUSIC
Former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus has won an appeal against Swedish
tax authorities.
ARTS
He is best known for his graffiti art but for his first official
New York show, the British artist Banksy has turned his hand to
moving figures.
GOOD LIVING
A winery in the tropics? As unlikely as it sounds, Australian-grown
grapes are being used to make wine in Bali as the price of imported
alcohol soars.
TV & RADIO
A "bitterly disappointed" Thanh Bui doesn't think he deserved to be
voted off Australian Idol.
GOOD LIVING
From the chef with impaired vision to the winemaker with an alcohol
allergy, for some a taste for the good things in life can't be
taken for granted.
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