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Becoming Long John Silver just for a day
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/09/2021
» Important news. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, on which everyone is encouraged to speak in the manner of a buccaneer, sea dog, corsair, picaroon or whatever you wish to call them. If you are desperate Captain Jack Sparrow impersonations will suffice.
Actor Geoffrey Rush wins 'largest ever' Australian defamation payout
AFP, Published on 02/07/2020
» SYDNEY: Hollywood star Geoffrey Rush won a record multimillion-dollar payout Thursday after an appeal by a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper against a defamation ruling was thrown out by an Australian court.
Sydney tabloid appeals defamation award to actor Geoffrey Rush
AFP, Published on 06/05/2019
» SYDNEY: Australia's Daily Telegraph is appealing a defamation award to Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush which could cost the Sydney tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch millions of dollars, the newspaper said Monday.
Geoffrey Rush faces fresh claims of inappropriate behaviour
AFP, Published on 17/12/2018
» SYDNEY - Academy award-winner Geoffrey Rush on Monday faced fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour by an actress, amid his defamation battle with an Australian newspaper over separate claims.
'This Is Us,' 'Veep' casts take top SAG TV series awards
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: This Is Us won the top drama series trophy at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards, making up for the Emmy and Golden Globe honours that eluded it and taking a stand for broadcast network TV amid growing online competition.
In its death throes
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 26/05/2017
» Six years since its last showing -- On Stranger Tides -- was released in 2011, the Pirates Of The Caribbean is back yet again this week in Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth instalment of Disney's whimsical pirate adventure franchise.
Gibson and Hacksaw Ridge dominate Aussie film awards
AFP, Published on 08/12/2016
» SYDNEY - Mel Gibson and his new movie Hacksaw Ridge have swept the board at the Australian film awards in a return from the wilderness for the "choked up" Oscar-winner.
Nine await mass execution in Indonesia, as hopes for reprieve fade
Reuters, Published on 28/04/2015
» CILACAP, INDONESIA — Nine drug traffickers met their families for what could be the final time at an Indonesian maximum-security prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected international pleas for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed, possibly within hours.
Anguished families make 'last visit' before Indonesia executions
AFP, Published on 28/04/2015
» CILACAP (INDONESIA) - Relatives of two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia cried out in anguish as they arrived at a prison island Tuesday, in distressing scenes as they paid what could be their final visit to the condemned men ahead of their executions.
Celebrities urge Australia PM to save execution pair
AFP, Published on 28/04/2015
» SYDNEY - Celebrities including Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush released a video Tuesday urging Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to fly to Indonesia to help save two citizens facing execution, forcing the government to defend its tactics.