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OUR LOVE LEADS TAYLOR BACK■ During the 1980s as many teenag-ers spent hours trying to solve theRubik's Cube, we began to welcomeAmerican artists into our loungerooms during what music historiansdescribe as the MTV generation.

As the world watched MichaelJackson reinvent himself whilstCyndi Lauper 'she bopped' andcalled out to girls around the globe tohave fun, the unique vocal style ofLong Island's Taylor Dayne firsthit our airwaves and television sets.

Taylor remains one of music'smost dynamic artists of all time hav-ing earned numerous best-selling goldand platinum albums, which producedseventeen Top 20 singles with numberone hits such as Tell It To My Heart,Love Will Lead You Back and ProveYour Love To Me.

During the course of her career,Taylor has sold more than 75 millionalbums and singles worldwide, gar-nered three Grammy nominationsand appeared in many film, television,and Broadway stage roles such asElton John's, Aida.

At 51 years-of-age, Taylor doesn'tseem to be slowing and last year wasinducted into the LI Hall of Fame,alongside other Long Island legendsincluding Billy Joel, Pat Benatarand Lou Reed.

Ahead of arriving to Australia, Ilearnt that apart from being born withthe gift to sing, her career took direc-tion after stopping on the WestlineHighway in her late teens.

DivaPorch

Thoughts

I understand that you are closeby your Porch in your home inLA. What can you see?

I am looking at my Porch from myliving room; I have French doors thatopen to my backyard where I have alittle gazebo and a couple of ivy plantsgrowing with a fountain by my pool.It's very green and the sun is just start-ing to go down.

You were born in New York andmoved from the Bronx to LongIsland with your family when youwere two years-of age. Where didyour love of music stem from?

I was a very aspiring rock star byfive years-of-age and you could ask meanything about music.

All I ever wanted to be was a rockstar. My father gave me my first radioand my parents always played music,especially on Sundays as it was con-sidered a family day.

Were your parents artistic?My parents were avid theatre goers andmembers of very interesting theatre

companies. They took us to a lot ofbizarre theatre as well as magical the-atre and Broadway - I was very ex-posed to the arts.

Did you always want to berock star?

By kindergarten I started per-forming solos with the Glee Clubwhich was usually just for third gradestudents.

For me, it was literally having avoice but I was very shy on some lev-els. My voice was an expressive tooland a way to be good at something,excel and to be the best.

Were you classically trained?I learnt by ear, just listening to mu-

sicians and vocalists. I just emulatedvoice after voice and in the 70s itcould be anything from ArethaFranklin to Karen Carpenter toJoni Mitchell to Al Green and toBill Withers. These artists all hadhit records and were all played on Top40 radio programs.

How did your first hit song TellIt To My Heart come about?

When I was 19, I was drivingalong the Westline Highway andsaw my high school friend Ric Wakewalking.

I pulled over and we started talk-ing about trying to get a record deal.I was working with an English pro-ducer friend and working in a night-club in Brooklyn at the time, andRic had a friend working at WarnerChapel who sent us a cassette withfour songs on it.

Ric loved Tell It To My Heart sowe borrowed $6000 from my Dadand hoped we could get a label inter-ested so I could pay my Dad back.

When do you feel your voicewas becoming a stand-alone onthe world stage?

In 1988, I'll Always Love You re-ally turned it around for me as a vo-calist where I really started breakingaway from the pack.

We thought it would be a one hitwonder, then we had two hits, thenwe had three hits, then the song ledme to be nominated for an R&B vo-cal and Grammys. It was a bigrecord for me and is still in the Top20 wedding songs of all time.

Your second album Can'tFight Fate was massive aroundthe world and in a way, yoursongs became more soulful withhits such as Love Will Lead youBack and I'll be Your Shelter. Didyou feel these songs started por-traying the artist you wanted tobe?

Can't Fight Fate had a lot of im-pact on me as I started developing

●●●●● Taylor Daynento my womanhood. The songs weresleek and the big video producers suchas David Finch came forward andthat's when I went very blonde andreally owning my power.

Diane Warren started writingmore for me with songs that weremore soulful, more passionate and Ihad more rock influence in my voice.

From a recording artist'spoint of view, what was it likebeing handed Diane's portfolioof songs to listen to?

Diane is one of the most tenacioussongwriters I've ever met, she be-lieves in her music and her songs havestood the test of time.

President of Aritsa Records, CliveDavis, played me Love Will Lead youBack and our jaws dropped. It was justthat breathtaking and an incrediblesong.

You've appeared in Broad-ways, films and reality televisionprograms. How did you get intofilms?

Warren Beatty saw me perform-ing on the Jay Leno Show in 1994 andcalled my management to ask if I wasinterested in auditioning for his remakeof Love Affair.

I was looking at myself more ex-pansively and hoping I could act andcould draw from my creativity. I chal-lenged myself and started taking les-

sons, but it was scary sitting there nextto Annette Benning and Warren.

You went on to appear in sev-eral films and also did a lot ofstage productions including per-formed on Broadway in EltonJohn's Aida in 2001. Will we seeyou in more Broadway shows?

I'm actually back on the stage inSeptember performing in the musicalCats, which I'm pretty excitedabout.

What will we expect to see atyour shows in Melbourne?

My songs are kind of the soundtrackof people's lives, so I'll play a lot ofmy hits and some songs from my lat-est album Satisfy and also performsongs that I love.

I just love Melbourne and I havewonderful friends there and enjoy din-ner with them in their homes when Itour.

What is your Porch Thought ForThe Day?

While winding down and puttingyour feet up, reflect on the day andtake a deep breath and let your caresmelt away.■ Taylor Dayne will be per-forming three shows aroundMelbourne from Friday, June 7-9. For more information visitwww.taylordayne.com

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Rob RichardsonRadio Announcer WYNFM 88.9Monday Afternoons 3pm-5pmAs I sit here on the Porch of WYNFM reflecting back tothe music the 80s, some of the world's all-time greatestsongs and artists stemmed from this era and remainpopular in 2013.I still enjoy playing tracks from Australian artists such asJohn Farnham's You're The 'Voice and I recall mydaughters dancing around the living room wearingleggings, headbands and dancing to Olivia Newton-John'sPhysical in front of the television in the early 80s.

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Second show MIAF 2013

●●●●● Cyndi Lauper■ Cyndi Lauper will perform asecond Melbourne show at thePalais Theatre, St Kilda, on Fri-day, August 30.

Cyndi will perform the record-setting album She’s So Unusual inits entirety.

The album features some ofLauper’s most well-known songsand perennial radio favorites includ-ing Girls Just Want to Have Fun,Time After Time, She Bop, MoneyChanges Everything and AllThrough the Night.

What’s On In Melbourne

★ Eolo Paul Bottaro’s exhibition, Colour Without A Name, is beingheld at the James Makin Gallery, 67 Cambridge St, Collingwood,

from July 10-August 10.

★ A celebration in word and song to mark the 150th year of the arrival ofthe Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia, will be presented on Fri-

day, June 21 at 8pm at the Good Shepherd Chapel, 1 St Heliers St,Abbotsford.

★ Thousands will travel the 9th Annual Woodend Winter Arts Fes-tival, held over the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend.

■ The Melbourne InternationalAnimation Festival is being heldfrom June 20-30 at ACMI Cin-emas: Australian Centre for theMoving Image, FederationSquare.

There are more than 2000 entries,from 30 Countries, with some 400Films to be screened over 11 days.

There will be two specialfundraiser screenings to digitallypreserve Alex Stitt's ground-break-ing feature Grendel Grendel Grendel(1981).

International guests will includemaster animator Koji Yamamura(Japan), Patrick Jenkins(Canada), and Martinus Klemet(Estonia).

●●●●● David J Holman is assisting St Kilda’s Leanne Kingwell atCactus Studios in Los Angeles. Gavin Wood has all the detailsin his new weekly column on Page 15.

Melbourne Moments

Orphan trAshley■ Trevor Ashley's Little OrphantrAshley comes to the Comedy The-atre from July 4 - 14.

Trevor Ashley is Fannie, a 10-year-old inmate of the SutherlandShire orphanage for talented children,run by washed-up, boozy matron MissTrannigan (Rhonda Burchmore).

Fannie will need the help of multi-millionaire Daddy Warhorse (GarySweet).

Performance Season: July 4 - 14.Times: Tue 7pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat6.30pm and 9.30pm, Sun 5pm. Book-ings: Ticketmaster 1300 660 013 orwww.ticketmaster.com.au

Melb. Arts Walk■ Arts Centre Melbourne islaunching the Melbourne Arts Walk,a limited series of crafted plaqueshonouring the arts to be embedded intothe footpath surrounding Arts CentreMelbourne’s famous buildings.

The plaques can be purchased for$25,000 each.

Notable performers who have pro-vided quotes for the Melbourne ArtsWalk include Guy Pearce, OliviaNewton-John, Paul Kelly, TinaArena, Silvie Paladino, RobertLepage, Cliff Richard, MarinaPrior and Reg Livermore.●●●●● Silvie Paladino

Vienna On Fire

●●●●● Russell McGregor

■ The Johann Strauss Ensemblereturns to Australia to presentVienna On Fire in July, with Victo-rian performances on July 20 atHamer Hall, and July 21 at theGeelong Performing Arts Cen-tre.

Vienna On Fire features the cap-tivating waltzes and polkas ofAustria’s founding romantic com-poser Johann Strauss and his sonsEduard and Josef.

Vienna On Fire will be led byMelbourne’s waltz king, violinistRussell McGregor

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OPENING NIGHT

●●●●● Anita Karabajakian (left), Quinn Cameron and Shine look for-ward to opening night of Annie on Friday (May 31) at the WhitehorseCentre, Nunawading.

■ Babirra Music Theatre presents Annie on May 31, June 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, at8pm and June 2, 8, 9 at 2pm at the Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd,Nunawading.

The show is directed by Alan Burrows, with musical direction by DannyForward and choreography by Susan Lewis.

The role of Annie will be shared by Quinn Cameron and AnitaKarabajakian. Anita has already been busy performing this year as one ofthe Jemimas in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in both Melbourne and Adelaide,and will also be in the Production Company's Gypsy in July.

Tickets: $38/$34/$30. Bookings: 9262 6555 or [email protected] www.babirra.org.au

■ Author Mark Carthew’s TheMoose Is Loose will be launched byHazel Edwards (There's AHippottomus On My Roof) at El-tham Library between 3pm-4.30pm at Eltham Library onSaturday (June 1).

Moose food and drinks will beserved. Families of young children,with prizes for the best antlers.

Bookings are essential: 94398700. [email protected]

●●●●● Matt Stanton illustratesThe Moose Is Loose

Appointed

●●●●● Louise Dunham■ Melbourne’s Louise Dun-ham, Managing Director of Place-ment Solutions, is the first per-son outside the US to be appointedto the International Nanny As-sociation board of directors.

As a passionate advocate forAustralia’s childcare industry andhaving operated her own agency for25 years, Louise’s frank and forth-right manner saw her earn a topspot with the global organisation.

“More than 20ago, when I wasa working mum myself, I remem-ber struggling with findingchildcare, and the endless battleagainst mess and disorganisation,”said Ms Dunham.

★ National Institute of Circus Arts staff will be dressing in Film Noirstyle at the opening night of One False Move at 7.30pm on Wednesday

June 19 at Green St, Prahran.

★ The Woodsman by Steven Fechter will be presented by Artform The-atre at Mechanics Institute, 270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, from June

6-22. Bookings: [email protected] - see more on Page 91

★ A free SharePoint and Office 365 seminar in Melbourne is beingheld on Tuesday (June 4).

★ The third annual ‘Masters of Rock’ event in order to raise money andawareness for eloma (blood cancer) will be held on June 20 at The Hi-

Fi, 125 Swanston St, Melbourne, 7.30 pm onwards. The line-up includesJames Reyne, Daryl Braithwaite, Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier.

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●●●●● Popular Melbourne PR gal Liz Sullivan (inset) hada surprise visitor in her bedroom at the weekend, whenshe returned from the Carlton footy match at the week-end. Liz reminds us that the Blues 13.20 (98) def.Brisbane Lions 12.13 (85).

M arist Youth Care at B runswick

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●●●●● Trainee Brandon with Victorian Minister for Higher Education and Skills, PeterHall, at at the new Marist Youth Care AHFL Skills Development Centre in Brunswick.

●●●●● New Chapter: Same Story is a ‘mock-doc web series’ clocking the ups anddowns of a year in the life of two 20-something struggling actors, racing to ‘makeit’ in Melbourne before their visa expiration. It features Irish actor Elijah Egan andEnglish actor Christian Heath. The six part series will launch June 10 with a weeklyrelease on the run up to MWF awards night on July 20 at Kindred Studios.www.facebook.com/NewChapterSameStory

●●●●● Nico Llewelyn Davies, left (Benjamin Byrne), Mary Ansell (Gabby Llewelyn Salter)and Michael Llewelyn Davies (Kieran McShane) in The Death of Peter Pan, untilJune 2 at Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. See more on Page 91. Photo: Marc Opitz

●●●●● Melbourne photographer Jim Lee captured this portrait of Melbourne girls OliviaNewton-John, Tottie Goldsmith and her mum Rona. Rona passed away this weekfrom brain cancer at the age of 70.

●●●●● Pictured at the St Kilda Film Festival are City ofPort Phillip Mayor Amanda Jane Stevens, new CEOTracey Slatter, and Cr Serge Thomann.

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Awareness■ Vision Australia ad-vises that it is MacularDegeneration Aware-ness Week.

The story of OrmondBottomley, 90, is being pro-moted. He has an activelifestyle despite his deterio-rating vision.

Four years ago Ormondwas diagnosed with maculardegeneration; the most com-mon cause of vision loss inolder Australians. One inseven people over 50 are af-fected and the incidence in-creases with age.

The condition results inthe loss of central visionwhile peripheral vision re-mains relatively unaffected.

Gangsters’Ball is back

■ Angela Ceberanofrom Flourish PR advisesthat the Gangsters’ Ball isback in Melbourne on Sat-urday, September 14 at theForum Theatre.

The Gangsters’ Ballbrings to life the fashion,style, humour and classicentertainment of the 1930sand 40s.

Dress code is strictly1920s to 50s gangsters, flap-pers, molls, burlesque, vin-tage glamour and dance hallswing.

The Ball features swordswallowing Aerial Manx,burlesque troupe Saph-hira's Showgirls, hulahooper Anna Lumb, theEchoes of Harlem swingdancetroupe and The RedHot Rhythmakers.

●●●●● David Gulpilil

■ AFI winner David Gulpilil joins writer/director CatrionaMcKenzie at Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton duringNational Reconciliation Week tomorrow (Thurs.) at 6.45pmto discuss their heartfelt new film Satellite Boy.

The film tells the story of Pete (Cameron Wallaby), a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who lives with his elderly grandfa-ther, Old Jagamarra (Gulpilil) in an abandoned outdoor cin-ema in the outback town of Wyndham.

When a new development threatens their way of life, Peteembarks on a quest to save their home that takes him throughthe expansive beauty of Kimberley Country.

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■ The Fair Work Ombuds-man has launched legal actionagainst the operators of aMelbourne suburban servicestation, alleging two employees,both recent immigrants, wereunderpaid more than $111,000.

Facing court is Liquid FuelPty Ltd, which operates a ser-vice station trading as BP onClyde Rd in Berwick.

Also facing Court are ser-vice station managers XinZhang and his wife Linda Qu,and Liquid Fuel part-ownerand director Nian Li, who is

Ms Qu's father. It is allegedthat two console operators em-ployed at the service stationwere underpaid a total of$111,874 between 2007 and2012.

The employees were Indiannationals who were both aged 28and in Australia on visas whenthey commenced their employ-ment. One is now a permanentresident in Australia and theother is now an Australian citi-zen.

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The employees were alleg-edly entitled to receive up to $27an hour for some work they per-formed.

The alleged underpaymentswere subsequently rectified,with the employees being back-paid individual amounts of$58,584 and $53,290, FairWork said.

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Co-offender, Ballarat’s Jake Williams,pleaded guilty to armed robbery, burglary, theftand four counts of making a threat to kill. Theywill appear at the County Court at Ballaratfor plea hearings on July 29, reports the BallaratCourier newspaper.

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■ Real estate firm Worldwide ScopePty Ltd has been permanently bannedfrom holding an estate agent’s licence byVictorian Civil and AdministrativeTribunal Member Elizabeth Went-worth.

The company had carried out businessunder the name Century 21 @Waterview Docklands as a franchiseoperation.

Consumer Affairs Victoria saidcomplaints against the company includedlate rental payments or not paid at all,being unable to account for rental pay-ments received, and bonds not beinglodged with the Residential TenanciesBond Authority.

Inspectors Hin Uy Dan and BrettEdward Watson found a $64,453 defi-ciency in the books, VCAT was told.

Mr Syed Ali Abbas was a directorand officer-in-effective control. He re-signed a s a director in September 2011,and left Australia in January last year.He has not returned.

The business address is now empty.Sole director Jay Bisset had been a

director in 2008, believed the business tohave been sold by his former father-in-law, and had never met Abbas.

Affadavits were lodged by 15 landlordsas a sample of the evidence given by manyaffected by the mismanagement alleged.

●●●●● Amelia Ryan in her cabaret A Storm In A D Cup. Photo: Lloyd Harvey

Storm In A D-Cup

■ Amelia Ryan, 2012 Australian Caba-ret Showcase prize winner, is back inMelbourne and right at home at The But-terfly Club once again, bringing her own styleof cabaret in A Storm In A D Cup.

Ryan is clever and cunning as she takes heraudience on an 'almost' tell-all expose of herlife thus far, and what a life she has had.

Having a gay father, transgender stepmotherand cougar mother is sure to make any one in-dividual lead a life left-of-centre, but Ryan'sfamily make up is only the beginning of herhilarious tales of woe and wisdom.

The music in the show is fantastic. Ryancleverly re-writes old favourites from the likesof Rogers and Hammerstein, and BelindaCarlise and makes them her own.

The songs tell a story like they should. Sheis accompanied by Cameron Thomas whobrings another layer of excitement to this show.

With a couple of one-liners that had melaughing out loud, he also plays brilliantly andis integral to the show's success.

Ryan shares her tales in a quick and quirkymanner that makes her audience laugh along-side her.

Throughout the one-hour show I was enter-tained and engrossed in her tales. There weremoments when I laughed out loud, and mo-ments when I was drawn in by her story tellingabilities.

Ryan should be commended on her abilityto transpose the story of her life into a mereone hour and for her ability to deliver an enjoy-able night of laughs and entertainment to heraudience.

Season: Sat June 29 and Sun June 30Times: 8.30pmVenue: Kew Court House, 188 High St,

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●●●●● The Sunny Cowgirls: Celeste and Sophie Clabburn

■ I was pleased to seein the some terrific fe-male talent lined up onthe bill at the Deni UteMuster.

Kasey Chambersand The Sunny Cow-girls will be sharing thestage with Americancountry and westernsuper star Alan Jack-son at the 15th Anni-versary muster.

As one of the mostrequested country mu-sic acts in Australia,The Sunny Cowgirlsare riding high on thesuccess of their latestalbum release

Summer which hasremained top of thecharts and awardedthem with sell outshows across Australia.

The two sisters,Sophie and CelesteClabburn. were firstdiscovered by DancingWith The Stars winnerAdam Brand at theCountry Music As-sociation of Aust-ralia’s highly re-spected College ofCountry Music in2005.

The accomplishedsinging and song writ-ing duo has continued totake the country musicscene by storm withSummer, their fourth al-bum release.

Blonde, confidentand charming with agreat story to tell, TheSunny Cowgirls de-liver their shows withgusto, laughs and plentyof fun for those in theaudience and on stagetoo.

Their infectious en-ergy whilst performinghas seen them grow intoheadline acts for majorfestival and events.

Golden Guitarnominations, a legionof adoring fans and stillmany songs to write,The Sunny Cowgirlsare no doubt one of themost intriguing andtrue to themselves actsin Australia.

Modest yet cheeky,the two whom often fin-

ish each other’s sen-tences are at easeamongst their idols,peers and their fanswith a ‘no bull’ attitudethat has only enhancedtheir popularly.

“We’re abit differ-ent – we’re a mixtureof the traditional, ofcountry rock. comedyand loud drinkingsongs”, said Sophie.

This is to be ex-pected from a couple ofgirls who came throughadolescence listeningto Slim Dusty andJohn Williamson,coupled with Nirvanaand the Red HotChilli Peppers.

They have touredextensively withAdam Brand, sharedthe stage with LeeKern-aghan andcount on the like ofJohn Williamsonand Sara Storer tofreely admit they arefans … there is noquestion of The SunnyCowgirls’ future inAustralian countrymusic.

They will be verymuch at home on thatstage at the Deni UteMuster. Go girls!

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Nothing finishes off ahard working weekthan a lovely invitationlanding in my in-box,

Ann Peacock, an-other fabulous woman,sent a very deliciousinvitation to the launchof afternoon tea atThe Waiting Room,Crown Towers thisweek.

I love The Wait-ing Room and will re-port back to you allwith pics!

The WaitingRoom is delicious andthis invitation soundsthe most indulgent ex-perience at the glitter-ing location withinCrown Towersglamorous lobby.

Women of courage

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●●●●● Hazel Hawke

■ The passing of Hazel Hawke made mestop and reflect on what a wonderful womanshe was.

I was friendly with her daughter Sue (an-other wonderful woman) when I lived inSydney.

My late mother Alyson loved Hazel andeverything for which she she stood.

Women adored Hazel. I, for one, alwaysfelt she was such a strong woman in her ownright and a superb musician.

She played beautiful piano. I saw her at theOpera House and will never forget.

Hazel was always a prominent figure inmy household where I felt when things got alittle rough in Mum’s day as it does with allwomen who took on ‘household duties’.

There was the feeling that there was more,and Hazel made it real and possible.

My column this week is dedicated to suchwomen like Hazel who stood strong in adver-sity and showed courage when it wasn’t nec-essarily fashionable.

I thank her for inspiring my mother and inturn allowing all Australian women to bestrong.

Hazel Hawke was a fabulous Australianwoman. Women when strong and prominentmake such an impression, like Angelina Jolieand the stand she took recently, and the womanwho stood in front of the man who committedsuch horror in the streets of London.

It reminded me of Tenneman Squarewhen the man stood in front of the tank, whenthat brave mum confronted one of the attack-ers on that London street with hands in herpockets she asked him why he did it?

It takes courage to do that. I have no doubtthat Bob Hawke would not have been PrimeMinister if Hazel had not been there.

Just as so many great women are support-ing their husbands and their families while theman goes out to embark on his chosen career.

As many happy days as Hazel had withher beloved family, there would have beentough days too.

So my glass is raised to Hazel Hawke andall those wonderful women who followed inher footsteps.

From the young to the old, we gals have tostick together and support each other.

I love my job!I love my job!

■ A fabulous woman in my opinion is Caroline Wilson, Age sportsjournalist. I love watching her as one of the panellists on Footy Classi-fied on the Nine Network.

As Chief Football Writer for The Age newspaper she doesn’t mindstanding up to the fellas on the panel. She knows her stuff too. She isccasionally seen on the ABC1 Sunday program Offsiders.

I think Channel 9 would get a lot more female viewers for The FootyShow if they added her to the panel with Garry, James and Sam. Iwould love to see her on that show.

Born and bred in Melbourne, Caro as she is affectionately called,is the daughter of Ian Wilson, who was president of the RichmondFootball Club between 1974 and 1985.

Seven News reporter Brendon Donohoe is her husband. Mother ofthree, she is a must watch when it comes to footy and getting the realstory.

Caroline began covering footy in 1982. She specialises in AFL andwrites about many other sports. She has been chief football writer forThe Age since 1999. Winner of many sporting journalism awards.I thinkshe is great. A must watch and listen to-woman.

Go Caro. Keep up the great work.

●●●●● Robyn Wright and Kevin Spacey in House Of Cards

House Of Cards■ I have a new addiction. It is called House Of Cards, it’s on Showcase,every Tuesday night at 8.30pm. Two hours of the best television I haveseen for years.

Kevin Spacey is extraordinary. His performance is brilliant andriveting. I watch it, tape it and watch it again.

Robin Wright is stunning as Spacey’s wife. Now working in hermaiden name, for many years Robin was known as Robin WrightPenn having been married to actor Sean Penn from 1996 to 2010 withwhom she had two children.

A great actress, she has appeared in many films including ForrestGump (earning her a Golden Globe nomination), The Girl With TheDragon Tattoo.

However it is for this role as Claire Underwood that is giving herthe accolades currently.

It is a role made for her, and the on-screen dynamic with Kevin Spaceyis electric. I highly recommend it. It’s riveting ‘must watch’ television.

Caro Wilson

knows her stuff

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Waiting Roomat Crown

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●●●●● Adam Bull and Ingrid Gow, Bella Figura,The Australian Ballet Vanguard.

■ Primary school children across Victoria are in for atreat over the coming months.

OzOpera's specially recreated production ofRossini's comic opera The Barber Of Seville has justlaunched its 2013 touring season.

This arm of Opera Australia deliberately takes amajor operatic work and without compromising the mu-sical integrity, translates it into a version that under 13scan relate to and therefore discover the joy of opera.

Taking only 50 minutes, this production of The Bar-ber, by Christine Anketell and Brian Castles-On-ion, is full of madcap antics of love-at-first-sight, secretletters, cunning disguises and lots of wonderfully crazyconfusion, as well as some superb singing.

This year the OzOpera company includes singersStacey Alleaume, Jonathan Bode, Donna-MareeDunlop, Nicholas Jones, Cameron Lukey and Bar-bara Zavros, with pianists Pamela Christie and SueGoessling, and it is all directed by Naomi Edwardswith musical direction by Sue Goessling.

New audiences

I have long been a fan of the OzOpera school tours,as they have been running since 1998, and I have had thepleasure of seeing my own sons discover and continue alove of opera from these early experiences.

Opera Australia artistic director LyndonTerracini is also a fan of opera in schools.

"We are always keen to encourage new audiences,and we genuinely want to show people of all ages, espe-cially children, that opera comes in all shapes and sizes.

“Most importantly, we are well aware that manypeople can't get to the major cites to see opera, so it's upto us to make every effort to go to them,' he said.

From a singer's perspective, many of the bigger nameopera singers got their first break as a member of theOzOpera Schools' company, and there is no better wayto learn your craft than having to win over a scepticalaudience of children with short attention spans.

- Julie Houghton

Vanguard

Melbourne Observationswith Matt Bissett-Johnson

THE BARREL

‘Never pick afight with a man

who buys inkby the barreland paper by

the ton.’

New Director at SEN, MP

●●●●● Michelle Guthrie

●●●●● Derryn Hinch

■ Atheist Derryn Hin-ch ran with the banner of‘Oh My God’ at hisHuman Headline web-site late last week, afterthe Woolwich attack inthe UK.

Hinch has been keep-ing busy with his Chan-nel 7 commitments onSunday Night, Today To-night and Sunrise.

Meanwhile at 3AW,his Drive show successorTom Elliott has pre-sided over a drop of ratings from the timeslot winning12.7 per cent at the end of 2012, to 10.0 per cent inlast week’s survey. That’s a fall of one-third of theHinch audience.

“Thank your mother for the rabbits.”

Thanking God ...

and the rabbits

‘Good luck’

■ Previews of thestage spectacularKing Kong began lastnight (Tues.) at TheRegent Theatre inCollins St.

The Observer says‘good luck’ to theproducers and castof this multi-mil-lion dollar show.

The big galaopening night is duethis Saturday (June1) when 2000 in-vited VIPs witnessthe one-tonne six-metre gorilla. TheVIPs party after-wards at the Mel-bourne Town Hall.

The paying pub-lic will be asked toinvest up to $129 foreach ticket to the 2½-hour show. Book-ings are currentlybeing taken onlinefor shows until July26.

There are somebig dollars riding onthe success or other-wise of this pro-duction of KingKong.

The State Gov-ernment has in-vested taxpayers’money to assist theshow.

Media partnersinclude 3AW, 91.5Smooth FM andChannel 7 (whichexplains the SundayNight puff-piece atthe weekend).

The big dollars,and other factors,mean smaller mediais largely excluded.This means that Vic-torian theatre-goersare served poorlyfor information

The Melbourne Ob-server - billed repeat-edly by The Age as‘Melbourne’s show-biz bible’ - cannotbring detail of theshow to its readers.

We were referredby publicist ScottDawkins of BridgesPR to the King Kongwebsite but we werenot issued with apassword to accessthe media informa-tion.

Nor have we beengiven access to Sat-urday’s openingnight. So we will beunable to publishour usual photospreads of the redcarpet and party.

At the last-minute, we were of-fered tickets to a Fri-day preview. Wehave declined.

Producers andpublicists are en-titled to have theirfavourites, and in-vite (and ignore)whoever they wish.

But that type ofstrategy always back-fires. Good luck tothem anyway.

■ Mebourne-based radio company, Pacific StarNetwork, has this month appointed a media heavy-hitter to its board. The company runs SEN 1116 andMyMP radio stations in Victoria, and publishes In-side Football magazine.

Michelle Guthrie has become a Director, along-side chairman Andrew Moffat, CEO BarrieQuick, Ron Hall, Gary Pert and finance manStephen Sweeney.

Guthrie’s CV includes 20 years in the media andentertainment industry. She has been Google Man-aging Director for Partner Business Solutions in theAsia-Pacific region; a former Hong Kong chieffor Providence Equity; CEO of NewsCorporation’s Star Group; and directorships ofVerisign, and Sky affiliates.

Jeff blames carbon tax

●●●●● Jeff Chatfield

■ Who remembers JeffChatfield from his daysas CEO of Data andCommerce Ltd, thecompany that ranshambolic Melbourneradio station 3AK?

Chatfield went on torun Skywest, the WestAustralian airline ...which this year has beenfully taken over by Vir-gin for $99 million.

Earlier this year Sky-west posted a posted aSingapore $2.2 million (A$1.7 million) loss for the first half-year withChatfield blaming the carbon tax.

■ Winter in Melbourne means the AustralianBallet is in town.

Opening the winter ballet-fest is a feast for themodern ballet lovers, as the company presents Van-guard, a triple bill of works from famous contempo-rary composers Balanchine, Kylian and McGreg-or.

George Balanchine stretched classical techniquewith The Four Temperaments. Jirí Kylián raisedthe bar for abstract ballet with Bella Figura, whileWayne McGregor's Dyad 1929 redefined ballet fora new generation of balletomanes.

Australian Ballet Artistic Director DavidMcAllister says that Vanguard is a program that dem-onstrates ballet's modern journey.

“Classical ballet underwent dramatic developmentsin the 20th-century and continues to evolve," explainsMcAllister. "Vanguard is a program that will shiftpeople's expectations of what classical movement canexpress."

Vanguard is at the State Theatre for 12 perfor-mances from June 6 - 17.

For lovers of white tutus and swans, GraemeMurphy's triumphant reinterpretation of Swan Lakereturns to Melbourne.

Murphy says he was inspired by the notoriouslove triangle between Princess Diana, PrinceCharles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, leading himto conjure a world of scandal, betrayal and heartbreakin his version of Swan Lake.

The instantly recognisable Tchaikovsky scoretakes on dark new overtones in Murphy's hands.

Adding to his unique vision are the sumptuous setand costume designs of Kristian Fredrikson, in-cluding a classic white wedding dress with a sumptu-ous white train. The ice-blue lake is back on the ArtsCentre Melbourne stage this winter as Swan Laketakes residence for 11 performances from June 21 toJuly 1. All Australian Ballet performances are ac-companied by Orchestra Victoria.

As a bonus for ballet lovers during the Melbourneseason, there is a special public program called Ex-plore The Australian Ballet: McAllister In Conversa-tion. On Saturday, Hune 22, from 5-6pm, Artistic Di-rector David McAllister and a special guest will gobehind the scenes of Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake,at the State Theatre.

For more information and bookings for theMelbourne season, visit australianballet.com.auor call1300 369 741. - Julie Houghton

●●●●● Cameron Lukey and Donna-Maree Dunlop inThe Barber Of Seville

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Our attention this weekhas been drawn to originalepisodes of Homicide,which can be viewed atYouTube.com

What an extraordinarysnapshot of Melbourne of1964-65. What a magnet!

These early Channel7 dramas were assembledby Hector Crawford’scompany, with his sisterDorothy as ExecutiveProducer, assisted bySonia Borg.

The early location filmshave sound added later, butshow familiar landmarksaround Melbourne.

The first of the 510 epi-sodes have film of earlyBayswater, Temple-stowe, Warrandyte aswell as suburban locationssuch as Camberwell,Coburg, South Yarraand the City.

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■ Victorian lawyer Paul Simonof MW Law has been reprimandedby the Victorian Civil and Ad-ministrative Trubunal, after hav-ing been found to fail to honour un-dertakings given to third parties.

Legal Services CommissionerMichael McGarvie brought actionagainst Simon, bringing two chargesof professional misconduct.

VCAT Member Robert Buch-anan heard that Simon wrote twoletters to a money lender, promisinghis firm would pay money owed byclients David Graham (alsoknown as David Spreckley) andMr Wilson. The money was notrepaid.

The money lender, J P CreditLine, run by Delilah John, com-plained to the Legal Services Com-missioner, who laid charges of pro-fessional misconduct.

Simon says his letters amountedto no more than a promise to pay ifand when settlement monies werereceived at MW Law from WorkCover.

Mr Buchanan said Simon’stwo undertakings to JP Credit Linewere personal ones.

On leave

●●●●● Jamie Redfern

Burlesque roles for pair

●●●●● Nicki Wendt and Anne Wood

Mitsubishi tipped to ‘die’■ After the past week’s announcement of Ford clos-ing its Geelong and Broadmeadows operations,comes news from the 24/7 Wall St of 10 brands it ex-pects to die in the US over the coming 12 months:JCPenney, Nook, Olympus, Martha Stewart Liv-ing magazine, Living Social, Volvo, the WNBA,Leap Wireless, Mitsubishi Motors and Road &Track magazine.

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Hello Hello■ The Hello Hello Pty Ltd plant farm businessassociated with prominent radio advertisers Chris andMarie Lucas has a Melbourne Magistrates’Court appointment on Friday (May 31) when Pres-tige Plants Pty Ltd is due to make a civil claimabout “goods sold and delivered”.

■ Melbourne ra-dio station 3AW hasagain placed BruceMansfield on en-forced leave that hereally did not to take.

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THE ‘WISDOM’ OFRICKY NIXON

●●●●● Ricky Nixon

■ Troubled ex-AFLplayer manager RickyNixon has taken to Twit-ter and Facebook after hislatest confrontation withPolice.

Nixon, posting at@rickynixon1 on Twit-ter, took a swipe at theHerald Sun EditorDamon Johnston: “Da-mon Johnson @theheraldsun bet u want tosee what i have for u ... theAFP like it.”

Nixon’s post followedhim pouring iced coffee over a Herald Sun female jour-nalist outside his Port Melbourne home.

Nixon took a verbal swipe at a female reporter: “Isee one of Australia's leading journalist PanHead@RitaPanahi is having a sook ... time for coffee i'dsuggest ... on your PanHead!”

Last year Nixon attacked Age reporter SuzanneCarbone, also childishly substituting her surname.

Derryn Hinch copped some late-night ‘ChickenTrain’ Twitter serves: “it aint 2 hard dealing with cur-rent crop of D Grade journos in Aust lead by capt coura-geous Hinch”.

“Got a special cup of coffee for @HumanHeadlineso anyone who sees him out reporting let me know of hiswhereabouts want to film the delivery.”

Hinch had posted: “Ricky Nixon. Dumb just gotdumber.”

Nixon had a general warning for journalists: “ Mediabe warned you get in my way today and this time the lidcomes off the coffee Muddaf***ers Toot Toot!”■ The Melbourne Observer has not escaped Nixon’sire either. Twitter says that he has blocked our newspa-per from following his Twitter account.

“His failure to honour them doesnot stem from neglect or refusal todo something which was within hispower to do so,” Mr Buchanansaid.

“It stems from factors beyond hiscontrol and as such, Mr Simon’sfailure is not the worst type of breachof undertaking.

“Mr Simon’s breaches are nottrifling.”

Simon had been a solicitor since1989. He was an employee solicitorfor MW Law in 2008. The two cli-ents had been seeking claims againstthe Victorian Work Cover Auth-ority at the time.

■ Melbourne actresses Nicki Wendt and AnneWood will portray veteran burlesque artists in thestage production of Gypsy, playing at the State The-atre from July 6.

The Production Company has cast the two inthe raunchy roles, alongside Caroline O’Connorwho plays Rose.

Industry observers are fascinated by the castingof Christina Tan and Gemma-Ashley Kaplanas sisters. Christina has an Asian background;Gemma has Jewish heritage.

Also starring is Matt Hetherington as Herbie,the candy salesman who falls for Rose and becomesher manager.

Nearer my God to thee

Psychologistcautioned

■ Psychologist MeddwynColeman has been cautioned,after facing action brought by thePsychologists RegistrationBoard of Australia.

VCAT Senior MemberNoreen Megay, assisted by drJohn Farhall and GwennethCrawford, ordered that Cole-man have conditions placed onher registration.

Coleman must be supervisedover six months, with work onprofessional boundaries, manag-ing termination of the professionalrelationship between psycholo-gists and clients, and the main-tenance of accurate treatmentrecords.

VCAT heard that Colemanhad presented to a psycho-thera-pist, suffering from stress, anxi-ety and reactive depression, af-ter an embezzlement in her prac-tice.

■ Entertainer Jamie Redfern has answered whyhe conducts his talent school classes out of churchhalls more than anywhere else.

“It may surprise some folk to know that if I hadn'tbeen a singer I probably would have lived my life asan Anglican minister.

“Just like my incredible cousin Andrew becamein England. I feel most at home in a church setting -so ... question answered !

“Hence, the reason behind my currently looking toopen more and more Star Quality Song and Danceand Singing Studios in church halls like the oneswe are so happy to have found in Hastings and EastKeilor.

“I certainly would have been a radical kindapreacher,”■ Jamie Redfern also conduct classes from a stateof the art warehouse studio in Hoppers Crossing.

●●●●● Bruce Mansfield

■ There was badratings news for the3AW evening time-slot, in the surveyresults announced inthis past week.

Nightline, hostedby 3AW’s BruceMansfield andPhilip Brady, wasbeaten by the ABC.

The audiencenumbers, measuredbetween 7pm andMidnight showed theABC on 12.4 percent, 3AW with11.9, and Mix, 10.3.

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100 Years AgoFootscray Independent

Saturday, May 31, 1913EMPIRE DAY AT BRAYBROOK

The Braybrook State School celebrated Em-pire Day by the usual basket social and concert,and with sports and games for the children.

Fr Percy Cowderoy, the head teacher, as-sembled the children and the patriotic observancessuitable; to the day were carried out, followingwhich the programme for the morning sessionwas taken up.

The coming feast was naturally in prospectand the interest of the children was somewhatdivided, but they went through the items as be-fitting the future citizens of the Empire.

Then preparations were made for the goodthings which had arrived in full baskets in themorning, together with a plentiful supply of cor-dials, the gift of Mr H. Baldwin, of the Bray-brook Hotel.

The elder girls attired as waitresses, tookcharge of the.distribution and one could not helpbeing impressed witli their nice appearance, andthe efficient manner in which they discliarged'theirduties.

The school committee and parents were en-tertained in the afternoon with refreshments, anda concert by the children under the able conductof Mr Cowderoy and Miss Harvey, the firstassistant, whose effort to make the proceedingsa success had been more marked than ever.

The Hon. V. H. Edgar, Minister of PublicWorks, had been, in company with Mr Tate, theDirector of Education, addressing the Port Mel-bourne schools, and in the afternoon visitedBraybrook.

During an interval of the concert he spoke uponthe duties and responsibilities of the Empire,and. set these forth in a most telling speech whichwas received with hearty applause.

The singing of the National Anthem broughtthe day's proceedings to an end.

■ “It is better to be faithful than famous.”- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).

■ Advice on dealing with a sociopath is: Don't.Once you have identified one, don't have anythingto do with them.

- Catholic Community Forum

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■ Wedenesday, May 29. Jo Beth Taylor is41. Newsreader Natarsha Belling is 38.■ Thursday, May 30. Actress Jill Perrymanis 80. We remember Stan Rofe’s birthday (Stanwas born in 1933; died in 2003).■ Friday, May 31. Musician Ross Wilson is58 today.■ Saturday, June 1. Observer readerDominic Aloe of Airport West is 63. Victo-rian statistician Col Huitchinson is 69. Actor-singer Jason Donovan is 45.■ Sunday, June 2. Happy birthday to ToniGianarelli. Comedian Tom Gleeson is 39.Yumi Stynes was born in Swan Hill, 38 yearsago.■ Monday, June 3. Tracy Grimshaw (ACurrent Affair) was born 53 years ago.■ Tuesday, June 4. TV-radio man ‘Baby’John Burgess is 70. Melbourne TV-radio manMike Williamson is 85.

■ It is handy if publicists know and include thetime for PR events in the invfitations they send tothe press.■ About 550 people were expected last night(Tues.) at the Eat Street event being held at theSofitel Melbourne On Collins. Melbourne'stop restaurants and beverage suppliers host guestswho wander from station to station tasting signa-ture dishes from each restaurant, including Taxi,Flower Drum, The Point, Coda, CumulusInc, Maha Bar and Grill, PM24 and Cha-teau Yering.■ Melbourne singer-songwriter BenHazlewood, who featured on The Voice last year,has just released his EP, Loveless.■ Tex Perkins is returning yet again for an-other season of the Johnny Cash tribute, ManIn Black, at the Athenaeum Theatre from July19.■ The Starlight Five Chefs Dinner was heldat the Melbourne Convention an ExhibitionCentre on Friday (May 24), with MahliaBarnes singing, and Matt Tilley hosting. Chefswere Mark Best of Pei Modern & Marque,Pierrick Boyer of Le Petit Gateau, GuyGrossi of Grossi Florentino, Dan Hunterof Royal Mail Hotel, Karen Martini of Mr.Wolf, and Tony Panetta from MCEC.■ With this week’s launch of King Kong, ZoosVictoria CEO Jenny Gray has picked the righttime to launch her campaign to save the criticallyendangered Western Lowland Gorilla.■ Artists from the Victorian College of theArts at the University of Melbourne, willtransform The Hotel Windsor, into art spacelater this year, to celebrate its 130th anniversary.

■ Margo McLaren of Windsor e-mails:“There has been much controversy over a 13-year-old’s ‘ape’ insult to Adam Goodes at thefooty over the weekend. However I am old enoughto remember when South Melbourne cham-pion Bob Skilton’s nickname was ‘TheChimp’, and the League Teams boys (BobDavis, Jack Dyer, Lou Richards0 wereknown as ‘the three wise monkeys’.■ Publicist Kerry O’Brien tells us that a sec-ond Bon Jovi show has been added for Mel-bourne. The Australian tour kicks off atEtihad Stadium on Saturday-Sunday, Decem-ber 7-8.

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Your Stars with Christina La Cross


ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 20)Many of you rams are likely to be tidying the effect of last night’s words. You can try toexplain that it was the full moon but you'd be better heard if you began with an apology.TAURUS (APR 21 - MAY 21)You can say you're wishing you were back in a time gone by, but aspects suggest you'reremembering things through rose coloured spectacles my friend. Focus on the here andnow, there's much to admire!GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21)If you're not going to forgive a close one then you're better to both move on. To make youboth suffer in this way is causing you more harm than you both can stand, isn't it?CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23)It took a long time to get here, but from today you're finally starting to feel as if you'reliving life again. Just remember Cancer, that you're the one who can and should set thepace. Don't be ruled.LEO (JULY 24 - AUG 23)News of a celebration or an announcement you hear gives you reason to question yourown life. Decisions you reach by the end of this month can see you becoming the personyou'd dreamed.VIRGO (AUG 24 - SEPT 23)Keeping to your promises and appointments you've made can make those who havedoubted you have to eat their words. You were lost for a bit but you're back. Time to startliving instead of existing.LIBRA (SEPT 24 - OCT 23)What point is all the hard work you've put into life if you're not allowing yourself timeand space to reap the rewards? Come on my friend, today offers you the perfect chanceto celebrate.SCORPIO (OCT 24 - NOV 22)You may find yourself having to admit something you would rather deny. If you don't,then you could be cast as a liar. Telling your story from the start can help both sides findsome common ground.SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23 - DEC 21)The Sun brings out your more exhibitionist nature and you could find yourself doingthings you will come to regret tomorrow. Know how far is too far before you go outplease Sagittarius.CAPRICORN (DEC 22 - JAN 20)You're feeling drained, but that's more to do with the fact that you haven't been listing toyour body's needs. You wouldn't treat a friend this way. Downtime you take today easesyour load.AQUARIUS (JAN 21 - FEB 19)You can only try so many times to convince someone of your beliefs and after that youhave to move on and seek understanding elsewhere. That appears to be what's happeningtoday Aquarius.PISCES (FEB 20 - MARCH 20)People are listening when you talk today, so beware of giving out flippant advice, or youcould be responsible for supporting others' bad decisions. However, ideas you have to-night are worth acting on.

■ Inaniloquent. Pertaining to idle talk

Word Of The Week

HOORAY FOR GAVIN WOOD

ObserverMelbourne

West Hollywood

Gavin Wood

From my Suite at the

Ramada Plaza Complex

on Santa Monica Blvd

From my Suite at theRamada Plaza Complex onSanta Monica Blvd, WestHollywood comes thisweek's news.

■ The Ramada Plaza wasoriginally the Tropicana Ho-tel in the 60s and 70s.

Legendary stars stayed hereon the way up and also on theway down.

Jim Morrison and his bandthe Doors, Janis Joplin, TheByrds and many more from thatincredible era.

Across Santa MonicaBlvd, there is a restaurant thatused to be a recording studio andthat is where the Doors re-corded L.A. Woman.

Starstruck!

■ I was having lunch withRamada Plaza Managing Di-rector Alan Johnson and inter-national film director RodHardy at a new Italian res-taurant called Riva Bella at9201 Sunset Blvd and the starsin Hollywood always checkout new restaurants.

I looked up and in walkedTaylor Lautner from the Twi-light movies, thank heavensthere were no screaming fansthere otherwise we couldn'thave heard our waiter.

We were then at the Valetstand waiting for our car to ar-rive and before us were 10Beverly Hills ladies picking uptheir brand new Mercedes cars,yes they live well in BeverlyHills.

I overheard one of the ladiessay, "Natalie did you get yourgift?"

I looked closely and it wasNatalie Cole, pop star anddaughter of Nat King Cole.

I was too nervous to ap-proach her and say ‘Hi’ so I justadmired her from a distance.

She seemed like she was awonderful lady.

●●●●● The Ramada Plaza on Santa Monica Blvd

●●●●● Samantha Bryan with Alan Johnson

●●●●● Riva Bella at 9201 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood●●●●● Natalie Cole

●●●●● Taylor Lautner

●●●●● The Tropicana in the 1960s before

the Ramada refurbished the property.

●●●●● Max Merritt celebrated his 72nd birthday

Come and join me

■ It's now summer in California and the weather is always good.I like a nice dry heat. Come on over and join me by the pool at

the Ramada Plaza Complex.Peace Out,

Gavin Wood.

www.gavinwood.us

www.gavinwood.us

Busy Aussies

■ Recording here in L.A. atthe moment is Leanne King-well from St Kilda.

I have heard some of thetracks and she will be a break-through artist.

Her songs are amazing.Leanne is recording at CactusStudios with David J.Holman who worked withOlivia Newton-John throughGrease and Xanadu.■ J.R. Reyne, son of James,is also recording here and inTexas.

Both are incredible talentsand should be very successful.■ I had the pleasure of cel-ebrating Max Merritt's 72ndbirthday with the L.A. Chapterof the Debonairs in Wood-land Hills last week.

I took Alan Johnson fromthe Ramada Plaza Complexdowntown to a great new Aussiepie shop called ‘The BronzedAussie’, a venture thatSamantha Bryan has under-taken.

Let me tell you, all Aussiesliving in L.A. are very pleasedthat she has opened her doors.

●●●●● J.R. Reyne



■ Hazel Phillips has worked in showbusinessin Australia for more than 50 years and has hada remarkable career in television, stage and film.

Hazel was born in Battersby, a little villagein Yorkshire, England, in 1929.

In 1950 Hazel and her fiancé Bill emigratedto Australia and married the following year.

They had two boys, Mark and Scott. In 1956Hazel entered a talent quest titled The Searchfor Miss TV and porceeded into the grand finalwith a classical piano comedy act.

The prize was £500 and although Hazel didn'twin the quest when she went onstage to collect aconsolation prize of a bunch of flowers, the wholeaudience stood up and gave her a standing ova-tion.

At that moment Hazel Phillips decided shewanted to be in showbusiness

In 1961 the family were involved in a seriouscar accident and Hazel received severe injuriesto her chin.

The marriage broke up and Hazel raised hertwo boys alone. She got a job singing in the choirof the variety television series Revue 61.

This led to a regular job with Channel 7 as apanellist on Beauty And The Beast which washosted by Eric Baume.

Then Hazel became a regular on The MavisBramston Show with Barry Creyton, CarolRaye and Gordon Chater.

In 1966 Hazel toured Australia in the stagemusical The Boys From Syracuse with Ted

WhateverHappened

To ...Hazel

PhillipsBy Kevin Trask

of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

- Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, May 29, 2013

●●●●● Hazel Phillips

Logie Awards for the most popular Female Per-sonality on Australian television.

She appeared in a Brisbane Shakespeare InThe Park production of The Merry Wives OfWindsor directed by Geoffrey Rush.

Hazel's television guest roles include A Coun-try Practice, Number 96, Boney, G.P, Matlock Po-lice and Brides Of Christ.

In 1989 Hazel appeared alongside fellow fe-male Gold Logie winners Lorrae Desmond,Pat McDonald, Denise Drysdale, JeanneLittle and Rowena Wallace in the opening num-ber of the TV Week Logie Awards.

In 2005 Hazel was awarded a Medal of theOrder of Australia in the Queen's BirthdayHonours for service to the entertainment indus-try.

In 2008 Hazel published her autobiographyBlack River, Bright Star.

Hazel appeared on the television seriesAustralia's Got Talent as a contestant to supporther son Scott in 2011 and went on to perform inthe semi-finals.

Hazel Phillips will be our special guest inter-view guest during That's Entertainment on96.5FM, Sunday, June 9 at 12 Noon.

- Kevin TraskThe Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil - Sundays

at 8.20pm on 3AWThat's Entertainment - 96.5FM

Sundays at 12 Noon96.5FM is streaming on the internet. To listen,

go to www.innerfm.org.au

NIGHTS UNDERGROUND AT COOBER PEDY■ Last year I undertook an Outbackjourney with a few mates, and I amabout to embark again on the same ad-venture.

I'll start from Melbourne on Mon-day morning, and reach Adelaide thatnight.

Then, the next day to Streaky Bay,on the Great Australian Bight.

This delightful little town is notedfor its oysters, often on the menu ofmost restaurants Australia- wide.

Then, the next day is the highlightof the trip - a trek along the GawlerRanges Track, about 300 kms of sandand salt lakes, up to Kingoonya, andthen on to Coober Pedy.

I haven't been to an operatingKingoonya Pub since 1966: the lastcouple of times I've been through it'sbeen closed.

The first time everything, everyhouse and building, was empty - a ghosttown.

Last time, however, a few peoplehad moved back, and it was just aboutto reopen.

We missed it by a day - even thoughhe had a trailer load of beer, the newpublican had lost his keys.

This time, everything is up and run-ning.

Then another 300 kms to CooberPedy, and a couple of nights under-ground.

■ Once, early in Australia's history,rum replaced money as a method ofcurrency.

That shows how far our love affairwith booze goes back.

Years ago I had a Spanish girl inmy shop, and we discussed the varioussocial mores of our respective coun-tries.

"If someone is invited to a party inSpain, and gets drunk, they would notbe invited back again," she told me.

"It's exactly the opposite in Austra-lia," I told her.

Every party or pub I ever went to inmy 20s and 30s it was the same - if youarrived late you'd skoll a few quicklydown to catch up with everyone else.Stone cold sober - a social disgrace. Atleast in the circles in which I mixed.

Now there's a move afoot in the NTto ban alcohol advertising at sportingevents, with advocates claiming that ifthis happens, alcohol consumption willautomatically decrease.

I don't think so.Apart from the situation of lost rev-

enue for sporting clubs, forcing many

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TheOutbackLegend

with Nick Le Souef

to close, alcohol consumption is so in-grained into the Australia psyche, es-pecially in the NT, that this wouldmake no difference.

The anti-booze authorities wouldneed to dig deep into the subconsciousmind of every drinker in Australia forany difference to be made.

Maybe a series of mass hypnotisms.

■ The world over there is always theproblem of keeping indigenous speciesin a healthy state, and Mother Naturein a state of balance.

We haven't done a very good job ofthis anywhere in the world, especiallyAustralia.

We've introduced creatures andplants to our continent which have beenextremely inappropriate.

Foxes, cats, rats, Indian mynahs,blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, toads,just to name a few; and of course thecows and horses and camels and don-keys, which continue to decimate somuch of our precious flora and fauna.

In the Centre, the Thick BilledGrass Wren and the Central Hare-Wallaby have gone.

But there are many other creatures

which are still hopping and slitheringand flying around that we need to takeextra care of.

There is the Waddy Wood, SlatersSkink, and the Palm Valley Palm, forinstance.

So there's a program which has justbeen launched in Alice, calledBiodiversity Matters, to create notonly awareness of the importance ofbiodiversity, but also to show how ev-eryone can actively pay a part.

The local Arid Lands Environ-ment Centre runs the program, andthey're trying to educate locals on thechallenges faced.

"There's always pressure fromweeds, feral pests, tourism impacts,altered fire regimes and erosion," saysNicol Pitsch.

Good on them!

■ We don't hear much about themthese days, but they're still thriving inAlice Springs.

Scouts.I started off as a Cub in Kyabram,

then into First Sorrento Sea Scouts.Granted there are skills I learned in

the Scouts which I don't need to useanymore, such as putting up an old can-vas tent with its guy ropes and poles -any tents I put up these days are far sim-pler affairs with flimsy little supports,clicking into each other, rather thanhaving to be lashed together.

However, I still splice ropes, startcampfires, tie knots, clean fish and skinrabbits, all of which I learned all thoseyears ago whilst being prepared.

Alice Springs just celebrated itsninetieth anniversary, and the 21st birth-day of the new hall.

The ceremony was attended byAllison Anderson, a Walpiri lady,the new Minister for Children and Fami-lies, the NT Chief Commissioner MrMcCorkell, and Damien Ryan, theMayor.

There are 65 scouts enrolled in thelocal troop, but unlike my day, there areGirl Scouts floating around too,

"The whole program is used to helpothers to live by a good conduct," saidMr McCorkell.

I used to love donning my Sea Scouthat, my scarf and my woggle!

■ I love to drive around the country,but in the relative comfort of my auto-mobile.

I have only owned one motor bike -I planned to ride it from Kew to Rose-bud every day.

I arrived at Frankston in peak hourtraffic on the first winter's morning, and,frozen and terrified, I swore that myreturn to Kew that night would spellthe end of my motor cycling career.

And it did.However, an Indian fellow called

Sundeep Gajjar has been riding amotorbike around the world since 2006.

And, like so many other adventur-ers, passed through Alice and the week-end.

He was here in 2007, and rode22,000 kms around the country then.

"Why?" I wondered.He wants to explore and discover

the world, photographing as he motorsaround.

He blogs each night when he goesback to his hotel, and he's sponsoredby various related Indian businesses,and also runs a magazine in India.

He's off to the Rock, then Darwin,WA, Kangaroo Island, and finishesin Melbourne.

Turbans off to him.- Nick Le Souef

‘The Outback Legend’

●●●●● Kingoonya Pub

Hamilton, Brian Hannan and NancyeHayes.

In 1967 Hazel left Channel 7 to join the 0 -10 Network as the hostess of a chat show titledGirl Talk.

At this stage Hazel had became a national tele-vision personality. On a visit to Hollywood sheinterviewed 52 famous Hollywood stars in 19days.

These included Omar Sharif, JeanSimmons, Cornel Wilde and CharltonHeston.

Hazel went to the home of Bing Crosby andhe talked about his romance with Grace Kellyduring the filming of High Society.

In 1967, Hazel won both Gold and Bronze

Victorian bodies lose status■ A number of Victorian organisations will soon lose their incorporationstatus, advises Deputy Registrar David Betts:

Imagine Initiative Inc.; The Market Precinct Inc.; Foster’s EventsInc.; Friends of Yarra Flats Billabongs Inc.; Parent Carer’s Sup-port Network North West Region Inc.; Speaking Out For AutismInc.; B-Mpowered Inc.; Council of Florinians Abroad Inc.; Focusand Beyond Inc.; The Gannet Dive Club Inc.; Doc United FootballClub Inc.; The Limited Sportsman Speedway Association Inc.;Malvern Women’s Day Inc.; 3 Big Men Productions Inc.; WhiteWhale Theatre Inc.; Hepatitis Awareness Victoria Inc.; Bass CoastKayak Club Inc.; Australian Kite Association Inc.; Loaves andFishes Community Housing Inc.; Australian Centre for Commu-nity Development Inc.; Laurel Club of Casterton Inc.; StatewideAboriginal Community Justice Panel Program Chairpersons Ad-visory Body Inc.; Youthcom Inc.; Victorian and Tasmanian Foun-dation For Education Inc.; Tallangatta Town Club Inc.; LifestyleChristian Church Inc.; Melbourne Tamil Mission Inc.;Campbellfield Heights Kindergarten Inc.; Juventus Soccer ClubInc.; Melbourne Juventus Social Club Inc.; Yarra Plenty ChurchInc.; MontmorencyEltham RSL Sub-Branch Inc.; Surf Coast ChurchInc.; Boulevard Beautiful Conservancy Inc.; Collingwood Commu-nity Information Centre Inc.; Creative Futures Collective Inc.; Aus-tralian Irish Heritage Network Inc.; The Numurkah CommunityShed Inc.; Events India Inc.; New Chinese Language & CultureSchool Inc.; The Probus Club of Beaumaris Heights Inc.; RiddellSkate Park Inc.; Ecoinfinity Inc.; Medrek Ethiopia in Australia Inc.;Diamond Creek Soccer Club Inc.; The Honeysuckles Action GroupInc.; Lions Club of Westernport Inc.; Adlib Theatre for Youth Inc.;Vision Resources Inc.

TV Nostalgia Historic Photo Collection

●●●●● TV cameraman Brendan McKenna marries 'Lovely Anne' Watt of HSV-7'sHappy Show at Our Lady of Mt Carmel's Church, Middle Park. Circa 1965.●●●●● Will Alma. Herald Sun TV. Melbourne Showgrounds. 1953.

●●●●● Fan cards of Happy Hammond and Vic ‘Funny Face’ Gordon. HSV-7. 1960s.

●●●●● Clive Winmill, compere of ABV-2's Children's Hour. 1962. ●●●●● Syd Heylen and Bill Collins. Sunnyside Up. HSV-7. Circa 1958.

●●●●● Tell the Truth panel. HSV7. 1964. F,rom left Brian Dixon, Lynn Flanagan,Kevin Dennis and Deidre Neylon. ●●●●● Honest John Gilbert. Sunnyside Up. HSV-7. 1961.

●●●●● Corinne Kirby. ABV-2. 1961.

Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 -

Victoria Pictorial Sunday Drives

●●●●● Werribee Gorge, Bacchus Marsh.●●●●● Drift In Coffee Lounge, Somers.

●●●●● Botanical Gardens, Maryborough.

●●●●● The Beach, Cowes. ●●●●● Main street, Warburton.

●●●●● Point Nepean Rd, Rosebud ●●●●● Mollison St, Kyneton

●●●●● Dava Lodge, Mornington.


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