Now that this year's 'V' 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking Challenge is under way and 160 Wellington teams are out enjoying the sunshine, I have had a chance to resolve a…
Read More
The incomparable Elaine Stritch is doing Beckett's Endgame in New York: I always remember the story of the woman who understudied Lena Horne in some Broadway musical. And she was…
Read More
Many years ago English comedian Ben Elton cracked a joke about Bob Dylan: "For all you young people in the audience he was the one who couldn't sing on the…
Read More
The lovely people at Panasonic have lent all the City Managers for the 'V' 48 Hour Furious Filmmaking Competition (of which I am one) a Hard Drive DVD Recorder so…
Read More
W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 novel The Painted Veil has been given a handsome new adaptation by Australian director John Curran (We Don't Live Here Anymore). Naomi Watts takes on the…
Read More