The Curtis method

Missing from our screens for some time, Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis is back with a vengeance this month – not only starring in a new prime-time TV series in the US, but also his first New Zealand feature in almost a decade. James Croot catches up with him.

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Biggest Dylan fan’s challenge

“I’ve eaten, breathed, melted, swallowed, washed and sucked in Dylan’s records,” says Hamilton’s Chris Baigent, who claims to be New Zealand’s biggest Bob Dylan fan. The lead singer and songwriter for the band River’s Edge reckons he rightly earned that title after living in poverty for six months in Cambridge, England, in order, he says, to dedicate himself entirely to studying Dylan’s discography – and he is challenging other Dylan fans to topple his self-proclaimed status.

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Melissa McCarthy stars in ‘dream project’

One humid night last June, on a dock along one of this port city’s winding creeks, Melissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates took their places for a scene in the new movie Tammy. Five years earlier, McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, had written the role with Bates in mind – the Oscar winner was to deliver a needed dressing down to McCarthy’s title character, a perennial screw-up.

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