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Film review: Palo Alto
From American Graffiti to Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Spring Breakers, stories about teenagers and their experiments with vices and struggles with families have been cinematic catnip for decades. And as a way of graphic illustration, here is the third generation of Coppola to tackle the subject.
Soundtrack to my life: Karl Kippenberger
Karl Kippenberger is bass guitarist with Wellington hard rock band, Shihad, now based in Melbourne.
Nineties nostalgia once over lightly
OPINION: I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I didn’t inhale.
Freddie Mercury’s phantom
How strange to be Adam Lambert. Here he is, a global pop star in his own right, now touring the world playing understudy to a ghost.
Peter Stichbury is painting perfect
“They’re wax,” says the artist, pointing to the perfectly round, perfectly iced, perfectly cocoa-sprinkled chocolate cookies cooling in neat rows on the baking tray in the nothing-out-of-place kitchen.
Jackson surprised by King Kong prequel
Sir Peter Jackson, who directed the 2005 King Kong remake, was caught by surprise at news a prequel to the story is being made. Studio Legendary reportedly caused a certain amount of confusion among fans at Comic Con in San Diego last weekend with footage from the prequel, called Skull Island, which until then hardly anyone knew existed
Orlando Bloom: I’m everyone’s hero
Orlando Bloom says he’s being hailed for his “heroism” by Justin Bieber haters. The British actor allegedly got into a physical altercation with the pop star at Cipriani restaurant in Ibiza early Wednesday morning.
Sam Neill’s straight and narrow career
Actor Sam Neill says he’s “always been absurdly straight and narrow”. The comment was made in response to a question about Neill’s recent work playing a police officer and a former officer in shows in Britain and Australia
Piers Morgan, Larry King trade verbal blows
Clearly, former CNN prime time hosts Larry King and Piers Morgan are not big fans of each other. After King derided Morgan’s interview skills and called him pompous, Morgan responded on Twitter that King was a “graceless, petty little man”.