Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak, who portrayed Mel Gibson’s young daughter in the 2000 film The Patriot, died in her Houston home, her mother said Sunday (local time). She was 21.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have apparently invested in a body double for their daughter North. This method is considered common in Hollywood, and the doubles are regularly used when film stars can’t film their own stunts.

Few actors could register disbelief, exasperation or annoyance with more comic subtlety.

Anika Moa has won two national awards for her beautifully crafted children’s music. The winners in the New Zealand Children’s Music Awards were announced live on What Now yesterday by Jason Kerrison, a first for the show

This year’s season of Young and Hungry at Bats Theatre in Wellington, the 20th, has an eclectic mix of themes but one feature consistent with all three is a laptop, and of course the internet.

The world changed, if only a little, on July 17, 1988, in a hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia.

Who lives in a painaporo under te moana Spongebob Squarepants. Well, for the next two months, at least.

Celebrity chef Ross Burden has died suddenly following cancer treatment aged 45. Burden, who was born in Napier, hosted Ready Steady Cook in the United Kingdom after appearing in the British Masterchef final in 1993.

Actor Gavin Rutherford knows he’s filling some very big shoes. In playwright Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge he stars as Italian American Eddie Carbone, who works on the Brooklyn docks.

Kiwi singer-songwriter legend Neil Finn is taking his latest album “Dizzy Heights” on the road.