Category Archives: Political

In the PR-driven, image-controlled world of Hollywood it is a rare sight to see an actress being publicly called to account for her “difficult” reputation. But former Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl found herself under fire this week, fielding at-times hostile questions about whether she and her mother Nancy, who is also her manager, were difficult to work with

It’s been an astonishing 25 years since the show about nothing – Seinfeld – first hit screens and forever changed how we felt about soup kitchens, pretzels and white sneakers.

Two young women from Belgium who met each other in New Zealand have put together a photographic exhibition in Hamilton featuring the experiences of refugees. The show, titled Take a Walk in My Shoes, officially opened at the Agora Cafe in Frankton recently to recognise World Refugee Day.

Robert Pattinson is known for his silly comments and sometimes-fictional stories, and he has been keeping the oddness coming while promoting The Rover. Like when he talked to Jimmy Kimmel about erotic spitting and told POPSUGAR on the red carpet that he could “probably live in trash quite easily.” Well, the fun doesn’t stop there

Gary Oldman has apologised for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their controversial remarks about Jews and gays. “I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people,” Oldman wrote in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League

Sirius Black has defended another outcast – Mel Gibson.

New Zealand’s top children’s book this year comes with an awkward name – The Boring Book. Written and illustrated by Vasanti Unka of Auckland, The Boring Book has taken out the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year for children and young adult books

A tale of what it was like to grow up Maori in the 1970s and 80s quietly percolated in its creator’s mind for 16 years until the heat suddenly went on. Nancy Brunning had begun writing Hikoi to keep her mind active when she was pregnant in 1995

Casey Kasem, the internationally famous radio host with the cheerful manner and gentle voice who became the king of the top 40 countdown with a syndicated show that ran for decades, has died.