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Hef and Marilyn

■ Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy magazine who died at 91, is being buried in a Los Angeles crypt that he bought in 1992 next to that of Marilyn Monroe – once confiding he’d paid US$75,000 for the crypt “as spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up on.”

Ironically, although each helped the other become famous – she was on the cover of the first edition of Hefner’s Playboy in 1953 and was the magazine’s first nude centre-fold – the two never met.

The Monroe photos were in fact four years old when published, Marilyn having been paid all of US$50 in 1949 by pin-up photographer Tom Kelley who on-sold them to a Chicago calendar company, that in turn sold some to Hefner four years later for US$500.

Nothing beyond the original $50 ever went to Marilyn, who is quoted in her biography as saying she was “embarrassed, even ashamed” of the photos, but as a struggling young actress desperate for the money at the time.

Marilyn Monroe is buried in Crypt Number 24 at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, having died of a drug overdose in August 1962 at just 36 years of age.

- David Ellis

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■ This exhibition celebrates the creative achievements of three generations of the Boyd family, one of Australia's most extraordinary and talented artistic families.

Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition includes a rich selection of paintings, watercolours, drawings and ceramics by Emma Minnie Boyd, Doris Boyd, Lucy Boyd Beck, Mary Boyd, Yvonne, Hernia Boyd and other artists from the Boyd family.

Exhibition dates October 8 - December 10. ★ Floor talk: Tansy Curtin - Bendigo Art Gallery" Join Bendigo Art Gallery Curatorial Manager Tansy Curtin for an engaging talk about the work and career of artist Emma Minnie Boyd.

The talk will focus on her iconic painting Afternoon Tea 1888 - on loan from the collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery.

Friday October 28 at 12pm. Free admission.

Bookings Essential ★ Diane Soumilas - Curator.

Glen Eira City Council Gallery Curator Diane Soumilas will present a talk about the exhibition and the careers of the women from this extraordinary family and artistic milieu in the 20th century.

Friday October 27 at 12.30-pm Free admission Bookings Essential ★ Polly Boyd - artist.

Artist Polly Boyd (daughter of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd) will share her memories of Open Country Murrumbeena in the early 1950s and present a discussion about the art of her mother Yvonne Boyd, and her grandmother Doris Boyd.

Friday November 3 at 11am, Free Entry Bookings Essential . ★ Jennifer Thompson - Bundanon Trust Bundanon Trust's Collections and Exhibition Manager Jennifer Thompson, will discuss works on this exhibition created by women artists from the Boyd family, many sourced from Bundanon Trust's collection.

Friday November 10 at 12.30pm. Free Entry Bookings essential.

Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Rds, Caulfield. Phone 9524 3333.

NGA art travels

■ The National Gallery of Australiawill present an extensive survey of significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in Berlin this November.

Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia will present more than 199 artworks by over 60 artists, exploring indigenous Australian culture, ancient rituals, mythology, country, identity, politics and race in one of the biggest exhibitions of indigenous art to be held outside Australia.

From traditional bark paintings to photography, multimedia and sculpture, the comprehensive exhibition includes some of Australia's most significant artists - Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Albert Namatjira, Tommy McRae, VernonAh Kee, Yhonnue Scarce and many more.

Gerard Vaughan, NGADirector said. “This is a special opportunity o showcase the rich and complex visual art of Indigenous Australia to Europe and the world.

“Berlin is a renowned centre of global contemporary art practice attracting huge numbers of arts engaged visitors.

“The second half of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in indigenous art practice, whereby the incredible paintings and sculptures of Aboriginal Australians were recognised as art rather than artefacts, and increasingly as a contemporary art movement of global significance and interest.”

Alliance Francaise When Art becomes Advertising.

From October 5 to November 4 the Alliance Française de Melbourne is welcoming an exceptional exhibition of advertising posters created by some of the biggest French artists of the 20th century.

Brett Ross, collector and owner of the Letitia

Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.36.34.45.

Not the wisest time to play hunches or to take a gamble on career affairs unless everything is in writing. Most of what you say and do could be noted by authority.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 6.2.3.5.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.29.8.11.

Energy levels should be high and a career venture shaping up nicely. Money for most could be easier to come by.

There will be many new people around you, however don't forget old friends.

● Peter Kemp Morris gallery - partner of the event - shares with us his passion for these colourful and creative graphic works,.

In Australia, Brett Ross is also making the most of an increasing interest in post-war works which are being purchased more and more to decorate the interiors of wealthy home owners.

Posters from the 1900s - 1930s are magnificent, but with the advertising boom in the 50s, you can now find more recent gems that combine sophisticated graphic design with a great sense of humour.

Is Graphic Design in Advertising a LesserArt? Not for Brett Ross.

Indeed, certain painters such as Picasso or Chagall created their own posters to advertise their exhibitions, refusing to restrict themselves to reproducing one of their paintings.

The golden age of these types of posters seems to have nevertheless long passed.

Brett Ross still reassures us, recalling Andy Warhol as well as the work of Michel Quarez.

In any case he continues to rummage through old French warehouses in search if rare pieces, which aren't widely circulated but are still intact. So even in years to come, incredible posters could suddenly reappear from the past.

Alliance Française de Melbourne, 51 Grey St, St. Kilda.

NGA - Canberra Hyper Real.

Giants, Clones and Fantastic Flesh: The Wondrous World of Hyper Real at The NGA. Featuring astonishing life-like depictions of the human form in sculpture, video, digital art, virtual reality and bio-art Hyper Real charts the evolution of hyperrealism since the early 1970s and invites visitors to experience the familiar in extraordinary ways.

Hyper Real goes beyond traditional sculptural representation of the body.

Patricia Piccini's uncanny yet inviting fantasy world blends human and animal attributes, Marc Quinn's sculpted self-portrait is filled with litres of his own blood, Shaun Gladwell's virtual reality experience provides a disconcerting journey through the human skull, and Russian collective AES+f's 360 degree video installation turns the assumed natural order of society on its head.

“This is an exciting international spectrum of hyperreal art - from the colossal scale dwarfing visitors to the minute detail of the replicated human body - the weird, wonderful and uncanny will be on display this October,” said Gerard Vaughan, NGA Director' Hyper Real presents nearly 50 works from hyperrealism's inception to the new world already upon us, with a strong focus on the exceptional talents of Australian artists, whose contribution to the fields of hyperrealism are of global significance'.

Like Mueck's mother-too-be, 32 groundbreaking artists including eightAustralians place an intense focus on how we look at humanity through representations of the human body.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the NGA and curator Otto Letze of the Institute for Cultural Exchange Germany.

The exhibition opens October 20 and runs to February 18.

- Peter Kemp

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Violet Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 2.3.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.26.34.40.45.

If you have had trouble with people in the past the same can happen again, avoid known trouble makers. Personal connections will be helpful, avoid mixing work and love affairs. Your public affairs should be in for quite a boost.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: Cream Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.36.39.5 Be very tactful in all personal relationships as this can be a very tense period. People in a position to help improve your financial affairs could be well disposed towards you and in money and career affairs it could be a good time to ask for favours.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.24.40.33.

A choice between business and love affairs may be difficult to make. Career advancement is indicated and the domestic situation will sort itself out. Most will be in for a greater choice socially than usual.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day:Wednesday Racing Numbers: 2.3.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.25.24.40.44.

Most will have a lot to be happy about. Married life should be more fulfilling. The singles will meet interesting new suitors. Pay strict attention to any property transactions or someone could trick you.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.26.34.40.45.

Now is the time for a health check up or to seek to correct any health problems. Don't start any financial deals unless everything is in writing. However more profitable times are ahead.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Peach Lucky Day: Green Racing Numbers: 9.6.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 9.12.26.35.40.45.

Good news coming your way, which could involve travel.

Romance looks great and many invitations to socialize are indicated. Career advancement for the worker and something you gave up on comes good.

SAGITTARIUS: (November23- December 20) Lucky Colour: Silver Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 2.3.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.26.35.40.45.

If you are prepared o accept responsibilities and work hard the rewards will more than compensate. A very romantic period, singles could decide to become doubles, some will be coming close to the move that they want to make.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Pink Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 2.3.5.6.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.29.6.14.45.

The wiser will keep secrets to themselves. Consider others feeling first. Love interests are under fortunate vibes, and many will benefit financially. An out of the way place could be full of romantic surprises.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Yellow Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 4.6.8.9.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.25.8.36.30.

Keep criticisms under control if you want to keep your friends. Don't provoke situations that you know will bring trouble. It is best to keep a low profile for now.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 4.6.8.7.

Lotto Numbers: 7.15.29.38.4.33.

Wiser to listen politely to the viewpoints of others or you could step on the wrong toes. Socially many will be climbing higher. You'll be happier if you keep some of your time to your loved ones.

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Melbourne Arts Victorian Opera

■ Victorian Opera has announced its 2018 season.

It opens with the Australian premiere of Rossini's final opera William Tell.

The legendary tale of the sharp shooting hero on a quest for freedom makes for grand opera: a struggle for liberty against oppression and the courage that victory demands.

Season: July 14, 17, 19. Venue" Palais theatre St. Kilda. ★ The next opera is The Capulets and the Montagues. One night in Verona.

Love and tragedy intertwine in Bellini's take on the original heart breaker. Unmistakable melodies soar with rich lyricism and sublime beauty as inevitable devastation unfolds on stage.

Season: Friday September 14. Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne Hamer Hall, ★ October sees Pelleas and Melisande - A family torn apart. A love too great for this world.

When Golaud finds Melisande in the woods, alone and with a mysterious past, he claims her as his wife. After she meets his brother Pelleas, however, a secret love simmers between them, Season: October 11 and 13. Venue: Palais Theatre. St. Kilda. ★ November sees Lorelei.: I like my men like I like my whiskey… on the Rocks.

Ancient myth meets modern woman in an allegory of resilience and reclaiming one's destiny.

Lorelei is a take-no prisoners, smash themon-the-rocks wild woman; a romantic, compassionate, trusting woman; a sensible, rational woman. A present day enchantress, her past is heartbreak and her future promises haunting self-discivery.

Season: November 3, 7, 8, 19. Venue: Merlyn Theatre The Coopers Malthouse.

- Peter Kemp

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Chess at Old Scotch

■ OSMaD (Old Scotch Music and Drama Club) presents Chess the Musical from October 19 – 28 at the Geoffrey McComas Theatre, Scotch College Campus, Hawthorn.

Directed by Alan Burrows, with musical direction by Martine Wengrow and choreography

by Diane Crough, chess is used during the show as a metaphor for romantic rivalries and the USSoviet rivalry during the Cold War. From Bangkok to Budapest, the players, lovers, politicians and spies all struggle to get the upper-hand.

Performance Details: October 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 at 7.45pm, October 22 at 3.00pm Venue: Geoffrey McComas Theatre, James Forbes Academy, Scotch College Campus, 1 Morrison St., Hawthorn. ● Zak Brown, Candice Sweetman, Tickets: $45/$40/$30.

Bookings: www.osmad.com.au/shows/ Owen Clarke, Nic Russ, Robbie Medica, Emily McKenzie and Ian Frost in Chess. chess.html Photo: John Shelbourn - Cheryl Threadgold

Thoroughly Modern Millie

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● Clinton Gin (Bun Foo), Natasha Bassett (Mrs Meers), and Ju-Han Soon (Ching Ho) in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Photo: Gavin D Andrew ■ Babirra Music Theatre presents Thoroughly Modern Millie from October 6-14 at the Whitehorse Centre, Nunawading.

The show is set in 1922 and Millie Dillmount has arrived in New York from Kansas in search of a new life.

Her grand plans do not quite work out as expected and she encounters kidnappers, romance and some fun and crazy times, all set in a time when ‘moderns’ were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, entering the workforce and rewriting the rules of love.

Babirra Music Theatre’s production is directed by Karl McNamara, with musical direction by Vicki Quinn and choreography by Steve Rostron.

Performance Details: October 6 – 14 Venue: Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse rd., Nunawading.

Bookings: www.babirra.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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THE T OP 5 REJE CTED A CT S TOP REJECTED ACT CTS FOR THE GRAND FINAL ENTERT AINMENT ENTERTAINMENT 5.The Yarra Council choir singing the National Anthem.

4. Bernard Tomic singing "Money Money Money".

3. Margaret Court to sing "Same Song" at the NRL Grand Final.

2. Sophie Monk singing "I am always on my Mind".

1. Meatloaf singing anything!

Monash Uni Museum of Art The Humours Exploring how comedy and absurdity can be used to reveal more serious concerns about race, work, gender and politics.

The Humours bring together six international and Australian artists in a challenging and comical exhibition.

This exhibition of new commissions and recent works pays particular attention to the roles physicality and language play in unsettling perceptions through comedy.

The Humours includes moving image, photographic, installation and performance works.

It features new commissions from Australian artists Matthew Griffin and Barbara Cleveland.

Monash University Caulfield Campus.

Ground Floor Building F |900 Dandenong Rd. Caulfield East - Peter Kemp

Local Theatre Shows

■ Leongatha Lyric Theatre: Our Country's Good (by Timberlake Wertenbaker) Until October 7 at Mesley Hall, Nerrena Rd., Leongatha. Director: Sue Lindsay. Bookings: 0407 538 245.

■ The 1812 Theatre: Never the Sinner (by John Logan), October 5 - 28 at 3 - 5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Geoff Hickey.

Bookings: 97858 3964.

■ Babirra Music Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie October 6 - 14 at The Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading.

Director: Karl McNamara; Musical Director: Vicki Quinn; Choreographer: Steve Rostron. Bookings: www.babirra.org.au ■ MLOC Productions Inc: Shout! October 13 - 21 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Rhylee Nowell; Musical Director: Tim Ryan; Choreography: Sabrina Klock. Bookings: www.mloc.otg.au or 9551 7514.

■ Wyndham Theatre Company: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani), October 13 - 14, at the Joy Bevan Theatre, Wrrribee Secondary College Campus,Duncan's Rd., Werribee.

Director: Alaine Beek. Bookings: www.trybooking.com ■ Dionysus Theatre: Macbeth (by William Shakespeare) October 13 - 21 at McClelland College Performing Arts Centre, 26 Alexander Crescent, Frankston. Director: Emma Sproule. Bookings: www.dionysustheatre. com.au ■ Encore Theatre: Cactus Flower (by Abe Burrows) October 13 - 28 at 9 - 15 Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Ewen Crockett. Bookings: 1300 730 099.

■ OSMaD: Chess the Musical October 19 28 at the Geoffrey McComas Theatre, James Forbes Academy, Scotch College Campus, 1 Morrison Street, Hawthorn. Director: Alan Burrows: Musical Director: Martine Wengrow; Choreographer: Diane Crough.

Further details and bookings: www.osmad.com.au ■ CLOC Musical Theatre: A Chorus Line October 20 - 28 at the National Theatre, St Kilda. Director: Richard Perdriau; Musical Director: Daniel Heskett; Choreography: David Harford. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au or 1300 362 547.

■ Cathouse Players: Shut Your Eyes and Think of England (by John Chapman and Anthony Marriott) October 21 - 29 at Kyneton Masonic Centre, 7 Yaldwyn St., Kyneton. Director: Bette Sartore. Bookings: 0490 485 850 ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Twentieth Century (by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur) October 21 - 29 at 29a Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Nicholas Opolski.

Bookings: www.malverntheatre.com.au ■ Nova Music Theatre: Les Miserables October 28 - November 10 at The Whitehorse Centre,397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading.

Director: Noel Browne; Musical Director: Phil Osborne; Choreographer: Wayne Robinson. www.novamusictheatre.com.au

Auditions

■ Playhouse Players Inc: 16th Year National One Play Competition at East Malvern, October 1 at 2pm. Skin by Michael Olsen. 1F app 30yo. Call Michael 0418173029 and The Arrangement by Greg Roberts. 2M & 2F. Call Greg 0407276973 or playhouseplayers@hotmail.com ■ The 1812 Theatre: Calendar Girls October 1, 2 at 7.30pm at The 1812 Theatre, 5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: John Mills. Enquiries: 9758 3964.

■ Peridot Theatre: Rumors (by Neil Simon) October 22 at 7.00pm, October 23 at 7.30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: Eyawn Harry. Audition bookings: 0403 769 691.

■ The Basin Theatre Group: It's Never Too Late (by Ron Aldridge), October 23 at 7.00pm at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Christine Grant. Audition bookings: readrecdoll@gmail.com ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: The Elephant Man (by Bernard Pomerance )October 9, 11 at 7.00pm at the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre, Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Chris Shaw. Bookings: 0414 684 346.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: All the King's Women (by Luigi Jannuzzi) at the Guide Hall, GlebeAvenue, (off Charman Rd.), Cheltenham. Director: Barbara Crawford.

Enquiries: 0414 881 844.

- Cheryl Threadgold

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

US book launch for Les Twentyman ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

More Shut-Eye ■ A "catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic" is causing a host of potentially fatal diseases, a leading expert has said. In an interview with the Guardian, Professor Matthew Walker, director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep deprivation affected "every aspect of our biology" and was widespread in modern society.

And yet politicians and employers were not taking the problem seriously, with a desire to get a decent night's sleep often stigmatized as a sign of laziness, he said. Electric lights, television and computer screens, longer commutes, the blurring of the line between work and personal time, and a host of other aspects of modern life have contributed to sleep deprivation, which is defined as less than seven hours a night.

Mouth That Roared ■ It was a glittering affair in the Australia Board Room at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites for the book launch of Les Twentyman's book, The Mouth That Roared.

Les told some stories from his book, which captivated the sell out audience.

Stories of Les's connection with Homeboy Industries here in Los Angeles who raise funds to help former gang members and previously incarcerated men and woman turn their lives around.

Les takes these good deeds back to the western suburbs of Melbourne to improve conditions for the youth who need to find some solid ground.

Les's book sold out on this special night in L.A. as it has been doing in bookstores around Australia.

The book has been entered for two awards: the Walkely nonfiction, and the Victorian Premier Literacy Awards.

Comings and Goings

Playboy’s playboy dies ■ Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner's rise to become one of the world's most famous men began with a heartbreak that tore his life apart.

The glamour magazine's owner, who died last week at age 91, became known as a serial ladies' man during a career that lasted 64 years.

But it was the betrayal a young Hefner suffered at the hands of his first wife that marked his formative years and one that he went on to describe as "the most devastating moment" of his life.

He married Mildred Williams in 1949 in the belief the pair had 'saved themselves' for one another.

The couple had met at college in the mid 40s. Little did Chicago-born Hefner know that his beloved Milly had slept with another man while her beau served in the US military during the Second World War. Explaining his heartbreak, he said: "I think the relationship was probably held together by two years of foreplay.

"That wasn't unusual for our time. In fact, most of my immediate friends didn't have sex until they married. Milly and I had it just before.

"I had literally saved myself for my wife, but after we had sex she told me that she'd had an affair. That was the most devastating moment in my life.”

● Pictured at the book signing was Ramada Plaza and Suites Managing Director, Alan Johnson, who presented a special 'Ozcar' award for services to the community to Les Twentyman.

The President is Missing ■ Showtime is set to turn an upcoming novel written by Bill Clinton and James Patterson into a TV series, the network has announced. The novel, titled The President Is Missing is due for publication in June 2018 and the network has beat out other film studios and networks to acquire the rights.

Described by Showtime as the "startling story" of a sitting US. president's disappearance, the bookmarks the first time a former US president has co-authored a thriller. The series will be Clinton's first book-to-screen adaptation after writing three books since his departure from the White House in 2001.

Details on the plot are scarce, but a statement announcing the joint effort back in May promised "insider details that only a president can know." "Though fictional, the story brings to life the pressures and realities of the most important position in the world."

GDP Jumped to 3.1% ■ The US economic output grew at an annual rate of 3.1 percent this spring, the highest growth since 2015, according to new Commerce Department figures for the second quarter.

However, growth is expected to slow dramatically after the string of fierce hurricanes that slammed Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, with economists predicting that storm damage could cause Gross Domestic Product to fall by as much as 1.2 percentage points for the third quarter.

‘IT’ - a hit ■ "IT" has become a bona-fide phenomenon since its debut on September 8, breaking all box office expectations and shattering records left and right.

For New Line and Warner Bros., it's surely been nothing but celebration. Today the two studios have announced the release date for the sequel to IT as September 6, 2019, where it will debut in regular theaters and IMAX screens (for those who like to be even more terrified).

The movie has revived a sluggish summer box office, and continues to put up big numbers, as it becomes the highest-grossing R-rated horror movie in the US ever.

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

Costly imports ■ The population of illegal immigrants and their kids is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the most authoritative report on the issue yet.

And despite claims from pro-illegal immigration advocates that the aliens pay significant offsetting taxes back to federal, state and local treasuries, the Federation for American Immigration Reform report tallied just $19 billion, making the final hit to taxpayers about $116 billion. The costs, at over $88 billion, are ravaging state and local governments. The federal government, by comparison, is getting off easy at $45 billion in costs for illegals.

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Jay-Z too cool ■ Jay-Z apparently won't be following in the footsteps of his wife, Beyoncé.

Or those of Bruce Springsteen, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and the numerous others who have performed during the half-time show at the Super Bowl. According to a report by the Source earlier this week, the superstar rapper was offered the prestigious gig at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota on February 4, but turned it down.

■ British actor Colin Firth says he has taken Italian citizenship as a "sensible" move amid global political uncertainty. Firth, who is married to environmentalist Livia Giuggioli, says he has become a dual UK- Italian citizen, and his wife is applying for British nationality. Their two sons already have dual citizenship. In a statement, the 57-year-old Firth said he and his wife had never thought much about their different passports, "but now, with some of the uncertainty around, we thought it sensible that we should all get the same."

■ Gary Oldman has secretly tied the knot for the fifth time.

The Darkest Hour star has married writer and art curator Gisele Schmidt. Oldman who plays British World War II Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in his new movie wed Schmidt at the LA home of his manager and Darkest Hour producer Doug Urbanski just before they headed to the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.

● Colin Firth

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Photos from the past: Strath Creek

● Strath Creek Uniting Church. Circa 1985. Photo: John Collins

● Strath Creek Valley. Circa 1875-1938. Photo: John Henry Harvey

● Big Tree Camp, Strath Creek. 1907.

● C.R. Long (no relation) unveils the Hume and Hovell cairn, Strath Creek

● Unveiling of the Hume and Hovell cairn, Strath Creek. 1927.

● At Strath Creek. Circa 1875-1938. Photo: John Henry Harvey

● Kerrisdale Estate, Strath Creek. 1985. Photo: John Collins

● Kerrisdale Estate, Strath Creek. 1985. Photo: John Collins

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■ It is 40 years since the passing of Bing Crosby but he lives on through his films and recordings.

Most of us followed his life with great interest as he was once described as "the most popular man on the planet."

Bing portrayed the handsome, easy going wisecracking singer and actor and he was dearly loved.

Harry Lillis Crosby was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1903 and had six brothers and sisters.

When Harry was only three the family moved to moved to Spokane, Washington.

In 1910 he was given the nickname of ‘Bing’ by a young neighbour and it stuck throughout his life.

Bing attended Gonzaga University and I have seen letters he wrote back to the University after he became rich and famous - he never forgot his peers and was very respectful.

He joined a band and played drums. In 1925 Bing joined a singing group called The Rhythm Boys and he worked with Harry Barris and Al Rinker.

They sang with the famous Paul Whiteman Orchestra.

Bing married Dixie Lee in 1930 and they had four sons Gary, Phillip, Dennis and Lindsay.

Bing decided to go solo in 1931 and developed the ‘crooning style’ of singing and had hits with songs such as Just One More Chance, Out of Nowhere and A Million Dollar Baby.

Whatever Happened To ...

Bing Crosby

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM Bing was signed to Brunswick Records and was also singing on the CBS Radio network.

He became one of the most popular singers throughout the world and everybody wanted to sing like Bing.

His film career began with short features and by the late 1930s Bing Crosby was a major film star.

Some of his films in this period included Anything Goes, Sing You Sinners, We're Not Dressing, Pennies From Heaven and Rhythm on the Range.

In the film Holiday Inn he sang a new song

by Irving Berlin which became his biggest selling single.

Bing thought that White Christmas was just

another song but he was proven wrong when the public took it to their hearts and it has been reported that it has sold in excess of 50 million singles over the past 70 years. The figure is around 100 million if you count albums and compilations.

Bing won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1944 for his role as Father O'Malley in Going My Way. I loved the ‘Road films’ with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope which began with Road to Singapore in 1940 and ended with The Road to Hong Kong in 1962.

Dixie Lee died in 1952 and five years later Bing walked down the aisle with Kathryn Grant and they had three children from their happy marriage.

Bing Crosby never came to Australia and I cannot recall seeing a film or telemovie on his life. Over the years he did radio interviews with Norman Banks, Philip Brady and Bert Newton.

In his career Bing Crosby won many awards for his singing and acting. He made the transition into television in the early 1950s after almost 20 years in radio.

My favourite Bing Crosby film is High Soci-

ty where he teamed with Grace Kelly, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra.

There have been many books written on Bing Crosby and there is not enough space in this column to pay justice to his body of work.

Bing Crosby died suddenly whilst playing golf in Madrid on October 14, 1977. He collapsed from a massive heart attack at the age of 74. The Herald newspaper in Melbourne devoted its entire front page to the story and several pages within the paper. It was a great shock to the world.

I am a member of the Bing Crosby Society and we meet at the Collingwood Library, 11 Stanton St, Abbotsford. Old Crosby films are shown and a group of people who share a common interest in Bing Crosby meet for a great social evening. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 17 at 7pm - for details contac John Allan on 9755 3365. It will be a special meeting to mark Bing's 40th anniversary. Needless to say I am a huge fan of the work of Bing Crosby.

Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on radio Mike Till Midnight - Saturday at 8.10pm Remember When - Sunday at 9.10pm That's Entertainment - 96.5FM Sundays at 12 Noon 96.5FM is streaming on the internet.

To listen, go to www.innerfm.org.au and follow the prompts.

Frenzied havoc of God of Carnage ■ Redfox3 Theatre delivers all the frenzied havoc of Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play God of Carnage in a beautifully staged and thoroughly entertaining production.

The play opens on a discussion between two sets of parents forced to gather over an incident involving their children.

What starts as rigid civility and feigned respect quickly (and hilariously) sinks into unkindness, savagery and ugliness as they reveal what they truly think of one another and the situation at hand.

The four actors are well cast here and do not disappoint.

Though initially, emotions portrayed feel mismatched and a lightning-fast pace smothers words and extinguishes subtext, somehow the awkward tension is there.

Soon the actors find their rhythm and the entertainment explodes.

Rhiannon Leach as Annette and Tuilyn Shannon as Veronica are delightfully animated, particularly once they become unsettled.

Stephen Shinkfield is superbly frustrating as the ill-mannered, workaholic Alan and manages a subtlety of humour that catches by surprise.

Adrian Carr as Michael is outstanding. With the biggest character journey to make, Carr moves very successfully through starting nonchalant then going bananas.

Reza’s play is really a tour of many universal themes: parenthood; marriage; masculinity and femininity in the eyes of the other; alliances and interconnections; polite society and Western cultural ideals; humanitarian vs custodian; and more.

Each of these is hungrily explored in this production.

The set is full of striking animal images, statues, and prints, a firm nod to the chaotic safari tour the audience embark upon (in the guise of self-proclaimed humanitarian Veronica’s home décor, a woman who has “steeped” herself in Africa “for months!”).

Beautiful staging by director Justin Stephens captures the raw goodness of God of Carnage in a visually enticing way from start to finish.

I really look forward to Redfox3 Theatre’s next production also being

Theatre

the ground Down Under. October 18 - 22, 7pm start at The Butterfly Club.

Booking highly recommended: https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/ don-t-trust-me-i-m-a-dentist - Cheryl Threadgold

Stigma

With Cheryl Threadgold directed by Stephens.

- Review by Deborah Marinaro

Dont’ Trust Me, I’m A Dentist ■ Actor-writer duo Amir Rahimzadeh and Sharon Heywood present Don’t Trust Me, I’m A Dentist from October 18 -22 at the Butterfly Club.

This one-act comedy is based on true life experiences of Amir Rahimzadeh, who in his former life was a dentist, and is co-written and produced by Sharon Heywood.

They will take audiences on a journey as Dr Ronnie Ramirez and his long suffering nurse Yvette, also recreating more patients and characters.

The narrative explores how the once hungry professional becomes disillusioned and unstable during his career as he battles his demons and endures much more than he can take.

Amir and Sharon are new to Australia after moving from the UK last November. They have a varied catalogue of individual credits but together they now go under the umbrella of Shamiron Productions.

They previously tickled British audiences with their humour in Perverted Moves in The Dark and the sequel The Second Coming multimedia sketch shows in 2014 and 2016.

As well as producing online comedy shorts, they have penned and are pitching two sitcoms along with getting their TV sketch show concept off

■ A premiere season of a telling work by writer/director/choreographer Darren Vizer brought us face to face with the Stigma confronting those who are living with HIV. Vizer dedicated Stigma to Ita Buttrose, who was an early pioneer against HIV and AIDS related discrimination.

Many in the community show a complete lack of understanding when confronting those affected, meeting them with prejudice, negative attitude and abuse. Ita Buttrose in a video clip introduction called upon us all to be Stigma Warriors, to work towards eradicating stigma and discrimination.

Director Darren Vizer spent considerable time working with those living with the stigma and created a piece of theatre, while confronting to the uneducated, certainly informative and revealing.

Something that the community needed in the understanding of the lives of those living in relationships, workplace discrimination and the very real and powerful consequence they endured with sexual liaisons.

With dialogue, dance, and physical encounters to an intense music score we travelled through a number of real life experiences, heterosexual and gay encounters, sensitively and emotionally portrayed by a team of three, Dan Last, Laura Jane Turner and Alex Duncan.

Among the experiences, a wife finding out her husband was HIV positive and that he had been with many men. A sexual encounter between two males finding out that the partner was HIV positive. Two nude males engaging in unsafe sex much to the alarm of the heterosexual participant, while the performance ended with two nude males in an erogenous dance that left us thinking how we need to accept and be mindful in eradicating the stigma and discrimination of those living with HIV. Impressive was the music score created by Neddwellyn Jones, known for his “music for slow-dancing insomniacs from outer space”.

Whilst somewhat disturbing in the truth, well devised, exceptional acting and dance, and a lesson to all.

- Review by Graeme McCoubrie

OK. With John O’Keefe Switching microphones ■ Often controversial feature writer at the Herald Sun, Rita Pinahi, has swapped microphones from Tom Elliot at 3AW, to join Eddie McGuire and crew at Triple M’s Hot Breakfast.

There are sure to be lots of sparks flying in her new jig

Next series on the way ■ The Ten Network is still reeling from its financial plight but haw given the go ahead to further series of Shark Tank.

At Seven there’s another series of Little Big Shots at the audition stage.

Little Big Shots has been a runaway ratings winner and father-of-four Shane Jacobson is an exceptional talent.

Whilst on the subject of exceptionally talented children, ABC-TV is in production with a prime time series featuring six amazing Aussie pre-teens including an eight-year-old pianist studying in New York, and a 10-year-old abstract painter.

The series traces their talents and examines family life. The series is due for release 201 , so watch out for Making Child Prodigies.

Bon Scott’s secret

■ Unbeknown to most, iconic ACDC rocker Bon Scott fathered a son way back when.

The son was adopted and lived for 18 years in Geelong and known as Dave Stephens.

Now a talented muso Dave will play alongside some famous name rockers in a tour appropriately called Born but not forgotten and due to appear in headline gigs in Melbourne during November.

Footy songs on high rotation

■ Footy songs reach their peak come Grand Final, and rightly so. Mike Brady is our favourite with his unforgettable Up there Cazaly.

Another that had its annual airing is That’s the Thing about Football sung byAlice James.

The catchy sing-a-long was recorded at home by her dad, Darren James, the long time on air stalwart of 3AW. At the time of recording Alice was a pre-teen youngster and did not miss as a beat as she belted out the words.

It’s sure to be heard on 3AW pre- Grand Final 2018 too. The talented James family.

Sophie fights Herald Sun

■ Celeb Sophie Monk, via her management, is having a blue with none other than the Herald Sun. The paper is currently using an image of Sophie wearing Sennheiser earphones, promoting the Hun’s subscription drive.

Sophie says no permission was requested for use of the image, and no talent fee paid.

The Herald Sun replied saying “no endorsement was implied”. The whole ac most likely will end up in an out-of court settlement.

- John O’Keefe

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate.

And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time.

Jim and me got uneasy. We didn’t like the look of it. We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. We turned it over and over, and at last we made up our minds they was going to break into somebody’s house or store, or was going into the counterfeit-money business, or something. So then we was pretty scared, and made up an agreement that we wouldn’t have nothing in the world to do with such actions, and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake and clear out and leave them behind. Well, early one morning we hid the raft in a good, safe place about two mile below a little bit of a shabby village named Pikesville, and the king he went ashore and told us all to stay hid whilst he went up to town and smelt around to see if anybody had got any wind of the Royal Nonesuch there yet. (“House to rob, you MEAN,” says I to myself; “and when you get through robbing it you’ll come back here and wonder what has become of me and Jim and the raft — and you’ll have to take it out in wondering.”) And he said if he warn’t back by midday the duke and me would know it was all right, and we was to come along.

So we stayed where we was. The duke he fretted and sweated around, and was in a mighty sour way. He scolded us for everything, and we couldn’t seem to do nothing right; he found fault with every little thing. Something was a-brewing, sure. I was good and glad when midday come and no king; we could have a change, anyway — and maybe a chance for THE chance on top of it. So me and the duke went up to the village, and hunted around there for the king, and by and by we found him in the back room of a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight he couldn’t walk, and couldn’t do nothing to them.

The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back, and the minute they was fairly at it I lit out and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer, for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again. I got down there all out of breath but loaded up with joy, and sung out: “Set her loose, Jim! we’re all right now!”

But there warn’t no answer, and nobody come out of the wigwam. Jim was gone! I set up a shout — and then another — and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn’t no use — old Jim was gone. Then I set down and cried; I couldn’t help it. But I couldn’t set still long.

Pretty soon I went out on the road, trying to think what I better do, and I run across a boy walking, and asked him if he’d seen a strange nigger dressed so and so, and he says: “Yes.” “Whereabouts?” says I. “Down to Silas Phelps’ place, two mile below here. He’s a runaway nigger, and they’ve got him. Was you looking for him?”

“You bet I ain’t! I run across him in the woods about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he’d cut my livers out — and told me to lay down and stay where I was; and I done it. Been there ever since; afeard to come out.”

“Well,” he says, “you needn’t be afeard no more, becuz they’ve got him. He run off f’m down South, som’ers.”

“It’s a good job they got him.”

“Well, I RECKON! There’s two hunderd dollars reward on him. It’s like picking up money out’n the road.”

“Yes, it is — and I could a had it if I’d been big enough; I see him FIRST. Who nailed him?”

“It was an old fellow — a stranger — and he sold out his chance in him for forty dollars, becuz he’s got to go up the river and can’t wait. Think o’ that, now! You bet I’D wait, if it was seven year.”C

down and stay where I was; and I done it. Been there ever since; afeard to come out.”

“Well,” he says, “you needn’t be afeard no more, becuz they’ve got him. He run off f’m down South, som’ers.”

“It’s a good job they got him.”

“Well, I RECKON! There’s two hunderd dollars reward on him. It’s like picking up money out’n the road.”

“Yes, it is — and I could a had it if I’d been big enough; I see him FIRST. Who nailed him?”

“It was an old fellow — a stranger — and he sold out his chance in him for forty dollars, becuz he’s got to go up the river and can’t wait. Think o’ that, now! You bet I’D wait, if it was seven year.”

“That’s me, every time,” says I. “But maybe his chance ain’t worth no more than that, if he’ll sell it so cheap. Maybe there’s something ain’t straight about it.”

“But it IS, though — straight as a string. I see the handbill myself. It tells all about him, to a dot — paints him like a picture, and tells the plantation he’s frum, below NewrLEANS. No-sirree-BOB, they ain’t no trouble ’bout THAT speculation, you bet you. Say, gimme a chaw tobacker, won’t ye?”

I didn’t have none, so he left. I went to the raft, and set down in the wigwam to think. But I couldn’t come to nothing. I thought till I wore my head sore, but I couldn’t see no way out of the trouble. After all this long journey, and after all we’d done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.

Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d GOT to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of ME! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from Mark Twain that town again I’d be ready to get down and So at last they got just about dead broke, and ing, sure. I was good and glad when midday lick his boots for shame. That’s just the way: a laid around the raft as she floated along, think- come and no king; we could have a change, person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t ing and thinking, and never saying nothing, by anyway — and maybe a chance for THE chance want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and on top of it. So me and the duke went up to the long as he can hide, it ain’t no disgrace. That desperate. village, and hunted around there for the king, was my fix exactly. The more I studied about And at last they took a change and begun to lay and by and by we found him in the back room of this the more my conscience went to grinding their heads together in the wigwam and talk low a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loaf- me, and the more wicked and low-down and and confidential two or three hours at a time. ers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me Jim and me got uneasy. We didn’t like the look and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of of it. We judged they was studying up some he couldn’t walk, and couldn’t do nothing to them. Providence slapping me in the face and letting kind of worse deviltry than ever. We turned it The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, me know my wickedness was being watched over and over, and at last we made up our minds and the king begun to sass back, and the minute all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I they was going to break into somebody’s house they was fairly at it I lit out and shook the reefs was stealing a poor old woman’s nigger that or store, or was going into the counterfeit-money out of my hind legs, and spun down the river hadn’t ever done me no harm, and now was business, or something. So then we was pretty road like a deer, for I see our chance; and I showing me there’s One that’s always on the scared, and made up an agreement that we made up my mind that it would be a long day lookout, and ain’t a-going to allow no such miswouldn’t have nothing in the world to do with before they ever see me and Jim again. I got erable doings to go only just so fur and no fursuch actions, and if we ever got the least show down there all out of breath but loaded up with ther, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared. we would give them the cold shake and clear joy, and sung out: Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up out and leave them behind. Well, early one “Set her loose, Jim! we’re all right now!” somehow for myself by saying I was brung up morning we hid the raft in a good, safe place But there warn’t no answer, and nobody come wicked, and so I warn’t so much to blame; but about two mile below a little bit of a shabby out of the wigwam. Jim was gone! I set up a something inside of me kept saying, “There was village named Pikesville, and the king he went shout — and then another — and then another the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if ashore and told us all to stay hid whilst he went one; and run this way and that in the woods, you’d a done it they’d a learnt you there that up to town and smelt around to see if anybody whooping and screeching; but it warn’t no use people that acts as I’d been acting about that had got any wind of the Royal Nonesuch there — old Jim was gone. Then I set down and cried; nigger goes to everlasting fire.” yet. (“House to rob, you MEAN,” says I to I couldn’t help it. But I couldn’t set still long. It made me shiver. And I about made up my myself; “and when you get through robbing it Pretty soon I went out on the road, trying to think mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit you’ll come back here and wonder what has what I better do, and I run across a boy walking, being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I become of me and Jim and the raft — and you’ll and asked him if he’d seen a strange nigger kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. have to take it out in wondering.”) And he said dressed so and so, and he says: Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and if he warn’t back by midday the duke and me “Yes.” hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed would know it was all right, and we was to come “Whereabouts?” says I. very well why they wouldn’t come. It was bealong.

“Down to Silas Phelps’ place, two mile below cause my heart warn’t right; it was because I So we stayed where we was. The duke he fret- here. He’s a runaway nigger, and they’ve got warn’t square; it was because I was playing ted and sweated around, and was in a mighty him. Was you looking for him?” double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away sour way. He scolded us for everything, and we “You bet I ain’t! I run across him in the woods inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one couldn’t seem to do nothing right; he found fault about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I with every little thing. Something was a-brew- he’d cut my livers out — and told me to lay Continued on Page 20

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From Page 19 would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger’s owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie — I found that out.

So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the letter — and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.

HUCK FINN. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking — thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, ’stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: very well why they wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t right; it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger’s owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie — I found that out.

So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn’t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I’ll go and write the letter — and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.

HUCK FINN. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking — thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, ’stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world,

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It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll GO to hell”— and tore it up.

It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn’t.

And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.

Then I set to thinking over how to get at it, and turned over some considerable many ways in my mind; and at last fixed up a plan that suited me. So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, and then turned in. I slept the night through, and got up before it was light, and had my breakfast, and put on my store clothes, and tied up some others and one thing or another in a bundle, and took the canoe and cleared for shore. I landed below where I judged was Phelps’s place, and hid my bundle in the woods, and then filled up the canoe with water, and loaded rocks into her and sunk her where I could find her again when I wanted her, about a quarter of a mile below a little steam sawmill that was on the bank.

Then I struck up the road, and when I passed the mill I see a sign on it, “Phelps’s Sawmill,” and when I come to the farm-houses, two or three hundred yards further along, I kept my eyes peeled, but didn’t see nobody around, though it was good daylight now. But I didn’t mind, because I didn’t want to see nobody just yet — I only wanted to get the lay of the land.

According to my plan, I was going to turn up there from the village, not from below. So I just took a look, and shoved along, straight for town.

Well, the very first man I see when I got there was the duke. He was sticking up a bill for the Royal Nonesuch — three-night performance — like that other time. They had the cheek, them frauds! I was right on him before I could shirk.

He looked astonished, and says: “Hel-LO! Where’d YOU come from?” Then he says, kind of glad and eager, “Where’s the raft? — got her in a good place?”

I says: “Why, that’s just what I was going to ask your grace.”

Then he didn’t look so joyful, and says: “What was your idea for asking ME?” he says.

“Well,” I says, “when I see the king in that doggery yesterday I says to myself, we can’t get him home for hours, till he’s soberer; so I went a-loafing around town to put in the time and wait. A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, and the man left me a-holt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after him. We didn’t have no dog, and so we had to chase him all over the country till we tired him out. We never got him till dark; then we fetched him over, and I started down for the raft. When I got there and see it was gone, I says to myself, ’They’ve got into trouble and had to leave; and they’ve took my nigger, which is the only nigger I’ve got in the world, and now I’m in a strange country, and ain’t got no property no more, nor nothing, and no way to make my living;’ so I set down and cried. I slept in the woods all night. But what DID become of the raft, then? — and Jim — poor Jim!” “Blamed if I know — that is, what’s become of the raft. That old fool had made a trade and got forty dollars, and when we found him in the doggery the loafers had matched half-dollars with him and got every cent but what he’d spent for whisky; and when I got him home late last night and found the raft gone, we said, ’That little rascal has stole our raft and shook us, and run off down the river.’”

“I wouldn’t shake my NIGGER, would I? — the only nigger I had in the world, and the only property.”

“We never thought of that. Fact is, I reckon we’d come to consider him OUR nigger; yes, we did

consider him so — goodness knows we had trouble enough for him. So when we see the raft was gone and we flat broke, there warn’t anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake. And I’ve pegged along ever since, dry as a powder-horn. Where’s that ten cents?

Give it here.”

I had considerable money, so I give him ten cents, but begged him to spend it for something to eat, and give me some, because it was all the money I had, and I hadn’t had nothing to eat since yesterday. He never said nothing. The next minute he whirls on me and says: “Do you reckon that nigger would blow on us?

We’d skin him if he done that!”

“How can he blow? Hain’t he run off?”

“No! That old fool sold him, and never divided with me, and the money’s gone.”

“SOLD him?” I says, and begun to cry; “why, he was MY nigger, and that was my money.

Where is he? — I want my nigger.”

“Well, you can’t GET your nigger, that’s all — so dry up your blubbering. Looky here — do you think YOU’D venture to blow on us? Blamed if I think I’d trust you. Why, if you WAS to blow on us —” He stopped, but I never see the duke look so ugly out of his eyes before. I went on a-whimpering, and says: “I don’t want to blow on nobody; and I ain’t got no time to blow, nohow. I got to turn out and find my nigger.”

He looked kinder bothered, and stood there with his bills fluttering on his arm, thinking, and wrinkling up his forehead. At last he says: “I’ll tell you something. We got to be here three days. If you’ll promise you won’t blow, and won’t let the nigger blow, I’ll tell you where to find him.”

So I promised, and he says: “A farmer by the name of Silas Ph —” and then he stopped. You see, he started to tell me the truth; but when he stopped that way, and begun to study and think again, I reckoned he was changing his mind. And so he was. He wouldn’t trust me; he wanted to make sure of having me out of the way the whole three days. So pretty soon he says: “The man that bought him is named Abram Foster — Abram G. Foster — and he lives forty mile back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette.”

“All right,” I says, “I can walk it in three days.

And I’ll start this very afternoon.”

“No you wont, you’ll start NOW; and don’t you lose any time about it, neither, nor do any gabbling by the way. Just keep a tight tongue in your head and move right along, and then you won’t get into trouble with US, d’ye hear?”

That was the order I wanted, and that was the one I played for. I wanted to be left free to work my plans.

“So clear out,” he says; “and you can tell Mr. Foster whatever you want to. Maybe you can get him to believe that Jim IS your nigger — some idiots don’t require documents — leastways I’ve heard there’s such down South here. And when you tell him the handbill and the reward’s bogus, maybe he’ll believe you when you explain to him what the idea was for getting ’em out. Go ’long now, and tell him anything you want to; but mind you don’t work your jaw any BETWEEN here and there.”

So I left, and struck for the back country. I didn’t look around, but I kinder felt like he was watching me. But I knowed I could tire him out at that.

I went straight out in the country as much as a mile before I stopped; then I doubled back through the woods towards Phelps’. I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim’s mouth till these fellows could get away. I didn’t want no trouble with their kind. I’d seen all I wanted to of them, and wanted to get entirely shut of them.

Chapter XXXII. WHEN I got there it was all still and Sundaylike, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody’s dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it’s spirits whispering — spirits that’s been dead ever so many years — and you always think they’re talking about YOU. As a general thing it makes a body wish HE was dead, too, and done with it all.

Phelps’ was one of these little one-horse cotton plantations, and they all look alike. A rail fence

round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grasspatches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks — hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke-house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t’other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash-hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a garden and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.

I went around and clumb over the back stile by the ash-hopper, and started for the kitchen. When I got a little ways I heard the dim hum of a spinning-wheel wailing along up and sinking along down again; and then I knowed for certain I wished I was dead — for that IS the lonesomest sound in the whole world.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I’d noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

When I got half-way, first one hound and then another got up and went for me, and of course I stopped and faced them, and kept still. And such another powwow as they made! In a quarter of a minute I was a kind of a hub of a wheel, as you may say — spokes made out of dogs — circle of fifteen of them packed together around me, with their necks and noses stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them sailing over fences and around corners from everywheres.

A nigger woman come tearing out of the kitchen with a rolling-pin in her hand, singing out, “Begone YOU Tige! you Spot! begone sah!” and she fetched first one and then another of them a clip and sent them howling, and then the rest followed; and the next second half of them come back, wagging their tails around me, and making friends with me. There ain’t no harm in a hound, nohow.

And behind the woman comes a little nigger girl and two little nigger boys without anything on but tow-linen shirts, and they hung on to their mother’s gown, and peeped out from behind her at me, bashful, the way they always do. And here comes the white woman running from the house, about forty-five or fifty year old, bareheaded, and her spinning-stick in her hand; and behind her comes her little white children, acting the same way the little niggers was going.

She was smiling all over so she could hardly stand — and says: “It’s YOU, at last! — AIN’T it?”

I out with a “Yes’m” before I thought.

She grabbed me and hugged me tight; and then gripped me by both hands and shook and shook; and the tears come in her eyes, and run down over; and she couldn’t seem to hug and shake enough, and kept saying, “You don’t look as much like your mother as I reckoned you would; but law sakes, I don’t care for that, I’m so glad to see you! Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up! Children, it’s your cousin Tom! — tell him howdy.”

But they ducked their heads, and put their fingers in their mouths, and hid behind her. So she run on: “Lize, hurry up and get him a hot breakfast right away — or did you get your breakfast on the boat?”

I said I had got it on the boat. So then she started for the house, leading me by the hand, and the children tagging after. When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me, holding both of my hands, and says: “Now I can have a GOOD look at you; and, laws-a-me, I’ve been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it’s come at last! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What kep’ you? — boat get aground?”

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On target for major races Coming up

■ The Tabcoro Park Melton action will be electric in the next couple of weeks, culminating with the running of the $200,000 Victoria Cup on Saturday October 14.

Meetings for the week : Wednesday Terang, Thursday - Echuca, Friday - Melton, Saturday - Ballarat, Sunday - Cranbourne, Monday - Maryborough, Tuesday - Swan Hill.

Horses to follow

■ Santanna Breeze, Sketchman, Shesasundon, Our Sir Oliver, Sammy Strikes, Lanista, Scout Hall Road, Im The Boss.

Three wins

■ Chris Alford has another field day at Hamilton , winning three, all for Emma Stewart - those to score were Rocknroll Ronnie, Nitro Nicky and Lady Machsheen.

Successful night

■ Avenel duo Davis and Josh Aiken enjoyed a successful night at Bendigo on Wednesday with a stable double - 4Y0 Eilean DononKyvalley Bling mare Hotjane Bling in the Bendigo Bank Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 1650 metres and 5Y0 Rocknroll Hanover-Electrofying Franco gelding Hot To Rock the Northern Rivers Equine Pace for C3 & C4 class over the same distance.

Hot jane Bling led throughout from gate five to easily account for Aussie Beach Blond (one/one) by 15.4 metres in a rate of 2-00.1, with Shesasunon 1.1 metres back in third place after trailing the winner.

Hot To Rock (gate four) was caught parked in the early stages, before taking a trail on the well supported Modern Maestro. Easing the wide on the final bend, Hot To Rock was too strong over the concluding stages for Modern Maestro, scoring by 1.7 metres in a slick 155.3. Roughie Realy Under Fire (three back the markers) was third 4.3 metres away.

Slugging finish

■ Strathfieldsaye trainer Glenn Douglas combined with Kilmore's Monique Burnett to land the Hygain Pace for C1 & C2 class over 2150 metres with ex-Kiwi 5Y0 Art OfficialGammarads gelding Flight Officer in a mile rate of 1-59.6. Electing to race in the open from gate five outside the favourite Rockabella Starz which flew the gate from outside the front line, Flight Officer in a slugging finish prevailed by a head in a thrilling finish. Captain Snoozzze (one/two) was third 1.5 metres back.

Fourth victory

■ Melton mentor Lance Justice's 7Y0 Majestic Son-Aceofdiamonds gelding My Jackofdiamonds chalked up his 4th victory in 43 outings (two in Oz), when greeting the judge in the Steel Deals Bendigo Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class over 2150 metres, leading all of the way from barrier two. Jeter (one/ two - three wide last lap) was second, going down by a head, with Tiroroa Tom third after following the runner up throughout. The mile rate 2-03.9.

Father-and-son

■ Bunbartha father and son - John and Matt Newberry were successful with handy 6Y0 Always A Virgin-Sweet Maddy Lombo gelding Lombo Idle Beliefwho chalked up his 7th success in 45 outings.

■ Victoria Cup/Inter Dominion aspirant San Carlo is on target for a crack at these major races following a brilliant victory in the Christmas Parties @ Tabcorp Park Pace for M1 & M2 class over 2240 metres at Melton last Thursday.

Trained at Kialla by Steve O'Donoghue and driven by stable reinswoman Bec Bartley, San Carlo starting from the extreme draw was quickly sent forward to park outside the well fancied ex-Kiwi Moonrock (gate three) shortly after the start.

Despite doing all of the work in the race, San Carlo was equal to the task, registering a decisive 1.7 metre margin in a rate of 1-54.6 (last half 56 - quarter 28.4) over the pacemaker, with Riverboat Jasper 1.9 metres away in third place after having the drop on the front runners.

Champion trail ■ The two feature races on the Tabcorp Park Melton program were named after former champions - the $$20,000 Preux Chevalier Free For All for Pacers and the $20,000 Aldebaran Park True Roman Trotters Free ForAll, both over the 2240 metre trip.

Outstanding 7Y0 Art Major-Aratusa Lass gelding Major Crocker resumed with a strong victory in a action packed Preux Chevalier for Bolinda trainer Vince Vallelonga and regular reinsman Greg Sugars.

First up since July, Major Crocker starting from the extreme draw was sent forward early in the piece to join the leader Young Modern which had taken over from Gotta Go Henry, before taking a one/one trail on Flaming Flutter.

Easing three wide on the final bend, Major Crocker was much too classy over the concluding stages for Messini which finished on from mid-field in a rate of 1-54.8. Young Modern showed vast improvement to be third. The margins 2.4 by 1.6 metres.

In-form 8Y0 Pegasus Spur-Sundonna mare Maori Time chalked up her 22nd victory when spearing across the face of the field from outside the front line to lead throughout in the Trotters FFA for trainer Brent Lilley and reinsman Gavin Lang, scoring by an easy 3.7 metres in advance of stablemate Sun Of Anarcky which trailed and and Sundons Courage (one/one). The mile rate 2-00.7.

Amazing run ■ Youthful Zac Phillips has had an amazing run over the past few months and showed his style when successful aboard the Danny and Gill Norris (Little River) trained 8Y0 Armbro Invasion-Salute Two Alabama gelding Alabamas Invasion in the Flying Horse Bistro Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2200 metres at Bray Raceway Ballarat on Tuesday September 26.

Given an easy time three back along the markers from gate five after Menames Daboss crossed Rumspringer at the bell, Alabamas Invasion gained a freak inside passage halfway up the running as the leader shifted ground, charging home to record a 5.5 metre margin in a mile rate of 2-03.2. Rumspringer was 2 metres away in third place after easing three wide on turning.

Polished exhibition

■ Bungaree "young gun" James Herbertson gave a polished exhibition aboard 5Y0 Tennotrump-Wayoutback gelding Backten Onhim to land the Motor City Sounds 9th December Book Now Trotters Mobile for T0 & T1 class over 2200 metres at Ballarat.

Beginning swiftly from gate four, Backten Onhim trained at Kingston by Steve Martin crossed to lead as the start was effected.

Not waiting in the approach to the final bend, Backten Onhim was given full rein and charged away with the race in his keeping, scoring by 15.6 metres from Kit Keller (three wide home turn).Uncle Al was a head away in third place after racing exposed from the bell.

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Came from the tail ■ On a night when the trotters took pride of place at Ballarat, Bannockburn's Geoff Webster snared the Own The Moment Trotters Handicap for T2 or better class over 2200 metres with 8Y0 Armbro Variable-Anders Belle mare Dora Pepperell, returning a rate of 2-04.5.

Driven by the stable's Emmett Brosnan, Dora Pepperell after beginning safely from 10 metres possied on the back of the leader Shiftywall, before being relegated to three back the markers as the hot favourite My Tribeca coming from 40 metres circled the field to lead within a lap.

Exticated into the clear in the last lap, Dora Pepperell had luck go her way approaching the home turn when My Tribeca went off stride, allowing her to gain the day by a comfortable 12.8 metres over Shiftywall which stuck to his guns, with Argyle Melody coming from the tail of the field to finish third 3 metres away.

Sensational start ■ Champion reinsman Chris Alford who has had a sensational start to the season, chalked up four winners for the evening at Ballarat including three for the dominant Emma Stewart/ Clayton Tonkin barn - Metro Star, Masterkova and Striking Beauty, the other being Sports Bounty for veteran Sutton Grange based Graeme Dalton.

Racing at Horsham ■ Western District racing was held at Hamilton on Monday and Apollo Bay trained 6Y0 Jet Laag-Whatanerror gelding Whatajetstar was successful in the Matthews Petroleum Pace for C1 class over 1660 metres.

Driven by Jason Camilleri, Whatajetstar raced mid-field in the moving line from gate four and finished best to blouse the pacemaker Put MBack by a head in 1-58.2, with Johnny Redcoat (one/one) 10 metres away in third place.

Defied challengers ■ Anakie trainer Tim Bolitho's Big Jim-Whata Impact 4Y0 mare Miss Dangerfield led throughout to land the Taylor Motors Pace for C0 class over 2160 metres.

Given an easy time from the pole by Greg Sugars, Miss Dangerfield defied all challengers, scoring by 2.3 metres over a game Sketchman which shadowed her all of the way in a rate of 2-01.3. Exciteusrubycee (one/three) was third was third 9.7 metres back.

Combined with son ■ Woolsthorpe trainer Ian Stanley combined with son Michael to capture the South West Conveancing Pace for C1 class over 2160 metres with 5Y0 Rock N Roll Hanover-Victoria Street mare Rockonby Tigerpie. Starting from gate two on the second line, Rockonby Tigerpie ran home off a three wide trail on the back of the favourite A Victor, prevailing by a half head in 1-56.9. Goodtime Bobby was third after following the pair. The mile rate 1-56.9.

Baker’s Delight 11-card race ■ Shepparton was the venue for Friday racing where a massive eleven race card was held. Honour's for the night going to local Kialla duo Laura Crossland and David Moran who finished the night with a stable treble.

Former Kiwi 5Y0 gelding Scotlynn Jack (Courage Under Fire-Scotlynn Bye) led throughout with Moran in the sulky to land the Guardline Security Services Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2190 metres, easily accounting for A Special Dream which trailed by 1.9 metres in a rate of 1-58.2. Scout Hall Road was third 3.8 metres away after following the pair to give Shepparton the trifecta.

Laura snared the Shepparton BMW Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class over 2190 metres with in-form 5Y0 Skyvalley-Mystic Hush mare Sky Majesty in 2-04.4. Coming from 20 metres, Sky Majesty stepped cleanly, gradually making ground to assume control within a lap and from there on it was a procession, running out a 6 metre victor over the ever reliable pair of Black Valley and ScotchingAlong.

Laura made it a driving double by taking the 2190 metre TR0-TR1 class Hunter Home Timber & Hardware Trotters Mobile with Muscle Mass-Ashley Sunset gelding The Male Model. Retaining the front running from the pole, The Male Model registered a 1.4 metre margin in advance of Endsin A Party which trailed and Antiope in a rate of 2-04.9.

Travel Extra Travels to Cuba

■ Bizarre as it sounds, there are people – thousands of people every year – go to Cuba not for its beauty, culture, lifestyle and hospitality, but to sit at outdoor cafés and watch its cars roll by.

And for the really keen, to ask the locals if they can look under bonnets, and into the interior of those cars.And even more hopefully, to go for a ride.

Because going to Cuba is somewhat of a time-warp – look at the cars on its roads and you’d think you were back in the 1940s and ’50s, thanks to the US slapping a trade ban on the country in 1962 which included the export of American-made cars and parts to the island nation.

And Cuba’s then-dictator, Fidel Castro compounded the situation by banning Cubans from using circuitous routes to buy new cars from America, so that to this day despite the bans being lifted in 2013, the roads are a virtual rolling museum… crammed with Oldsmobiles, Chevrolets, Buicks, Fords, Chryslers, Plymouths and others badges from the 1950s and before.

And because of a ban on the importation of spare parts as well until 2013, the Cubans became experts in creating their own spares, and adapting parts from one brand to fit another, so that you might today jump into a 1950s Chevrolet taxi, and find that it’s in fact got a Peugeot motor that’s somehow been re-modelled and fitted into the Chevvy.

As one American motoring writer wrote “they’re more than just a car, they’re the last vestige of the spirit of survival… a somewhat country art form.

“A car might have a near-70 year old Cadillac body,” he said. “But because it is running with another make’s 50 year old engine, maybe another’s 60 year old transmission, and its interior is a mish-mash salvaged from a range of badges, these cars literally have morphed into Cuba’s own species.”

And something the ingenious cashstrapped Cubans can’t afford to replace.

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BAMBERT’S BOOK OF LOST STORIES ● We are saddened to hear of the passing of Chris de Fraga, 3AW motor correspondent

Don’t Trust Me, I’m A Dentist ■ Actor-writer duo Amir Rahimzadeh and Sharon Heywood present Don’t Trust me, I’m a Dentist from October 18 – 22 at the Butterfly Club.

This one act comedy is based on true life experiences of Amir Rahimzadeh, who in his former life was a dentist, and is co-written and produced by Sharon Heywood.

They will take audiences on a journey as Dr Ronnie Ramirez and his long suffering nurse Yvette, also recreating more patients and characters.

The narrative explores how the once hungry professional becomes disillusioned and unstable during his career as he battles his demons and endures much more than he can take.

Amir and Sharon are new to Australia after moving from the UK last November.

They have a varied catalogue of individual credits but together they now go under the umbrella of Shamiron Productions.

They previously tickled British audiences with their humour in Perverted Moves in The Dark and the sequel The Second Coming multimedia sketch shows in 2014 and 2016.

As well as producing online comedy shorts, they have penned and are pitching two sitcoms along with getting their TV sketch show concept off the ground Down Under.

Dates: October 18 - 22 October Times: 7pm start at The Butterfly Club.

Booking highly recommended: Web: https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/don-t-trust-mei-m-a-dentist - Cheryl Threadgold

● Dirty Three drummer Jim White is performing in More Up A Tree.

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● Igor Sas, Amanda McGregor, Jo Morris, Nick Maclaine and Tim Watts in Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories, at Arts Centre Melbourne.

■ Reinhardt Jung’s novel will be brought to life in Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories being presented at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio, October 27 and 28..

Writer Dan Giovannoni and co-adapter and director Luke Kerridge have lifted the story off the page, transforming the tale into an enchanting Helpmann award-winning work.

■ There is a delightful physicality to The Yonder and, given In this production, Barking Gecko Theatre Company prethe close proximity of the audience and the actors in The sents the story of Bambert - an impossibly small man with an Loft at the Lithuanian Club, one cannot help but notice enormous love for writing. every gesture and wink.

Tucked away in his quiet attic, his only companions are the Indeed, the audience is part of the show, invited as they characters he has created in his stories. are to become passengers on the last space ship leaving One day, Bambert decides to set his stories free, to send Earth. them out into the world on little balloons, in the hope that they Tension is high amongst the crew. The commander will find a home.

(Elizabeth Davie) and her less than competent crew (Ezel The stories contain instructions: whoever finds them is to Doruk, Shannan Lim) journey into the unknown encounreturn them to Bambert with a stamp from wherever they landed, so he knows where his stories have gone. tering Space Squid which, ultimately, raises questions about But as each day passes, and no stories return, Bambert’s how one handles illegal aliens. hope begins to fade. Will his stories ever find a home?

This dig at Australia’s current lack of ethics is well Featuring a crafted two-tier set by Jonathon Oxlade’s and made but the anarchic fun this trio has in what amounts to a puppetry. low budget theatrical romp is the glue that binds the show.

“Bambert’s belief in the power of his stories is a beautiful The creation of Space Squid, including conception and reminder of the potential that stories hold for all of us, to help us birth, is hilarious; the simple device of a hand gloved in a make sense of the world and to set our imaginations free. sock all that is required to simulate their presence.

“He is a magical example of how even the smallest of people The transitions between characters and moments are can do big things,’’ says adapter and director Luke Kerridge. awkward at times and sound and lighting cues could be Before and after the show children are given the opportunity to colour in and add their wishes to balloons, just like Bambert. tightened but anything too professional would detract from The wishes are then placed in a magic box that animates the instantaneous delight of creating theatre. their picture and projects in onto a screen for the world to see.

The imaginative treatment of issues and the simplicity Audiences will also have a chance to experience Arts Cenof improvised props shows just how accessible theatre can tre Melbourne’s digital storytelling installation, Stories in the be; how simple it can be to create, how much fun it can be Wall: Take Flight, featuring stories by primary students with to perform and how entertaining it can be to watch. music and sounds designed by secondary students.

A worthy inclusion amongst the multitude of works in Performance Dates: October 27 and 28 at 7.00pm and on the Melbourne Fringe season.

Saturday, October 28 at 2.00pm.

The Yonder was presented at the Lithuanian Club, Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio.

North Melbourne.

Recommended for ages 8+ Book: artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183 - Review by David McLean - Cheryl Threadgold

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One Act Plays ■ Peridot last weekend hosted 15 one-act plays presented by companies hailing from as far afield as Townsville, competing in the 2017 Monash One-Act Play Festival.

The festival culminated with an award presentation after the last session on Sunday afternoon.

In that session, four plays were showcased, two of which won awards.

The Best Youth Production went to Sydney’s The School at AIPA’s original production of Romeo To Go. This was an effervescent production of 20 young actors, whose average age is 13, and great fun.

Another original production, Home, by Natalie Burns, won the Adjudicator’s Award for its playwright and won a Best Actor Award for cast member, Brielle Shiels, playing Bailee.

This was a play that tackled a tough subject, foster care, from two perspectives, the fostered child and the relinquishing mother.

Two comedies rounded out the afternoon.

All His Christmases At Once is a farce in the best comic tradition with a ludicrous premise around a serious issue, donor fathers and their IVF children.

Throw in an ex-girlfriend, the new girlfriend and sleazy Uncle Phil and you have the makings of an eventful Christmas dinner.

Three Lovers is a play about a play about a play. An absurd circular comedy where the in-jokes kept coming. Director Leo (Gareth Hamm) has just two weeks to opening night of his new play. The actors played by John Reisinger, Krissi Creighton and Andrew Hood, however, have their own ideas and enthusiastically voice their advice to their director.

Great pacing and terrific comic timing ensured the afternoon finished where it started: on a high.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

Calendar Girls

■ When Annie (Abi Richardson) loses her partner John (John Voce) to leukaemia, her local Women’s Institute rallies around to raise funds to buy a new settee for the Skipton General Hospital Relatives’ Room, which is in dire need of a facelift.

What starts out as an innocent fundraiser for the local hospital in a small, Yorkshire village, soon grips the nation when the women decide that rather than the usual study of local churchyards, they will pose nude for the annual Women’s Institute calendar.

What follows is a very British, Vicar of Dibley-style comedy. So British, in fact, that Jerusalem is sung at least three times throughout the show.

Calendar Girls does seem a little dated and the jokes overly familiar mainly due to the success of the film it was based on and subsequent stage productions since.

Nevertheless, this Melbourne production of the hit British comedy is moving at times, has lots of laughs and a very good female ensemble cast.

The high point of the show is undoubtedly the photo shoot. Even though the audience knew what was coming, seeing Celia (Tottie Goldsmith) behind strategically placed iced buns, Ruth (Lulu McClatchy) and some cleverly placed jars of marmalade and Jessie’s (Francesca Waters) purposefully placed large balls of wool brought the house down.

There are some areas to be ironed out: a little faster pacing, a bit more rehearsal with which way the on-set door opens and perhaps, less heavy use of a smoke machine.

However, Calendar Girls is funny, heartfelt and feel good.

Performance Details: Until October 7 Venue: Athenaeum Theatre, Collins St, Melbourne Bookings: Ticketek.com.au - Review by Kathryn Keeble

LOTS for Seniors

● David Dodd and Alison Knight in front of a Wirraway plane designed at Sir Lawrence Wackett’s Fisherman’s Bend CAC factory prior to WWII. Photo: Paul Jeffrey ■ LOTS Theatre Incorporated presents site- help out with industrial percussion while hearspecific aviation-themed entertainment as part ing about the role of Fisherman’s Bend in deof the Seniors Festival on October 17 and 18 at fending Australia during World War II. Refreshments will be offered at interval, and 12.30pm at the Australian National Aviation dedicated museum restoration volunteers will Museum at Moorabbin Airport.

LOTS for Seniors features short plays to in- be on hand to talk to the audience.

Time will also be available for a quick look troduce patrons to some of Australia’s legendary aviation heroes, such as Sir Lawrence at the many Australian aviation displays in the Wackett of CAC fame, and Robin Miller (The museum.

Performance Dates: Tuesday, October 17 and Sugar Bird Lady), and tells of how the Royal Wednesday, October 18 at 12.30pm Flying Doctor Service came into being.

Venue:Australian National Aviation Museum, And there is mystery too … whatever did happen to a young pilot who flew out of Second Avenue, Moorabbin Airport.

Bookings are essential as seating is limited.

Moorabbin Airport and was never seen again?

More information and ticket bookings ($12 Producer Jim Williams and Artistic Director Maggie Morrison recognise that seniors enjoy or $10 groups of 6+): 8510 1903, 9580 2387 or 9584 5127. involvement with shows.

– Maggie Morrison Not only can the audience sing along to origiwith Cheryl Threadgold nal fun songs about aviation, but they can also

Death Match

More Up A Tree ■ The Substation and Melbourne Festival present More Up a Tree from October 12 – 14 at the Substation, Newport.

Featuring Dirty Three drummer Jim White and Claudia de Serpa Soares, housed within a giant mirrored glass box designed by American multi media artist Eve Sussman.

Together they create a show that explores the relationship between artist and audience as drums and dance meet to present a spectacular story about art, the making of it and the often invisible collaborations and tensions between performers and audience.

The audience serves as the fourth participant in this inspired collaboration, which was originally commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

As the show begins, the performers are within Sussman’s 7 x 4m box of 2-way mirrored Plexiglas.

The audience take on an ordained voyeurism as they gaze upon the performers who cannot see out.

The dancer and the drummer are performing alone, in public.

By doing away with narrative and melody, and making a constantly “in flux” relationship to the public, attention is focused on the agency of the drumming, dancing and the audience.

More Up A Tree reveals the meaningful nature of movement by removing tonality and concentrating action inside a box.

Performance details: October 12 and 13 at 8pm; October 14 at 4pm and 8pm.

Venue: The Substation, 1 Market St., Newport Tickets: $39 + booking fee Bookings: https://thesubstation.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Country Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Billy Ray at Palms ■ Hit maker Billy Ray Cyrus will perform at the Palms at Crown in March next year.

His massive chart success came with Achy Breaky Heart in 1992 .

The song was a triple platinum hit in Australia and a worldwide phenomenon that went on to become a line dance classic.

Aussie multi-award winner Travis Collins will be supporting Billy on his tour.Go

Steve’s 7th album ● Ursula Searle, Aleeah Gabriel, Stephen Amos and Earl Marrows in Death Match. Photo:David Sheehy ■ A drama is generally inTheir characters are numThe intent of the perfortended to portray the lives of bers on their athletic attire and, mance was ‘to explore the characters and tell a story in- as a company, they worked depths and lengths of human volving conflict and emotion. tightly in sync. competition’ but the suffering By so doing, concerns and The performance reached of the audience should be conissues are raised with which the its apotheosis with two mono- sidered as part of this notion of audience can identify. Death logues running simultaneously, human endurance.

Match, the theatrical creation with one being interrupted by The work was experimenof the Monash Centre for The- muted dialogue, while two vio- tal and the cast dedicated. By atre and Performance, focuses lins were playing and the im- bringing it into the public doon the social emphasis given age of someone eating an or- main and charging for tickets to winning. This compromises ange was projected on the back they leave themselves open to story, character and emotion. screen. a reviewer’s critique.

This theatrical composition We had reached the height Presumably, the feedback by director, Katrina Cornwell, of tedium where the mono- will be welcome as by being and writer, Morgan Rose, is a logues were not contributing to experimental the principles of collaboration with performers the issue or character devel- theatrical propriety are chalUrsula Searle, Rebecca opment leaving the audience lenged and all responses garCatalano, Aleeah Gabriel, wondering what the point was. nered will be part of the ferEarl Marrows, Elly D’Arcy, Because it’s theatrically ment they intended to foster.

Stephen Amos and Cody possible doesn’t mean it should Malthouse Theatre. Until Baldwin. be done.

October 7. - David McLean

■ Local singer-songwriter Steve Eales has released his seventh studio album Let's Love Not Fight.

As with previous efforts, Steve has played all instruments on the album along with cowriter and producer Reggie Bowman with Robbie Parolin contributing on drums.

Steve is currently touring the country promoting the album that is available on iTunes and also from his website www. steveeales.com

Mildura Festival ■ The 31st annual Mildura Country Music Festival is well underway concluding on Sunday (Oct. 8).

A highlight of the festival is the the Southern Stars Australian Independent Country Music Awards being announced.

- Rob Foenander ■ Veteran journalist Hugh Riminton has released a memoir titled Minefields.

■ Priscilla Moca has joined 3AW’s newsroom as a journalist

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: BLADE RUNNER - The Final Cut - 4K + Blu-Ray: Genre: Sci-Fi/Noir/Thriller.

Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy.

Year/s: 1982 (Original Theatrical Version) - 2007 (Final Cut Version).

Rating: M. Length: 117 Minutes.

Stars: ***** Verdict: In the futuristic year of 2019 in Los Angeles, ex-cop Rick Deckard, now a "Blade Runner," is assigned to terminate four "replicants," that look like real human beings, who committed a bloody mutiny on an Off World colony and have returned to Earth to find their creator, and during his investigation is introduced to a unique replicant, Rachel, by the creator, who evokes human emotion and makes him question his own identity and mortality in what's human and what's not human.

Visionary filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott's dark neo-noir dystopian "Kafkaesque" science fiction saga is a spellbinding and landmark tour de force of filmmaking on every level.

Based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick, with the exception of very few films, most notably Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), George Lucas' Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and Ridley Scott's own groundbreaking Alien (1979), has a motion picture so completely transcended cinema.

Harrison Ford as the embittered futuristic Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade inspired hard-boiled "Blade Runner" delivers one of the standout performances of his career, however, it is Rutger Hauer's career defining role as the tough brooding yet poetic replicant Roy Batty that punches a hole through the screen.

Like Robert Shaw's gripping story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in Steven Spielberg's JAWS, Rutger Hauer's "Tears in Rain" moment remains one of the most haunting and unforgettable monologues ever committed to celluloid.

Along with starting visual effects by Douglas Trumball (2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), breathtaking music score by legendary Oscar winning composer Vangelis, and eye-popping Cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth, they have all combined to create unequalled and unsurpassed multilayered and richly textured odyssey of man and machine.

Haunting, stimulating, atmospheric, poetic, gothic, ambiguous, gripping, thought provoking, poignant and hugely entertaining, this all new eye-popping 4K release of "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" is an unpretentious, awe inspiring, game-changing and incomparable motion picture masterpiece that becomes more and more thrilling and richer with every viewing.

UNMISSABLE! FILM: CHURCHILL: Genre: Biography/Drama.

Cast: Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson (Clementine Churchill), John Slattery (Dwight Eisenhower), Julian Wadham (Bernard Montgomery).

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 98 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: Set in the four days in the lead-up to D-Day British Prime Minister Winston Churchill clashes with General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery against the plans of the invasion, while battling his own demons and plagued by depression brought on by exhaustion and fear of a repeat of his disastrous command which resulted in the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli in 1915.

Compelling psychological warts-and-all biographical-drama is brought vividly to life through the extraordinarily compelling performance by Brian Cox as the impulsive, brash, bullish, fearful, obsessive and hurting Winston Churchill, aided and superbly balanced

by Miranda Richardson as his long suffering but equally strong and determined wife, Clementine.

Written by Alex von Tunzelmann and directed by Australian Jonathan Teplitzky, with superb production design and period detail, another stand-out is the breathtaking Scottish locations and haunting imagery by cinematographer by David Higgs.

Far removed from the more traditional war movie or screen biography, this is a strong, haunting and poignant depiction inside the mind of an extraordinary man and historical figure, a beleaguered man terrified of those about to die, and fearful of being remembered as an architect of carnage.

FILM: HOUNDS OF LOVE: Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriiler.

Cast: Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Susie Porter.

Year: 2016.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 108 Minutes.

Stars: *** Verdict: Western Australia in 1988 and a disturbed young couple who cruise the streets in search of their next victim come upon a 17-year-old high school girl who they abduct and chain in a room in their house.

Impressive feature directorial debut by Ben Young and solid performances by Stephen Curry and Emma Booth as the brutal predators and tormentors, along with Ashleigh Cummings as their victim, all create visually striking, and undeniably harrowing psychological tale of depravity and horror.

Not unlike the harrowing David Lynch masterpiece "Blue Velvet," in shadowing the false surface of seemingly normal suburban life and revealing the dark side of suburbia that lies beneath, this is as compelling, chilling and uncomfortable to watch, an intensely tragic and ambiguous experience that is every parent's nightmare, and a haunting reality because we have seen it happen all too often.

Writer-director Ben Young is a talent to watch out for!

Rourke’s Reviews: The Devil’s Candy

● Jesse Hellman (Ethan Embry) struggles with inner demons in the eerie, stylish horror/thriller The Devil's Candy, out now on DVD. ■ (MA). 80 minutes. Now avail- Devil's Candy, it is well-worth your able on DVD. time.

After bursting onto the scene in It must be said that it is a huge 2009 with The Loved Ones, an un- disappointment that The Devil's forgettable mix of teen angst, black Candy has't been released on Blucomedy, and brutal horror, Aussie Ray in Australia, and with no exwriter/director Sean Byrne seemed tras. to fall off the map, despite the acWhen it screened at the colades and festival recognition (it Melbourne Film Festival last year, won the prestigious Midnight Byrne, who was a guest, provided Madness Award at the Toronto fascinating insight into how hard it Film Festival). is to finance a low-to-mid budget Then in 2015, fans were excited movie these days, as so much to hear of his sophomore effort, money is now pumped into televiwhich premiered at TIFF that year. sion or mega-expensive superhero After the success of The Loved extravaganzas.

Ones (which took over a year to An audio commentary from this reach Australian cinemas), it talented director would have been seemed logical that his follow-up wonderful (where he got the fundwould hit our shores much quicker ing, and how he got permission to this time, but unfortunately it hasn't use certain songs is equally combeen the case, with The Devil's pelling), as would have been beCandy finally arriving direct to DVD hind-the-scenes documentaries and in September. the footage deleted from his initial The story follows struggling art- cut. ist Jesse Hellman (Ethan Embry), RATING - ***½ who along with his wife Astrid (Shiri Appleby) and teenage daughter Zooey (Kiara Glasco), move into a rural house in Texas, (M). Various running times. Now which they've managed to pick up available on Blu-Ray and DVD. With the highly anticipated Blade at an insanely cheap price.

When previous tenant Ray Runner 2049 about to open cinSmilie (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who emas, it is of course the perfect time has recently been released from a to revisit the original, which changed mental asylum, turns up with an sci-fi as we knew it.

The Ridley Scott classic, electric guitar whose sounds seem to possess those that use the instru- adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples (from the book Do ment, all hell breaks loose.

Like his debut feature, Byrne Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? displays great visual flair, and just by Philip K. Dick), is one of those as importantly, has a great ear for few futuristic visions that hasn't sound design, with the demonic dated one bit, and thoroughly derumblings and chantings that fill the serves its legendary reputation.

For those three people out there soundtrack being utterly eerie and who don't own it, Blade Runner has unsettling.

What also sets this apart from been released again, this time on the pack is the care Byrne shows the 4K format, although it is only towards his characters, who are the most recent version, The Final then well-played by a well-chosen Cut, that has received the royal treatment. cast.

At the moment five official difCinematographer Simon Chapman and editor Andy Canny, ferent versions exist (many fan edwho have collaborated with Byrne its also exist); the work print;US since his excellent 2007 short film theatrical Cut; International Cut; Advantage, help craft this highly ef- The Director's Cut; and The Final fective mood piece to a slick, styl- Cut. The new edition doesn't have ish sheen, and there is a standout score from Mads Heldtberg and everything that was on the five disc set released a few years back, Michael Yezerski.

Only the fiery finale is some- which is a pity, but if you still don't what of a letdown, with its over- have this masterpiece in your colthe-top, illogical nature betraying lection, now is definitely the time the restrained, well-executed ten- to pick it up.

RATING - ***** sion that preceded it.

- Aaron Rourke Still, please search out The

Blade Runner

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7. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: Volume 2 [Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure/Chris Pratt].

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9. JOHN WICK 2 [Action/Crime/Thriller/ Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane].

Also: FREE FIRE, THE PROMISE, THE SHACK, WAKEFIELD, GET OUT, BECOMING BOND, FATE OF THE FURIOUS, NORMAN, BAYWATCH, KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD. NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON DVD THIS WEEK: IT COMES AT NIGHT [Horror/Mystery/Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott].

HOUNDS OF LOVE [Crime/Drama/Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings].

CHURCHILL [Biography/Drama/Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson].

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NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON BLU-RAY THIS WEEK: IT COMES AT NIGHT [Horror/Mystery/Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott].

HOUNDS OF LOVE [Crime/Drama/Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings].

CHURCHILL [Biography/Drama/Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson].

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT [SciFi/Action/Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins].

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: 40th Anniversary [Sci-Fi/Richard Dreyfuss].

THE FLY: Digitally Remastered Special Edition [1986/Horror/Thriller/Jeff Goldblum].

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ROANOKE. NEW & RE-RELEASE AND CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: 40th Anniversary [Sci-Fi/Richard Dreyfuss].

MURDER BY DECREE [Mystery/Crime/ Thriller/Christopher Plummer, James Mason].

THE FLY: Digitally Remastered Special Edition [1986/Horror/Thriller/Jeff Goldblum].

THE FLY II: Digitally Remastered Special Edition [1989/Horror/Thriller/Eric Stoltz].

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: HOUSE OF CARDS: Season 5.

ROAD HAUKS: Season 1.

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THE 100: Season 4.

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ROANOKE. DESCENDANTS 2.

THE MAGICIANS: Season 2.

CHICAGO P.D: Season 4.

DROP DEAD DIVA: Complete Collection.

- James Sherlock

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Royal due to tune in

■ Top colt Royal Symphony, unbeaten in four starts, is the one to beat in the time honoured Caulfield Guineas at Caulfield on October 14.

Leading trainer Tony McEvoy is quietly confident that the son of Domesday can match it with the best of them, especially after his great run at Flemington where he came from a near impossible position to get up in the last stride.

He has proved time and time again that he can overcome difficulties in the races that he has contested.

At present Royal Symphony is being quoted at just under each way odds, which I feel is very good odds.

At the time of going to press Royal Symphony was competing in the Guineas Prelude at Caulfield.

On the second line is the smart filly Catchy, who won the Blue Diamond early this year, and has come back well since.

Under the care of leading trainers, David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, she hasn't put a foot wrong, but the colt is strong.

I feel she is a better chance of winning the One Thousand Guineas for the Fillies at Caulfield, she is competing in the Fillies prelude at Caulfield as we go to press.

An interesting runner is Gold Standard, in the care of top trainer Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, who missed a place for the first time in five starts in the Golden Rose at Rosehill, officially fourth behind Trapeze Artist.

The James Cummings-trained Kementari is in the market at double figure odds, but is yet to produce the goods although as mentioned in a previous column, former top jockey Darren Beadman, now with the Godolpin Group,does like him very much.

He, with Gold Standard, is on $11, joined by Victorian galloper Merchant Navy, who failed to flatter in the Golden Rose after an unbeaten start to his career.

Prepared by top young Victorian trainer, Ciaron Maher, the son of Fastnet Rock, never looked a chance in the Golden Rose, and would have to improve, but he will be playing at home in the Guineas.

Also at $11 is the Golden Rose winner, Trapeze Artist, who surprised at $41.

He is prepared by one of Australia's most astute trainers, Gerald Ryan, who had the favourite Menari in the ‘Rose’, who finished third.

Prior to the running he declared that Menari was a good thing, and only bad luck could beat him, but the stablemate came home.

After the race he gave Trapeze Artist a chance at big odds; I wish he would have said that before the race.

I am sticking with the South Australian colt, Royal Symphony, he looks the complete package.

Stewards busy

■ Racing Victoria stewards were kept busy on Makybe Diva Stakes Day at Flemington with a number of well fancied horses failing to flatter.

Punters were not all happy when stewards allowed the well fancied South Australian filly, Roomooz, a last start winner being allowed to take her place in the field in race one.

She crashed into the mounting yard fence prior to the race, was checked by the vet, but allowed to run.

Punters who had backed the filly were not happy when she was gone along way out and her rider, Luke Currie, eased her right down in the concluding stages.

From the same race the favourite, Jorda, from the Godolphin camp, was well backed, but her rider, Kerrin Mc Evoy, said the straight run didn't suit the filly.

Stewards called for a vet examination which revealed that she had a slow recovery rate and a swab example was taken for analysis.

In the second the odds on favourite and ruling Caulfield Guineas favourite, Royal Symphony was in more trouble than the early settlers.

Stewards found that he began awkwardly and

● Royal Symphony gets up in its last stride. Racing Photos then crowded for room. He suffered a number myfriend, to skip away after leading and holdof incidents in the run, with his jockey, Dwayne ing Mr Sneaky up in the run.

Dunn, upset with a number of his fellow riders After the race Mr Sneaky's rider, Dwayne for not giving him a chance to get a clear run.

Dunn, said his horse had only a 200 metre sprint, From race 3, stewards found that the and he had to go early to try and catch the leader. favourite, Mr Sneaky, laid in under pressure You had to be at Flemington or watching from the 300 metres, allowing the leader and closely elsewhere to miss the run of top Westwell backed second favourite, Theanswer- ern Australian sprinter, Scales of Justice.

When approaching the 200 metre mark for the finish, his rider, Brad Rawiller, gave him a cut with the whip which he resented and wobbled all over the place giving Brad a scare.

He finished a good second to the Newmarket winner, Redkirk Warrior.

The rider of the winner, Redkirk Warrior, who will race in the rich Everest Sprint in Sydney soon, Regan Bayliss, was fined $400, for using the whip for two consecutive strides on two separate occasions prior to the 100 metre mark.

Leading jockey, Craig Williams, was suspended for 23 meetings for causing Damian Lane to fall for Limestone.

Both jockey and Horse were found to be OK, and Williams admitted that he was in the wrong, and that he wouldn't appeal the suspension.

In the Let's Elope Stakes, one of the top fancies, Oregon's Day, raced five wide, but after an examination after the race, was found to have a degree of mucus and also a degree of internal exercise induced pulmonary haemorrhage, that would have affected the mare's performance.

A vet clearance is required before she can race again.

To many the favourite in the Lets Elope, I Am A Star, was disappointing, but as her rider, explained pulling up that her weight of 59 kilos, was too much of a burden for the lightly framed mare.

Top Sydney galloper, Le Romain, failed to show his best, but there were reasons.

A post-race veterinary exam revealed a slow recovery and post-race endoscopy detected a degree of internal exercise induced pulmonary haemorrhage that may have affected the gelding's performance.

A vet clearance is required before he can race again.

Ted Ryan

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Wine Column ‘Girly’ colours

■ I've constantly been surprised at how Australian consumers treat wines that are pink in colour.

Have they been avoided in male company because our 'blokey' culture somehow rates pink as a 'girly' colour. I fear so.

And our winemakers probably haven't helped over the years by delivering so many pink wines with residual sweetness, I guess in the belief that the same 'girls' who adore pink will also go for something sweet.

The same bias certainly doesn't apply in southern Europe.

Walk into any restaurant in the south of France during warmer months and you'll probably see half the customers - in mixedgender groups or single-sex groups quaffing rosé - dry rosé - by the carafe.

And that's the way it should be here in Australia, where the climate in many places absolutely lends itself to this sort of drink, and good heavens, perhaps even with a couple of ice cubes thrown into the glass.

Thankfully, there's availability on quite a scale.

Much of it seems to come, at ridiculously low prices, from Provence and nearby areas, the southern French home of rosé.

How they manage to grow the grapes, make the wine, bottle it, then ship it half way round to Australia, then sell it for sometimes as little as $10 a bottle simply staggers me.

There's quite a bit of Australian stuff available, too, though some of it is still sweeter than it should be.

All I can do is to urge as many Australians as possible, including the blokiest of blokes, to follow the lead of so many of their compatriots at the Sydney Test match and to embrace pink as just as manly a colour as red or blue.

Try having a glass or two of dry rosé with a plate of prawns as you sit on the deck.

I'm sure that you'll enjoy the experience and not find it the slightest bit girly.

WINE REVIEWS Gerard Bertrand Cotes Des Roses Rose (about $20): This takes its name from the strip of coastline between the Provencal towns of Narbonne and Gruissan.

The crystal stopper and clear bottle with rose-shaped bottom make it a great gift.

It's fresh and full-flavoured and a delightful summer drink.

Torresella Pinot Grigio Rose (about $11): You'll have to cross into Italy's Veneto region to find the origins of this onion-skincoloured, refreshingly dry wine which is great on its own and the perfect accompaniment to a spring/summer barbecue.

Ripe pinot grigio (aka pinot gris) carries quite a bit of skin colour and seems well suited to making this style of wine.

WINE OF THE WEEK Arrogant Frog Ribet Pink Syrah Rose (as little as $10): You have to admire a Frenchman who takes on the world with a brand proclaiming the 'Arrogant Frog' and greets his customers with the word 'ribet'.

A lot of Mas's winemaking and marketing techniques reflect the Australian way and he's led very much from the front in bringing Languedoc out of the wilderness.

It's a lovely salmon-pink colour, light and dry on the palate, and very more-ish.

- John Rozentals

Briefly Peter Helliar publishes new book

● Catchy wins the Diamond Stakes. Racing Photos

■ Comedian and children’s author Peter Helliar will this month publish a special new Frankie Fish book, with a percentage of profits going to the Luke Batty Foundation .

Inspired by the genius prankster character he created, Helliar has written Best Ever Pranks (and More!), a guide to Frankie Fish’s favourite practical jokes, gags and mischief.

The book will also contain a special sneak peek of book two in the bestselling series: Frankie Fish and the Great Wall of Chaos (publishing March 2018).

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