On the heels of Poowong getting to host the toilet-humour premiere of Kenny, we got to wondering where offshore films – past or present – may opt to screen their Oz debuts.
Here’s a list of maybes. Feel free to add your own:
Dead Poets Society – Byron Bay
16 Candles – Young
Chasing Tin – Zeehan
Cars – Bathurst
Star [...]
Kenny is a new Australian biopic, where bio stands for biodegradable.
Created by Clayton Jacobson, the movie follows Kenny Smyth, a plumber with a twist, or an ess-band anyway. Those with a nose for that kind of stuff can check http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822389/ at your own convenience.
Keeping with the toilet gags the the Gippsland town of Poowong was [...]
A sign on Hartley Street, Alice Springs: NO PARKING – CAMELS, HORSES, COACHES EXCEPTED.
Shades of that queer kerbside command in Byron Bay (NSW) which may puzzle a good many out of context: 15 MINUTES, NOSE IN 7 DAYS.
Seen a few more scintillating signs en route. Feel free to park your nose in, 24/7.
In the PubTab wing of the Courthouse Hotel in Port Douglas (Q), a horse’s head pokes from the wall above the cashier’s window. The barman calls the horse Pharlap, and says he’s been on the wall for donkey’s years.
Can’t be too many towns named after a horse – let alone founded by a horse!
(Following on from our last zoo-art entry, this trail-blazing horse deserves a special mention in dispatches.)
As the hoof of Norseman, a handsome steed owned by Laurie Sinclair, raked the earth one day, in 1894, and uncovered a lump of gold.
Alfred [...]
Two curious statues populate Nhill (V) – both devoted to animals.
The first, opposite the Commonwealth Bank, is a tribute to all the hard yards performed by the draught horse in opening up the Western District to wheat and pasture.
The second, outside the Shire Council, shows two lowans canoodling on a mound. Huh, lowans? Better known [...]
Yes, the law firm on Wharf Street, in Forster (NSW), specializes in personal injury claims, as you’d expect with a name like Stacks.
Shades of Geoff and Diane Black who run the funeral home in Tully (Q). Or the sign on Napier Street, in Deniliquin (NSW), that advertises Short’s Electrical Supplies.
Know any other ‘aptonyms’ around the [...]
There’s a secret garden 12kms north of Kempsey. Little known by travelers who speed along the Pacific Highway, the shrine deserves a visit.
The site remains the worst road accident in Australian history. The collision occurred in 1989, between two crowded coaches a few days short of Christmas, making a sound that no Clybucca farmer wants [...]
West of Cowra, on the Western Highway, Sylvia Brind can turn a dropsheet into the Land of Oz. Her scene-painting talents were seen every season at the Grenfell Dramatic Society, and now in more permanent fashion thanks to the community curtain.
In 2000, a craft bee converted a blank cloth into a 5-panel picture of Grenfell’s [...]
“I identify with Superman,” admits Bryan Singer, the director of Superman Returns. “I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he’s the ultimate immigrant.”
Singer’s logic is sound. Hollywood is another world. And just as alien as Superman’s home planet of Krypton to the [...]