There are two type of people in the universe. Those who want to be travel writers – and the Third World. To help you realise that hotly shared ambition, here’s Part B of the Q&A:
3 Best and worst things?
Waking up on the road, knowing your day will be unique. Even if it’s a trip [...]
Last month the Victorian Writers Centre [http://www.writers-centre.org/] grilled me on the sidelight of travel writing – does it pay? How much? And how the hell can a literate bum get away with it?
At least a bunch of questions along those lines. See if you can’t derive your own brand of sense from Part A, as [...]
Is Adam as nice as he seems?
That was the question I copped from all quarters – the female quarters in particular – on having met with TV host, Adam Hills for a Sunday Life profile.
Short answer, yes. Though nice can be a brand of asphyxia – as Nice Plague on your right will prove. Better [...]
Quiz buffs take note – you are often wiser to ask the audience, than phone a friend. Not that your friend is dumb, but a crowd collectively carries more smarts. I know – counterintuitive but true.
That’s a key plank in James Suroweicki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, a book http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/ I explored for Sunday Life magazine [...]
They came. They jumped. They hit the water hard.
Pretty much the order of things in the Birdman Rally on the Yarra last Saturday. Twenty-one grownups, dressed as swans, cockatoos and superheroes, attached to fiberglass butterlfies, three-eyed fish and balsa wings, ran full pelt off the 4-metre platform and…well…splash.
Congratz to Michael Paul who eked 10 metres [...]
The correct rainbow should appear like so:
Denzel Washington: Crimson Tide, Devil in a Blue Dress, Bone Collector
Andie MacDowell: Green Card, Ruby Cairo, Greystoke
Sean Connery: Hunt for Red October, Goldfinger, Name of the Rose
That’s enough tickling of the palette for now. Look for a new tangent next post.
The answer is kaleidoscopic, each star featuring in a film from the colour charts:
Demi Moore – Scarlet Letter
Kevin Kline – Pink Panther
Nicole Kidman – Emerald City
Robert de Niro – Jackie Brown
Andy Garcia – Black Rain
Maggie Smith – Ladies in Lavender
Charlie Sheen – Navy Seals
Tom Hanks – Green Mile
Penelope Cruz – Vanilla Sky
John Cusack – Thin [...]
Last chance to unveil the connection between the ten stars below. What ten films – starring each star – share a clear link?
Demi Moore
Kevin Kline
Nicole Kidman
Robert de Niro
Andy Garcia
Maggie Smith
Charlie Sheen
Tom Hanks
Penelope Cruz
John Cusack
Answer in a day or two. Can you get there first?
Now the list is lengthening. Can you figure out the verbal link shared by the seven stars below?
Demi Moore
Kevin Kline
Nicole Kidman
Robert de Niro
Andy Garcia
Maggie Smith
Charlie Sheen
Last bunch of stars in the next day or two. Can you guess the group’s link?
You probably know the score by now. I’ll drop a few actors’ names over the week, and see how quickly you can identify the connection. The link will somehow relate to a title of specific movie in which each star has starred. Good luck. So let’s start with these three:
Demi Moore
Kevin Kline
Nicole Kidman