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I Can't Get Started (film)
''I Can't Get Started'' is a 1985 Australian film about a man who writes a successful novel.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p84 References External links *''I Can't Get Started''at Peter Malone Australian drama films 1985 films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Fisher
Goodshirt are an Alternative rock, alternative/Pop music, pop/Rock music, rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. The band formed when keyboardist Gareth Thomas left his computer recording setup with the Fisher brothers, Rodney and Murray, for safe keeping. While still a three piece, the band submitted their song "Good (Goodshirt album), Green" to a track competition run by radio station 9inety6dot1. Subsequently, station manager Grant Hislop became their manager, and the band was rounded out with drummer Mike Beehre joining the fold. "Sophie", the fourth single from their debut album ''Good'', was a number one single in New Zealand. ''Good'' was released in Canada, Australia, and Japan. A second album, ''Fiji Baby'', was released in 2004. Like its predecessor, it reached number 5 in the New Zealand charts. The band went on hiatus in 2005 when Rodney Fisher moved to London to work with Breaks Co-Op, but reunited in 2011, and in early 2012 they began playing again with support gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brennan (producer)
Richard Brennan may refer to: * Richard Brennan (barrister), Irish lawyer and officer in the Irish Defence Forces *Dick Brennan (journalist) (born 1969), American journalist * Rich Brennan (born 1972), American ice hockey player *Richard Brennan (filmmaker), producer of ''The Love Letters from Teralba Road'' *Richard Brennan (restaurateur) Richard J. “Dick” Brennan Sr. (1931-March 14, 2015) was a New Orleans restaurateur who, along with his siblings in the 1970s, transformed Commander's Palace “into the definitive modern Creole restaurant of its generation.” The Brennan Fami ... (1931–2015), New Orleans restaurateur, operated the Commander's Palace * Dick Brennan (hurler) (1885–1963), Irish hurler {{hndis, Brennan, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters.Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School (Australian TV series), Play School'' for 18 years. Career [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Hughes
Wendy Hughes (29 July 19528 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. In her later career she acted in '' Happy New Year'' along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in '' Homicide: Life on the Street.'' In the late 1990s, she starred in '' State Coroner'' and '' Paradise Road.'' Career Born in Melbourne, Australia to English-born parents, Hughes originally studied to become a ballerina but during her teenage years she turned her focus to acting and later graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and, after honing her skills with the Melbourne Theatre Company, had her first film role in ''Petersen'' (1974). During the early 1970s she also had her first television parts, including appearing in ''Power Without Glory'', a television series fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Mitchell
Heather Lee Mitchell (born 1958) is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show '' Spellbinder''. Career Television Mitchell is well known for her performance as Ashka in the Australian/Polish co-productions of '' Spellbinder'' (1995), and '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'' (1997). The series was a popular children's fantasy program first broadcast in 1995. Other television series include: the miniseries ''Bodyline'' (1984), ''Land of Hope'' (1986), ''Embassy'' (1992) and ''A Country Practice''. In 1998, she starred in the miniseries drama ''The Day of the Roses,'' in which she played a victim of the 1977 Granville rail disaster. She has also appeared in episodes of ''Five Mile Creek'' (1984), '' Rake'' (2010), ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' (2013), and ''Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Drama Films
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1985 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Context The year was considered an unsuccessful one for film. Despite a record number of film releases, many films failed at the box office, and ticket sales were down 17% compared with 1984. Industry executives believed the problem, in part, was a lack of original concepts. Films about fantasy and magic failed, as audiences leaned towards science-fiction. Janet Maslin said the fault for this lay partly with Steven Spielberg, who had created such a successful template with films like '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' and ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' that many fantasy films had imitated them. There was also a saturation of youth-oriented films targeted at those under 18. Executi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s English-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar (title), Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus (title), Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I of Byzantium, Marcus I succeeds Olympianus of Byzantium, Olympianus as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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