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From Brian
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Pictured: Lynda
and Jools Topp, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell,
Mahe Drysdale, Tall
Blacks' Lindsay Tait and Kirk Penney, Zöe Bell
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling
of global media appearing in Nylon, Toronto Star, USA Today, BBC News,
Financial Director, Financial Times, Examiner.com, Guardian, Times Online,
Philippine Star, Vogue Australia, Daily Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald,
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Telegraph, Nhân Dân and Wall Street
Journal include:
• Topp
Twins, singers, yodelers, Untouchable Girls film plays
Toronto Film Festival Sunday
• Alistair
Te Ariki Campbell, poet of South Pacific complexities, dies, 84
– Guardian*
• Mahe
Drysdale, 31, unbeatable in Poland; 4th single-skulls title – USA
Today
• Tall
Blacks thump Boomers 100–78; earn spot at 2010 World Champs –
USA Today
• Zöe
Bell, “stuntmaster turned actor of the moment” in Angel
of Death – Examiner.com
• Fonterra’s
secret weapon, vast areas of clean grass; competitive advantage – Philippine
Star
• Meridian
Energy buy US solar facility to explore potential in NZ – Wall
Street Journal
• Emirates
Team NZ “back to their best” winning back-to-back regattas
– Telegraph
• New
Zealand wine, favourite for Australians; exports up by 31% – Sydney
Morning Herald
• Rob
McCallum, veteran polar explorer, leads search for Amundsen’s
plane – BBC
• Kevin
Hayes, London-based Man Group’s FD and hedge fund maestro– Financial
Director
• Jan
Nye, development advisor, Dili, 59, cycles inaugural Tour de
Timor – Voice of America
• Anna
Paquin aka Sookie Stackhouse, who “has an Oscar and a cool
accent”, talks to Nylon
• Judy
Millar, Auckland artist, “at home where the world ceases to
exist” – Financial Times
• University
of Otago study shows boys perform best in single-sex schools – Reuters
• Neil
Finn, Liam, Elroy, brother Tim, Wilco create album of “real
gems” – Times Online
• Jane
Campion’s ’93 film The Piano “seminal moment in
Australian cinema” – Vogue Australia
• Mark
Blumsky, former mayor, on Slippers: Service and Selling –
Sydney Morning Herald
• Kiri
Te Kanawa no “elitist”; opera sung by people from “ordinary
backgrounds” – Guardian
• Ian
Yeoman, travel futurologist, predicts robot service, space
tourism, indoor ski – Daily Mail
• Dave
Murray one of four NZers in grueling two-week 1000km Mongol Derby
• Rachel
Reid, 17, wins US scholarship, and time to be with ill sister –
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Jossi
Wells, 19, Wanaka skier, silver at NZ Winter Games, “big news
overseas”
• James
Kember, ambassador to Vietnam, earns medal for peace, friendship
– Nhân Dân
• Shane
Bond, 34, back to international cricket after two-year hiatus –
Reuters India
* In Wellington
Alistair Campbell associated with a rebellious set of young writers who
became known as the Wellington Group and published his first book of poetry,
Mine Eyes Dazzle (1950), which was hailed by the New Zealand poet
James K Baxter as "one of the defining events of recent New Zealand
poetry". Its greatest poem, Elegy, memorialises a friend
killed in a mountaineering accident: "The shattered cliff's sheer/ Face
spurts myriads/ Of waterfalls, like tears/ From some deep-bowed head/ Whose
colossal grief is stone." (Guardian)
Here are the Top 10 titles for August:
- Flare
– A Ski Trip, NFU short film 1977 – Funky promotional
doco featuring snow 'ski ballet'
- A
Haunting We Will Go, TV series 1980 – Debut of milk-loving
vampire Count Homognized
- Revolution
– Fortress NZ, doco 1996 – Series mapping late 80s
economic reforms
- Trio
At The Top, doco 2001 – NZ motor-racing legends McLaren,
Hulme and Amon
- Play
School, TV series 1975–1990 – Iconic educational
programme for preschoolers
- Top
Town, TV series 1977– Town against town, long-running
light-entertainment gold
- Billy
T James
– Live, TV series 1990 – Swansong for much-loved,
non-pc comedian
- Ten
Guitars, doco 1996 – Doco exploring the unlikely
"national anthem of Patea"
- It's
In The Bag, TV Series 1973–1990 – Selwyn Toogood's
popular travelling TV quiz show
- Patu!,
feature film 1983 – Merata Mita's startling doco about the 1981
Springbok tour
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