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louisev:
that little Oscar is a real cutie! I wonder if he intends to go into acting.
MaineWriter:
some Hugh news:
Look Hugh's getting nominated
May 7, 2008
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Hugh Jackman has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award for his star turn as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz.
The shortlist of nominees for the 2008 Australian Dance Awards were announced today, with Melbourne dance company Lucy Guerin Inc topping the list with four nominations from the nine categories.
Jackman was put forward for outstanding performance in a stage musical, alongside Tony Sheldon for Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Silvia Entcheva and Tobias Cole for This Show Is About People.
Jackman played Allen from 2003 to 2004 in the US, and again in 2006 in Australia.
He has already won a Tony Award for best lead actor in a musical for his performance.
The 2008 awards recognise excellence across all dance forms, presented between July 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007.
The nominees for outstanding performance by a female dancer include Kirstie McCracken, Lisa Griffiths, Lucinda Dunn and Sarah Jayne Howard.
Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry, Paul White and Reed Luplau are nominated in the outstanding performance by a male dancer category.
Winners will be announced on June 15.
AAP
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/05/07/1210131121458.html
MaineWriter:
Jackman back to the Big Apple
Shelly Horton
May 5, 2008
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness are planning to move the family to New York after X-Men Origins: Wolverine wraps in June.
We've loved having the A-listers home and their class and down-to-earth attitude will be sorely missed. Australia's loss is America's gain.
Last week Furness jumped on a plane with seven-year-old Oscar to spend two weeks in the Big Apple looking for schools.
She told S that it is a difficult process over there, with IQ tests for her son and gruelling rounds of interviews for the parents.
Somewhat unlike Sydney, where Oscar chose his school because it had a great art department and the chicks were cute (sounds like Oscar is developing his dad's way with the ladies).
Furness said that, though she will miss Sydney, a big part of her heart is in New York and she's excited about going back to see her girlfriends and visiting her old stomping grounds.
Jackman is halfway through shooting the latest Wolverine flick and is really enjoying his fourth time putting the claws on.
But even superheroes can't beat a dodgy prawn: Jackman got a mild case of food poisoning which halted film production for a day. The film is due to wrap in June but Jackman might stay a little longer for Australian publicity commitments.
We'll take every day we can get!
Source: The Sun-Herald
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/04/1209839435268.html
MaineWriter:
Baz Luhrmann's Australia highly rated by Jack Thompson
Article from: The Courier-Mail
By Rodney Chester
May 10, 2008 12:00am
IT might not be in the cinema for another six months, but film legend Jack Thompson has declared Baz Luhrmann's Australia would be one of our best films ever.
Much of the movie was shot around Bowen, which has been chosen to host the national premiere of the movie starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman on November 13.
And while the film has been kept tightly under wraps, Thompson along with other cast members has seen a 12-minute selection of scenes from the finished film.
"They are breathtaking. I cried, I laughed," Thompson said.
"I was knocked out by it. I am so proud of it and I know we're involved in a major Australian film, one of the great Australian films.
"You can never tell until a film is released what people may or may not like about it, but it is no doubt that it is one of the most significant Australian films ever made.
"Just the very scope of it, the heart of it."
If Thompson's prediction is right, the success of Australia could be partly due to the cast list that includes some of the country's best actors.
Jackman, Thompson, and Kidman are joined by David Wenham, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn, John Jarratt, Ray Barrett and Barry Otto. It is also the first film Thompson and Bryan Brown have made together since Bruce Beresford's 1980 classic Breaker Morant.
Thompson was in Brisbane on Wednesday for the launch of the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, to be held on the Gold Coast in November, where he was named patron.
For his next big screen role, Thompson reunites with Beresford for Mao's Last Dancer, a historical film shot in China and Australia that is due for release in 2010.
Thompson said the success of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, launched last year, was recognition of the strength of the local film industry.
"When I was a kid, when we played goodies and baddies we adopted an American accent, because goodies and baddies were on the screen and they were all American," he said.
"Unless you were playing a war hero, (then) you adopted a British accent because they made all the good war movies.
"As a result of the development of a film industry in Australia we now have Australian heroes.
"It would have been impossible to even conceive of a major feature film called Australia 30 years ago."
Premier Anna Bligh announced yesterday the awards would have an academy, made up of those nominated for an award, which would strengthen the bonds between the region's various filmmakers.
The awards honour the work of filmmakers selected from more than 70 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
MaineWriter:
Hugh Jackman's star reborn?
Article from: Sunday Herald Sun
May 04, 2008 12:00am
AUSTRALIAN leading man Hugh Jackman may be considering a return to Broadway more than three years after laying down his maracas.
Jackman is said to be in talks to appear in a stage adaptation of A Star is Born in New York.
It would mark his Broadway return after he won a coveted Tony Award for portraying Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz.
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