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  • She takes the role of Nina Tucker (2002-2003, 2004) in the 1918 production of All Woman.

  • In 1999, Delta Goodrem plays Alison Ashley in the Her Deepest Fantasies.

  • For the 1995 show Gogs Ogof, she plays the part of Herself.

  • For the 1929 show Gore i radost zhenshchiny, Delta Goodrem stars as Herself.

  • For the 1983 release of The Great Sadness of Zohara, Delta Goodrem stars as Herself.

  • In 1986, she stars as Performer in the feature Gwyncilla: Legend of Dark Ages.

  • Soccer Bride Delta Goodrem

    
    Brian McFadden will tie the knot with Delta Goodrem this year - but only if they can find a date which doesn't clash with the soccer World Cup.The former Westlife star - who proposed to the former 'Neighbours' actress three years ago, a year after he divo
    on 2010-01-26 04:51:51

  • Delta and Brian's 2010 vow

    
    WILL this finally be the year that Delta Goodrem actually marries Brian McFadden? According to the one-time Westlife star, they're "working on it".
    on 2010-01-26 04:51:24

  • Goodrem, McFadden 'to marry this year'

    
    AUSTRALIAN songstress Delta Goodrem and her Westlife star boyfriend Bryan McFadden are preparing to finally walk down the aisle later this year.
    on 2010-01-25 04:46:50

  • Delta Goodrem Celebrates Album Success

    
    Delta Goodrem is finally celebrating the success of her debut album - because her battle with cancer took the shine off her 2003 release Innocent Eyes. The singer was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma just weeks after the record reached the top spot in h
    on 2010-01-09 04:47:58

  • Delta's talents top the charts

    
    DELTA Goodrem and Guy Sebastian claim biggest selling album and single of the decade.
    on 2010-01-07 04:48:00

  • Delta's talents top the charts

    
    DELTA Goodrem and Guy Sebastian claim biggest selling album and single of the decade.
    on 2010-01-07 04:47:53

  • Delta's private NYE party with Kyle

    
    DELTA Goodrem and fiance Brian McFadden threw a private New Year's Eve party at her Hunters Hill home with celebrity guests including Kyle Sandilands.
    on 2010-01-01 04:52:51

  • Goodrem Too Sick To Perform

    
    Delta Goodrem has pulled out of another gig due to a nasty allergic reaction.The singer was due to perform with her fiance Brian McFadden at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne on Tuesday but she's had to axe the gig because she's too sick
    on 2009-12-09 04:48:42

  • Another no-show for Delta

    
    DAYS after letting down fans at the Opera House, Delta Goodrem has cancelled another performance.
    on 2009-12-08 04:48:36

  • Another no-show for Delta

    
    DAYS after letting down fans at the Opera House, Delta Goodrem has cancelled another performance.
    on 2009-12-08 04:48:32

  • Inside Delta and Brian's management split

    
    SHE may be on a songwriting trip overseas, but Delta Goodrem is Australia-bound after her and boyfriend Brian McFadden split from their international manager.
    on 2009-10-26 04:46:37

  • Brian McFadden Does 'Celebrity' For Kids

    
    Brian McFadden is to appear on 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'.The former Westlife singer- who now lives in Australia with girlfriend Delta Goodrem - hopes appearing on the tough celebrity reality contest will boost his profile and help raise cas
    on 2009-09-22 04:48:27

  • Delta to wed McFadden at 'ideal time'

    
    AFTER shaking off a rumoured split, Delta Goodrem confirms wedding plans with ex-Westlife singer Brian McFadden.
    on 2009-08-11 04:47:36

  • Delta to wed McFadden at 'ideal time'

    
    AFTER shaking off a rumoured split, Delta Goodrem confirms wedding plans with ex-Westlife singer Brian McFadden.
    on 2009-08-10 04:46:33

  • McFadden tipped to replace idle Kyle

    
    MR Delta Goodrem leads the list of contenders for the vacant Australian Idol judging role.
    on 2009-08-07 04:48:55

  • McFadden tipped to replace idle Kyle

    
    MR Delta Goodrem leads the list of contenders for the vacant Australian Idol judging role.
    on 2009-08-07 04:48:47

  • Cyber stalker threatens Delta

    
    DELTA Goodrem and her popstar fiancé Brian McFadden have consulted security experts after being cyber-stalked on Twitter by a man with a messiah complex.
    on 2009-07-31 04:48:43

  • Delta's stalker security nightmare

    
    DELTA Goodrem and Brian McFadden have consulted security experts after being cyber-stalked on Twitter by a man with a messiah complex.
    on 2009-07-31 04:48:23

  • Delta's stalker security nightmare

    
    STAR music couple Delta Goodrem and her fiance Brian McFadden have consulted security experts after being cyber-stalked on Twitter by a man with a messiah complex.
    on 2009-07-31 04:48:16

  • Goodrem And Mcfadden in Sinister Cyber Squabble

    
    Pop star couple Delta Goodrem and Brian McFadden have called in security experts after receiving frightening Twitter.com texts from an alleged stalker.The Aussie star and her Irish fiance are considering taking out a restraining order against the mystery
    on 2009-07-31 04:49:01

  • Delta grieves for lifelong mate

    
    DELTA Goodrem was urgently flying home from the UK with fiance Brian McFadden after the sudden death of one of her oldest and best friends.
    on 2009-07-21 04:47:54

  • Looking for new lines

    
    DELTA Goodrem has jetted off on a round the world jaunt, where she will team up with songwriters in the UK and the US to work on tracks for her next album.
    on 2009-07-07 04:49:51

  • Delta goes the distance

    
    DELTA Goodrem put her best foot forward in the name of charity , lining up to complete the last leg of The Nuns' Run, a 400km walk for cancer research.
    on 2009-06-06 04:48:37

  • Delta and Brian in the 'burbs

    
    DELTA Goodrem and fiancé Brian McFadden have packed up their fashionable Woolloomooloo apartment to move to the suburbs.
    on 2009-05-29 04:51:27

  • Is 2009 the year of the break-up?

    
    SO Delta Goodrem and Brian McFadden have postponed their wedding, Mel Gibson has a new girlfriend and Peter Andre and Katie Price are divorcing.
    on 2009-05-25 04:46:28

  • Delta Goodrem puts wedding on hold

    
    DELTA Goodrem and her fiance Brian McFadden have postponed their planned Christmas wedding, citing "increased work commitments".
    on 2009-05-25 04:46:23

  • Delta Goodrem puts wedding on hold

    
    DELTA Goodrem and her fiance Brian McFadden have postponed their planned Christmas wedding.
    on 2009-05-24 04:47:17

  • Delta becomes a judge on Idol

    
    DELTA Goodrem is hoping to impart words of wisdom when she joins the judging panel on Australian Idol.
    on 2009-05-15 04:49:42

  • Delta becomes a judge on Idol

    
    DELTA Goodrem is hoping to impart words of wisdom when she joins the judging panel on Australian Idol.
    on 2009-05-15 04:49:35

  • Goodrem joins Idol judges

    
    AUSSIE singing star Delta Goodrem is hoping she can impart some words of wisdom when she joins the judging panel for the Sydney auditions of Australian Idol.
    on 2009-05-14 04:48:43
  • In alt.showbiz.gossip Rick in Oz wrote: : http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19278861-5001026,00.html : Delta: Leave us alone : By NUI Te KOHA : May 28, 2006 : A TUG-OF-LOVE for Delta Goodrem has erupted between her mother and boyfriend : Brian McFadden. : Lea Goodrem, also her daughter's manager, and a team of advisers, have told : Delta to ditch McFadden because he is ruining her career. : But, in an angry letter to Team Delta, sighted by The Sunday Telegraph, : McFadden warned his detractors to back off. : A fired up McFadden said: "You don't know anything about my career or : future. : "Delta is an intelligent, talented woman who is making decisions by herself. : "Be choice with your words in the future." : McFadden accuses his rivals of having "little knowledge of the music : industry on a global scale." Unlike him (who?) Fiona
  • http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15959611%255E28957 ,00.html Delta Goodrem exposed 18jul05 THE delightfully wholesome Delta Goodrem turned a rosy shade of pink during her Saturday concert when a minor wardrobe malfunction halted the show. A problem with Goodrem's battery pack, to use with her radio microphone, was the first little hurdle to overcome. But the situation was made much worse when a technician was called out on stage at Rod Laver Arena to remedy the problem. In the guy's frantic efforts to get the show moving again, he raised Delta's long flowing gown a couple of centimetres too high and the star suddenly had her Delta brandname knickers flashed to the sold-out matinee crowd of mums and kids. The embarrassed singer apologised to her young audience before continuing the show in her typically professional way. The concert however was not without other dramas. The Eye believes Delta's Irish beau, Brian McFadden, lost a tooth before or after the show and was quickly ferried to a dentist to have the problem rectified. Despite the hiccups, the audience seemed totally enamoured by the overall concert. Delta and Brian added another duet to the line-up, singing one of Brian's hits from his Westlife days, Flying without Wings. Talk that a Delta backlash has been brewing has been quashed by news that the star has sold 70-80,000 tickets to the Visualise tour, making it one of the biggest tours this country has seen in years. Delta and Brian will be hoping that they have used up all their bad luck because we hear one of the Sydney shows this weekend will be filmed for a concert DVD.
  • http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1186473,00.html Why Kerry Can't Get Married It must be the change in weather, but love is definitely in the air these days - not least for Kerry Katona. She's keen to get hitched to her new partner Dave - but has the small matter of getting divorced from ex-Westlife warbler Brian McFadden first. "I am head over heels in love," gushed Kerry, 24. "I would marry Dave tomorrow if he asked me. "But I have got to get divorced first of all." The former Atomic Kitten went through a messy split with Brian, 25, in which Bri's involvement with Aussie singer Delta Goodrem was a factor. But ever the trooper, Kerry's bounced back - straight into the arms of Dave, a printer in her native Warrington. "I've had a fair few ups and downs but I've got Dave, the kids and my mum - and that's all I need," she tells OK! magazine. The feeling's returned by Dave, 26, who moved into Kerry's pad after only a month. "We're really serious about each other and I just hope that things carry on like they have been doing." But when asked what her worst habit was, he let rip - so to speak: "When she farts they stink," Dave said, "and she's proud of them." Very ladylike, Ms Katona.
  • http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1258&storyid=31639 66 Brave Kylie wins cancer fight By SHARRI MARKSON and PHILLIP KOCH May 22, 2005 SURGEONS who removed a cancerous lump from Kylie Minogue's breast are confident they have caught the disease in time. Dr Jenny Senior yesterday pronounced the operation a success and predicted the pop star would make a full recovery. "The operation is considered best practice around the world for a girl with an early breast cancer," she said after the surgery at Melbourne's Cabrini Hospital. "I'm very pleased to be able confirm the operation was successful. "I feel confident that we caught the cancer in time and she is now on the road to a complete recovery." Dr Senior said Kylie was feeling fine and in high spirits as she rested after Friday's operation. Surrounding her were family and boyfriend Olivier Martinez who has been keeping a 24-hour vigil at her bedside and has been described as her 'rock' by friends. "Kylie has been the perfect patient and has charmed all my staff. I just wish I could have met her under happier circumstances," Dr Senior said. "I would also like to thank her family and Olivier for making my job very easy. They were so welcoming." She said Kylie had asked her to pass on her thanks to "to all who have expressed their love and concern for her. Your support has certainly helped her through a tough time." French film star Martinez stayed with Kylie throughout the night after the emergency operation. He looked exhausted and emotionally drained as drove out of the hospital carpark in a black Nissan sedan at 11.45am yesterday morning. It is understood the Hollywood star and Kylie spent the night comforting each other in a private room in the operating theatre. According to the National Breast Cancer Centre the treatment options for early breast cancer are dependent on the women's condition but doctors will usually advise surgery. This may involve breast conserving surgery, where only the tumour and a small area around it is removed, or a mastectomy where the whole breast is removed. Kylie 36, was yesterday recovering from both the operation and her first session of radiotherapy treatment, according to hospital staffers. "She had radiotherapy and she is on a drip," one hospital employee confirmed yesterday. A close family friend said yesterday that Kylie, Martinez and her family were hopeful she would make a quick recovery and be performing again soon. "It's all a bit of wait and see at the moment." Martinez has hardly left Kylie's side since he urged her to seek help after she fell ill on a plane to Melbourne two weeks ago and later discovered a lump in her breast. "This is our fight," he reportedly told his superstar girlfriend. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm here for you now and nothing else matters. Just get well." It was the prayer of her millions of fans yesterday with everyone from Prime Minister John Howard, whose wife Janette had a cancer scare, to cancer survivor, Delta Goodrem sending messges of support. Goodrem yesterday posted a message of hope for Kylie on her website, wishing her a speedy recovery. "My thoughts and love go out to Kylie and her family at this most sensitive and personal time," she said. Kylie spent yesterday being comforted by Martinez, her sister Dannii, who flew in from London to be by her side on Friday, her camerman brother, Brendan and parents Ron and Carol. But it is her soulmate and boyfriend of two years Martinez, who has become her "rock" during the ordeal, according to friends and relatives. Martinez's father Robert told British Daily Mirror newspaper that his son was "devastated but he know the only important thing is to see her well."
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=61131746&p=6yy3zx48&n=6 1132126 Goodrem launches teen cancer website 13/05/2005 - 16:19:23 Cancer survivor Delta Goodrem is urging teenage sufferers of the disease to visit a new website she has helped to launch. The sexy Australian singer released one of 180 balloons - representing the number of teenagers who are diagnosed with cancer every month - beside London's River Thames earlier this week to draw attention to the new help site. And Goodrem - who was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma in 2003 - is encouraging young victims to log on to www.click4tic.org.uk and realise other teens are suffering with them. She says: "I'm so lucky to be here still. It was definitely a huge learning experience for me. It was an extremely hard time. "Anybody can go on the website, ask questions and meet other people who are going through it... You don't have to feel so alone."
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Whats-the-delay-here/2005/05/05/11150926014 36.html What's the delay here? By KATRINA LOBLEY May 6, 2005 Tori Amos had to go through Eminem, Slayer and Joe Jackson to get to her own work. Tori Amos, the original piano princess, must be doing something right. After all, it's more than a decade since she was last in town. One might have thought the height of her popularity was back then, as she played three nights at the State Theatre. She was touring a hit second album, Under the Pink, and a hit single, Cornflake Girl, that somehow seemed to define Amos herself. Amos, the daughter of a preacher, had burst onto the scene in 1992 with her stark, confessional, piano-driven debut Little Earthquakes. In it, she sang of religion of relationships. The songs included the haunting Me and a Gun, which described her experience being raped at knifepoint by a man she'd given a ride to after playing piano in a Los Angeles bar. In the years since then, Australian fans have waited - and waited - for the Cornflake Girl to return. But Amos was busy getting on with life. She got married, suffered a series of miscarriages and moved from her native US to England with her British sound engineer husband Mark Hawley. They had a daughter, Natashya, in 2000. Amos says her young daughter was the reason she couldn't travel as far as Australia. Australian fans were so fed up with waiting for her to tour Down Under that they started an online petition. More than 600 signatures later, Amos, who saw the petition when it was thrown onstage at one of her US shows, is finally coming. Some may think the 41-year-old has long had her day, having been replaced by younger tinklers of the ivories such as Delta Goodrem and Missy Higgins but Amos has sold out three shows at the Sydney Opera House, with tickets going for $99 to $110. It's not bad going at all, especially for someone who breezily admits that her third disc, Boys for Pele, didn't have a single on it. But Amos has clocked up some enviable statistics during her career: 12 million albums sold and eight Grammy nominations. In the early 1990s, her music broke new ground. "My first record was rejected," Amos says from her Cornwall home. "They [Atlantic Records] wanted to take all the pianos off and put guitars on - what a brilliant idea, huh! So for Little Earthquakes I had to fight for its survival, for it to be what you hear, because girls playing pianos were not happening in those days on any kind of level that was thought of as successful. "That was the first fight. Then to become my own producer? Are you kidding me? They wanted to bring in the big guns after Little Earthquakes and I demanded that [producer] Eric Rosse and I hold that position. "So every step of the way I had to retain what I thought was the integrity of the music. "As soon as a record company tastes success, the biggest mistake they usually make is they try and chase after it. You can't make the same kind of record and think the public will respond in the same way. "They responded to Little Earthquakes because it came from an honest place. So you cannot contrive another honest place." It wasn't long before Amos was fighting to escape her eight-album deal with Atlantic. She couldn't break her contract, so her kiss-off to Atlantic was 2001's Strange Little Girls, an album in which she gave a female perspective to songs such as Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde, Slayer's Raining Blood and Joe Jackson's Real Men. "I wasn't going to give any more full albums of my own material because I felt like [Atlantic] were the hand that rocks the cradle," Amos says. "And I saw my songs very much as my girls. I had to come up with projects I felt had musical integrity and that was very tricky at the time. I was walking a tightrope." On her latest album, The Beekeeper, Amos's "girls" are as strange as ever. Her duet with Irish troubadour Damien Rice, The Power of Orange Knickers, turns out to be about terrorism. "The word 'terrorist' needed to be undressed because, let's face it, if you're having the picture [the authorities] want you to have, then you're either going to have a picture of a guy with a turban or a guy in an army uniform. "I don't like being manipulated."
  • http://seven.com.au/news/topstories/77521 Delta denies sacking mum Date: 27/04/05 Pop star Delta Goodrem has denied reports that she's sacked her manager mum, Lea. The singer - who's currently in the US - says she's simply looking for an international manager to work with her mother to manage her career. Goodrem has told fans via her official website, deltagoodrem.com, that her relationship with her mother is as strong as ever - and they're a great team. Newspaper reports have suggested Goodrem was heartbroken at having to tell her mother that she could no longer manage her music career. The Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph quoted a source at Goodrem's record label, Sony/BMG, saying the showdown was forced on Delta by her the US headquarters of the music company. Lea Goodrem took over as manager last March after Delta sacked industry veteran Glenn Wheatley. Copyright © 2005 AAP
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:fby8e.1709$oa7.23833@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15000737%255E > 953,00.html > Ben English > 18apr05 > something's > going on in Delta Goodrem's world but no one is quite sure what. > heart-throb Brian McFadden, of the former boy band Westlife. > proposed three weeks ago and had taken Goodrem to Ireland to meet his > family. > McFadden has divorced his wife, Kerry Katona, formerly of the all-girl > trio > Atomic Kitten. > Can someone put me straight on this one please... I've heard that, under Irish laws, it takes up to 5 years to be divorced. Is that correct? If so, Goodrem and McFadden will have a jolly long wait before they can waltz down the aisle... Victoria
  • http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15000737%255E 953,00.html Are Delta and Brian playing for keeps? Ben English 18apr05 LIKE the track Miscommunication on her Mistaken Identity album, something's going on in Delta Goodrem's world but no one is quite sure what. A report out of Britain yesterday said the pop singer was to wed Irish heart-throb Brian McFadden, of the former boy band Westlife. The News of the World newspaper quoted a family friend as saying McFadden proposed three weeks ago and had taken Goodrem to Ireland to meet his family. However Goodrem's mother Lea Goodrem has denied reports of the engagement. Ms Goodrem insisted the celebrity couple had no marriage plans. What is known for sure is that there definitely won't be a marriage until McFadden has divorced his wife, Kerry Katona, formerly of the all-girl trio Atomic Kitten. A friend of McFadden has reportedly said McFadden was cautious about the divorce. He said Goodrem and McFadden were "very happy, but the whole thing has been kept quiet because Brian's divorce hasn't gone through". "Brian and Kerry have only just got back on speaking terms, and he doesn't want to rock the boat because they're in discussion about their two daughters," the friend said. Goodrem met the Irish singer in mid-2004 when they recorded a duet Almost Here - which last month soared to No. 3 on the Australian charts - in Britain. At the time Goodrem was still dating tennis player Mark Philippoussis. McFadden broke up with Katona in September and launched divorce proceedings the following month amid mounting speculation of a relationship with Goodrem. After months of denying a romance, the pair confirmed they were an item just before Christmas. Friends said McFadden, 25, called his wife on Christmas Eve and declared: "I'm in love with Delta." He regularly sees the pair's daughters, Molly, 3, and Lily Sue, 2, who live with Katona at her home in Warrington, Cheshire, but insiders have said he was anxious to marry the 20-year-old Australian singer. "Delta's totally different to Kerry," said a friend. "She's quiet and sophisticated. She's totally blown him away. "At first his parents were concerned that he was rushing into things but they know he knows his own mind and are glad to see him so happy." It is understood Goodrem and McFadden met Katona and her new man Dave Cunningham at a party in Ireland but friends of Katona say news of a wedding plan will come as a shock. "She'll go ballistic," one said, "but they both know they'll have to get on for the sake of the kids."
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Aussie-battler/2005/03/13/1110649050738 .html Aussie battler March 14, 2005 Axed and ridiculed in its first year, Neighbours has gone on to become a national institution. Michael Idato celebrates its 20th birthday. Launched by the Seven Network on March 18, 1985, Neighbours struggled for four months before a quiet, ignominious cancellation. In an extraordinary move, Channel Ten bought the show, relaunching it to an indifferent audience and sceptical critics. But not only did Neighbours survive to tell the tale, this week it celebrates its 20th year on air. "Everything has to line up in the universe to get any TV show made, let alone be successful," says executive producer Ric Pellizzeri. "For that to happen twice, it is just extraordinary and when you're fighting those odds it shouldn't surprise us that it's still here 20 years later." At 4675 episodes (the 4676th airs tonight), it has become the longest-running primetime soap in Australia, and the second-longest running in the world, behind Britain's Coronation Street. It has been sold to 57 countries and while America has proven a nut too tough to crack, the show's success in Britain is dizzying. The story really begins not in 1985, but five years earlier when Seven commissioned two drama pilots. The first, A Special Place, told the story of an elderly woman who looked after street kids. The second, People Like Us, was about five families living on the one street. Neither materialised, but the second concept simmered on the backburner and resurfaced several years later. Conceived by Reg Watson, it was titled Neighbours and set in Erinsborough - a fictional leafy outer-Melbourne suburb. Pin Oak Court in Melbourne's Vermont South was chosen for the exteriors and rechristened Ramsay Street. Although no one knew it at the time, a TV hit was born. The original characters included plumber Max Ramsay (Francis Bell), after whose family the street was named, his migrant wife Maria (Dasha Blahova) and their sons Shane (Peter O'Brien) and Danny (David Clencie). Widower Jim Robinson (Alan Dale) lived next door with his kids, Paul (Stefan Dennis), Julie (Vikki Blanche), Scott (Darius Perkins) and Lucy (Kylie Flinker), and mother-in-law Helen Daniels (Anne Haddy). Neighbours drew immediate comparison to Coronation Street, though in style and tone it borrowed more from Britain's Brookside and America's Knots Landing, both set in cul-de-sacs. The latter was the blueprint for a genre of suburban soaps that became immensely popular in the late 1980s. After four months, and cripplingly low ratings in Sydney, Neighbours was cancelled and the sun set on Ramsay Street. The production company Grundy Television, however, had discreetly pitched the series to other networks, and Ten, keen to groom a prime-time drama hit, decided better the devil it knew. Guy Pearce and Craig McLachlan. Neighbours was repackaged (and, in the case of Darius Perkins, who was replaced with Jason Donovan as Scott Robinson, recast) and the production moved to new digs at Ten's Melbourne studios in Nunawading. The race was on to turn Neighbours from ugly duckling into glittering swan. The show debuted on Ten in January 1986. By April, a tomboy called Charlene (Kylie Minogue) had moved into the neighbourhood. Her first encounter with Scott - she punched him in the face after mistaking him for a robber - gave no hint that they would become one of Australian television's iconic romances, on and off screen. The show's salvation was a marketing blitz on a scale previously unseen in Australia. Ten's director of publicity, Brian Walsh, one of the best publicity stuntmen in Australia, toured the cast in the shopping centres of every capital city, generating unprecedented frenzy on radio and in afternoon newspapers. Neighbours mania was born. Linda Walker, working on Neighbours in 1986 as a production assistant (she is now the line producer, in charge of the day-to-day production), got her first inkling of the show's popularity when normally subdued location shoots started attracting crowds. Within months hundreds had turned to thousands and she witnessed the kind of scenes normally associated with bands like the Beatles. "You can't believe the number of people who would surround buses and trucks," she says. "We were trying to get work done with all these screaming kids." Stefan Dennis (who has just returned as Paul Robinson after an absence of 12 years) says he was mystified by the show's sudden success. "It was one of those things that happened to come out of the bag, whether it was the right place at the right time or the right smiling faces, who knows?" The show's success in Britain, however, is easier to explain. Dennis believes that Neighbours, like Home and Away, offered its British audience a brighter, more colourful alternative to the traditionally grim situations of their soap opera staples, Coronation Street and EastEnders. "They are quite dour, heavy and suppressed shows, whereas Neighbours was more uplifting," he says. Neighbours' portrayal of an affluent white-bread suburban utopia doesn't sit well with everyone. "You would struggle to find an Australian suburb that is like Neighbours these days," says Andrew Mercado, author of Super Aussie Soaps. "We live in a multicultural society, and our soaps don't really reflect that." The show's one flirtation with multiculturalism, the Lim family, was not a great success. The Hong Kong migrants were in and out of the show within six weeks. Overall, however, the success of the series over two decades speaks for itself. After Donovan and Minogue left the series to pursue pop careers in Britain, Guy Pearce, Craig McLachlan, Natalie Imbruglia, Daniel MacPherson, Holly Valance and Delta Goodrem followed - though the series never quite returned to those early heights. The Nunawading site where Neighbours has been filmed for 19 of its 20 years was sold to Global Television in 1994. Neighbours is still filmed there, though the studio's heart beats a little more slowly. "It's a bit of a ghost town compared to what it was in 1985," says Dennis, sitting in the canteen, which is connected by a warren of corridors to the cavernous soundstages that once housed such iconic TV series as Carson's Law and Prisoner. At 20, Neighbours is showing its age but there's no suggestion its days are numbered. Its national audience hugs the 1 million mark, a respectable audience for an early evening drama, although less than the current darling, Seven's Home and Away. The key to its ongoing success, says actress Jackie Woodburne, who plays teacher Susan Kennedy, is tapping the show's, and the audience's, strong sense of community. "It's a soap opera, so every story is a heightened story, but at the heart of it are people who genuinely care about each other," she says. Pellizzeri agrees. "It is the need to belong, to be a part of a community, the need to know you have Neighbours, friends, and acquaintances who will support you," he says. Ten has signed the series for at least three more years, and Pellizzeri promises a year of onscreen fireworks, including a major storyline in June to mark the anniversary featuring the return of several iconic characters. "Neighbours is a relevant contemporary show," says Pellizzeri. "It's still telling stories that are relevant to you and me, to people in this country and the way they live their lives." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/People/Weathering-the-storm/2005/03/11/1110417681 712.html?oneclick=true Weathering the storm March 12, 2005 Paradise lost ... Delta Goodrem has been embroiled in controversy for 18 months. Delta Goodrem's image as a sweet ingenue and inspiring cancer sufferer has been tarnished by court disputes and claims of home-wrecking. Guy Blackman traces how things went so wrong for the star. Delta Goodrem, two years ago, was Australia's sweetheart, a pretty 18-year-old above reproach, whose battle with cancer had captured the hearts and minds of the public in Australia and Britain. Her debut album, Innocent Eyes, had become the longest-running Australian No. 1 in chart history (it's sold more than 2 million copies worldwide), pouring out hit after hit, until by year's end Goodrem had clocked up an unprecedented five top-selling singles. Since then, though, Goodrem has had 18 months of controversy. She's gone from being the most popular of our recent Neighbours exports to someone described as "the most hated woman in Britain", courtesy of her relationship with a former boy-band singer. Goodrem recently returned to Australia from Britain to begin promoting her first feature film, an adaptation of Robin Klein's much-loved adolescent novel Hating Alison Ashley. She plays the title role, an intelligent, beautiful and somewhat blank girl who attracts the enmity of class oddball Erica Yurken for seemingly being too good at everything. Her Hating Alison Ashley co-star, 20-year-old Saskia Burmeister, who plays the main role of Yurken in the Australian film, believes the original image of Goodrem still comes closest to the real person she knows. "We'd sit in our trailers and just read girlie magazines and eat lunch and have a great time," she says of the three months they spent together last year making the movie. "She had a wonderful smile and zest. She'd always give me a big hug in the morning in the make-up bus, and hold my hand as we walked down the steps, just to make sure that I was comfortable. She's an incredibly caring girl." Burmeister sees a parallel between Goodrem's slightly vapid, wide-eyed public demeanour and that of Alison Ashley, but believes there is an underlying strength of character that most people do not get to see. "On the page, Alison Ashley is innocent and she has this kind of reserved nature, and Delta gave her that," she says. "But she also gave her a strength. Alison is very strong in herself, and I think Delta has that in her countenance anyway. You have to be strong to survive in this industry." Indeed. And as the storm of rumour and scandal grows, Goodrem seems to be disappearing from view, having given no major newspaper or magazine interviews in almost a year (last November she cancelled interviews to promote her second album, Mistaken Identity). Hating Alison Ashley opens nationally next week, but Goodrem is limiting herself to only a handful of radio and TV appearances while she's in Australia, recently telling 60 Minutes: "Lately I've realised there can be a lot of nastiness, and there can be a lot of things that really hurt." Back in 2003, Goodrem's story was a simpler one, a tale of talent, determination and seemingly inevitable triumph. At 13, Goodrem sent a demo recording to the Sydney Swans in the hope that she might one day sing at one of their matches. The recording eventually made its way into the hands of Swans supporter and manager Glenn Wheatley. Wheatley, whose best-known client remains John Farnham, was gradually won over by Goodrem's tenacity. He signed her to his management company, Talentworks, in 1999 when she was just 14 years old. In 2000, his efforts led her to sign to Sony Music, and in November of the following year Goodrem's debut single - an anonymous slice of Britney-esque "tween-pop" called I Don't Care - was released. It peaked at an unremarkable No. 64 on the singles charts. But then Goodrem's prospects improved when she was offered a role on Neighbours early in 2002. Wheatley cunningly spun her character, Nina Tucker, into an aspiring songwriter, and used that TV exposure to relaunch Goodrem's musical career. Then, in October 2002, when the shy, self-doubting Tucker performed Born to Try on the show, it was to an internationally televised audience of millions. When the album Innocent Eyes came out in March 2003, it went straight to No. 1. It was still there in July (and in fact would remain there for 26 weeks, thereby beating the record held by Wheatley's other charge, Farnham, for Whispering Jack) when a strange lump in Goodrem's neck was diagnosed as Hodgkin's lymphoma, a serious but treatable form of lymphatic cancer. The singer cancelled all appearances, shelved plans to launch her album in the US and went to hospital. A huge outpouring of public sympathy followed, but at its height, while Goodrem was still undergoing painful and disorientating chemotherapy, her reputation took its first battering when, in October 2003, she announced a split with Wheatley. Goodrem apparently believed her manager was devoting too much time to her chart rival; Wheatley had spent seven months of 2003 working on Farnham's "The Last Time" tour and Goodrem was feeling neglected. Wheatley, in turn, was hurt and angered by Goodrem's departure - even more so when the singer collected seven ARIA awards later that month, barely mentioning him in her profuse "thank yous". "I was not thanked properly at the ARIAs," Wheatley said later. "That's a fact. And that didn't go unnoticed by the entire f---ing music industry. One cursory throwaway line: 'Thanks, Glenn.' Who was that? Was that a Glenn? [Or] was that the manicurist?" Then she became involved in a messy legal battle with another early supporter. A Melbourne-based recording house, Studio 52, and a associated label, Empire Records, sued Goodrem and her parents for the right to release recordings of her they had made in 1999-2000, with owners Trevor Carter and Paul Higgins claiming they had a contractual agreement that predated Goodrem's Sony deal. Wheatley had sent Goodrem to Studio 52 in 1999 to record demo material with Carter and Higgins. Together they assembled a 13-track album of disposable pop, mostly written by Carter. When no record label showed any interest, Empire then signed Goodrem to a recording contract of its own. "Wheatley effectively parked her at Studio 52," says a former recording engineer who preferred not to be named. "When she was signed to Empire, it was purely and simply a parking exercise, waiting for something better to come along - which it did with Sony. None of the stuff she did at Studio 52 has ever seen the light of day, mostly because it's all rubbish." Helen Aldridge, a Studio 52 office manager during Goodrem's time there, recalls that the singer was being pushed in a direction Aldridge believes she really didn't want to go. "They were pushing her to be the next Britney Spears, they wanted to dress her in skimpy little clothes and put her out there as a sex object, and it just wasn't Delta." Higgins and Carter claimed they took an unformed, inexperienced girl and turned her into a marketable performer, and that their contract entitled them to a percentage of the royalties from Goodrem's subsequent recordings. The case was eventually settled in mediation, with Carter and Higgins receiving an unspecified payout in return for undertaking not to release the earlier recordings. Just as that case was being settled late last year, Goodrem's relationship with tennis player Mark Philippoussis came to a sudden end. Heiress Paris Hilton mentioned to a couple of Australians - the winners of a Los Angeles shopping spree - that she was having a fling with the tennis star. The ensuing media frenzy at least provided Goodrem with the inspiration for Electric Storm, a Mistaken Identity album track. "There was a lot going on in the media about my love life, and I'd never had that before," she says on the DVD that comes with the special edition of the album. "All of a sudden it was getting me really down, and I started to feel a lot of pressure from other things that were being said, and all of a sudden I felt like, 'This is like I'm in a thunderstorm right now, this is really just crazy."' By year's end, though, Goodrem was finding solace in the arms of the 24-year-old Irish singer Brian McFadden, a former member of boy-band Westlife, and with whom Goodrem had written and recorded the duet Almost Here. But even there, she was not safe from controversy. McFadden had only recently broken up with his wife - and mother of their two children - Kerry Katona (from the British girl group Atomic Kitten) and her fans believed there may have been some crossover in their relationships, something Goodrem has strongly denied. Indeed, when McFadden and Goodrem appeared at an Irish charity concert to sing Almost Here, they were booed off stage. From the public perceptions of innocent ingenue to the blameless cancer sufferer, then on to the ruthless ingrate, the spurned lover and finally the alleged home-wrecker. It's quite a list for someone who is only 20 years old From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • x-no-archive: yes On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:21:57 +1100, "Rick in Oz" wrote: >http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=111676100&p=yyy67668x&n >=111676709 >singer in America as a younger Jennifer Lopez. I think "Tori Amos-lite" would be more accurate...
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=111676100&p=yyy67668x&n =111676709 Goodrem to be launched in US as 'younger Lopez' 07/03/2005 - 14:51:56 Delta Goodrem's record label Sony Music is planning to launch the Australian singer in America as a younger Jennifer Lopez. The company hopes to include a couple of new R&B and dance songs especially recorded for her first US album. The 20-year-old singer-actress is also having "intensive dancing training" before her launch in America. The album will be a mix of her two European and Australian releases 'Mistaken Identity' and 'Innocent Eyes', along with the new songs. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=135835106&p=y358358yz&n =135835866 Crowe to feature in Neighbours special 06/03/2005 - 16:04:10 Russell Crowe has taken a break from his multi-million dollar movie career - to star in a one-off special celebrating the 20th anniversary of Australian TV soap Neighbours. The Gladiator actor appeared in an early episode of the long-running show in the late 1980s, playing the love interest of pop babe Kylie Minogue's character Charlene Mitchell. And despite the fact his presence in Neighbours was only fleeting, Crowe agreed to feature in an upcoming TV show devoted to the show because he recognises its vital role in the development of his career. The soap also gave stars including Guy Pearce, Jason Donovan, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and Holly Valance their first taste of fame. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Rick in Oz wrote: > "Preesi" wrote in message > news:vuedne08PvrZurrfRVn-rA@comcast.com... > mentioned bit it does not look too good http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Abreast-of-Australian-music/2005/03/02/1109 > 700539703.html?oneclick=true Heres the entire article and pic (NO reg required) Abreast of Australian music March 3, 2005 http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/03/02/ozmtvawards_wideweb__430x259.jpg Hamming it up ... from left, Anna Nicole Smith, Sharon Osbourne, Carmen Electra, Kelly Osbourne and her dad Ozzy. Photo: Ben Rushton It seemed everyone was trying to keep abreast of things when American celebrities Carmen Electra, Anna-Nicole Smith and the infamous Osbourne family fronted media to promote MTV's first Australian music awards. Former Playboy playmate Smith was happy to divulge that she sports a 32DD bra size these days and Ozzy Osbourne was quick to ham it up for the cameras by giving his daughter Kelly an affectionate boob squeeze. And ex-Baywatch babe Carmen Electra promised to get a few pulses racing when she takes to the stage at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards at Sydney's Luna Park tonight. "I brought my whip. I brought my guard belt and my corset so I am ready to go," Electra, who is married to musician David Navarro, is in Australia to promote her Fit To Strip DVD series. "I thought (the awards) would be a perfect opportunity to give a sexy performance and ... get up on stage and dance because that is my true passion." Smith, who was last year escorted off the stage while presenting at the American Music Awards, will present at the awards and offered to follow Electra's lead. "Y'all want me to strip, just let me know," she said. The inaugural AVMAs are aimed at acknowledging the best in Australian and international music in a variety of viewer-voted categories. Nominated locals include Delta Goodrem, Jet, Spiderbait, Grinspoon, Pete Murray, Guy Sebastian, JWess, Kylie Minogue and Powderfinger. Winners in each category will be determined by viewer interaction via SMS, email, fax and phone. The Osbourne family - Ozzy, Sharon and kids Kelly and Jack - will host the awards with Sharon saying she was a keen fan of Australian music. "(Sydney band Thirsty Merc) are my new favourite band," she said. "I shall have to go out to watch them (perform)." When quizzed, Smith didn't have such a grasp of the local music scene. "To be honest, I am not Australian," Smith said to laughter from the media pack. "But I did come here to learn." Kelly Osbourne, who will perform at the awards, promised to be on her best behaviour. On her last trip Down Under, the singer was fined for underage drinking and used obscenities to describe Natalie Imbruglia. "We have seen each other since then and I have apologised for my rude comment," she said today. "I don't still have to generally think she's the best person in the world but I will behave myself." Other celebrity guests confirmed for tomorrow include Green Day, Simple Plan, Missy Higgins, Ja Rule, The Dissociatives, Chingy, Xzibit, Eskimo Joe, Keith Urban, Daniel Macpherson, Kelly Slater and Grinspoon. The awards will be broadcast live on the MTV pay channel and re-broadcast on the Ten Network on Friday night. They will be shown on MTV's 42 different networks around the world, giving the ceremony a potential audience of around one billion people. Grinspoon frontman Phil Jamieson said it was a daunting thought that so many people would be watching the band's performance. "It is just a good opportunity for us obviously to hopefully get our songs overseas and maybe get to play somewhere where other people who have never heard our music before will get to respond to it," he said. AAP -- preesi ~~~~~~~~~ My Websites: http://tinyurl.com/yvw45 Where I Hang Out: http://www.there.com Lets go surfing together: http://www.lluna.de/ My Pogo and AIM name: PreesiGirl (Come play with me)
  • http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4203615 Ex-Kitten Kerry Named Celebrity Mother of Year By Anita Singh, PA Showbusiness Editor Ex-Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona was today named Celebrity Mum Of The Year for the second time - six months after becoming a single parent. She last won in 2002 when she was happily married to Westlife star Brian McFadden. They split in September and Kerry now brings up daughters Molly, aged three, and two-year-old Lilly Sue on her own. "I'm over the moon to win again," Kerry said as she picked up her Quality Street Celebrity Mum Of The Year award in London. "For the first time in my life I'm truly gobsmacked. Molly and Lilly will be so proud of their mummy." Kerry, 24, admitted being a single mum was tough. "It's a big difference and it can be a little hard but they do see their daddy," she said. "The good thing with my job is I can plan it around my girls. I took five months off work and I'm just getting back into it now. "I don't think there's any secret or books that can tell you how to be a good mum. You just have to make sure your kids feel loved." Brian is now seeing Australian singer Delta Goodrem and Kerry insisted she was no longer upset by the relationship. "It doesn't bother me at all, I wish them all the best," she said. Kerry has now moved back to her home town of Warrington to be near her family, who help to look after the girls. She is now in a new relationship but refused to say much about the man in her life. "I don't want to talk about him because I will never have a public relationship again but I'm very, very happy," she said. Kerry revealed she would love to have more children. "I'm only 24 and I've got a lot of time, that's one of the good things about having kids young. "I'd love to have a little brother for Molly and Lilly." In May, Kerry will star in ITV reality show My Fair Kerry, a Faking It style programme in which she goes to Vienna and tries to pass herself off as a member of the English aristocracy. Further TV shows are in the pipeline but she said she now has her heart set on becoming an actress and hopes to star in a big romantic comedy. She appeared in Irish film Showbands last year and will soon appear in the sequel. And she said: "Acting is what I really want to do, it's what I feel most at ease doing. "I'm looking at lots of film s and I'm getting all kinds of stuff sent to me." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Abreast of Australian music March 3, 2005 It seemed everyone was trying to keep abreast of things when American celebrities Carmen Electra, Anna-Nicole Smith and the infamous Osbourne family fronted media to promote MTV's first Australian music awards. Former Playboy playmate Smith was happy to divulge that she sports a 32DD bra size these days and Ozzy Osbourne was quick to ham it up for the cameras by giving his daughter Kelly an affectionate boob squeeze. And ex-Baywatch babe Carmen Electra promised to get a few pulses racing when she takes to the stage at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards (AVMA's) at Sydney's Luna Park tonight. "I brought my whip. I brought my guard belt and my corset so I am ready to go," Electra, who is married to musician David Navarro, is in Australia to promote her Fit To Strip DVD series. "I thought (the awards) would be a perfect opportunity to give a sexy performance and ... get up on stage and dance because that is my true passion." Smith, who was last year escorted off the stage while presenting at the American Music Awards, will present at the AVMA's and offered to follow Electra's lead. "Y'all want me to strip, just let me know," she said. The inaugural AVMA's are aimed at acknowledging the best in Australian and international music in a variety of viewer-voted categories. Nominated locals include Delta Goodrem, Jet, Spiderbait, Grinspoon, Pete Murray, Guy Sebastian, JWess, Kylie Minogue and Powderfinger. Winners in each category will be determined by viewer interaction via SMS, email, fax and phone. The Osbourne family - Ozzy, Sharon and kids Kelly and Jack - will host the awards with Sharon saying she was a keen fan of Australian music. "(Sydney band Thirsty Merc) are my new favourite band," she said. "I shall have to go out to watch them (perform)." When quizzed, Smith didn't have such a grasp of the local music scene. "To be honest, I am not Australian," Smith said to laughter from the media pack. "But I did come here to learn." Kelly Osbourne, who will perform at the awards, promised to be on her best behaviour. On her last trip Down Under, the singer was fined for underage drinking and used obscenities to describe Natalie Imbruglia. "We have seen each other since then and I have apologised for my rude comment," she said today. "I don't still have to generally think she's the best person in the world but I will behave myself." Other celebrity guests confirmed for tomorrow include Green Day, Simple Plan, Missy Higgins, Ja Rule, The Dissociatives, Chingy, Xzibit, Eskimo Joe, Keith Urban, Daniel Macpherson, Kelly Slater and Grinspoon. The awards will be broadcast live on the MTV pay channel and re-broadcast on the Ten Network on Friday night. They will be shown on MTV's 42 different networks around the world, giving the ceremony a potential audience of around one billion people. Grinspoon frontman Phil Jamieson said it was a daunting thought that so many people would be watching the band's performance. "It is just a good opportunity for us obviously to hopefully get our songs overseas and maybe get to play somewhere where other people who have never heard our music before will get to respond to it," he said. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • In alt.showbiz.gossip Rick in Oz wrote: : http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12391131-29278,00.html : Goodrem's heartbreak revealed : February 27, 2005 : From: AAP : SINGER Delta Goodrem has spoken of her heartache over the betrayal of former : boyfriend, tennis player Mark Philippoussis. : A visibly distressed Goodrem told 60 Minutes she first learned of : Phillipoussis's affair with US hotel heiress Paris Hilton in a front-page : newspaper story. : The record-breaking singer, who recently fought cancer, said she broke up : with Philippoussis after reading the headlines. : "It did break my heart, of course it did," Goodrem said. : "It was a really hard time when all that came out because, again, it was : something that I don't ever put my hand up and want my personal life slashed : (sic) all over everywhere, for everyone to see." : Goodrem, 20, said she didn't want the Australian public to be troubled about : her personal life. Then why does she keep telling us about it? Fiona
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Clip-go-the-years/2005/02/25/1109180099910. html Clip go the years February 26, 2005 Dino Scatena eyes the first Countdown and beyond to trace the birth of the Australian music video. To those of us of the Countdown generation, a culture-defining event took place exactly 30 years ago this week. Literally overnight, on March 1, 1975, like a scene out of The Wizard of Oz, Australian television went colour. Suddenly, for better or worse, we could see the rainbow of satins in Skyhooks' stage costumes. Young girls across the nation felt as if they could reach through the screen and touch the near life-like tones of Daryl Braithwaite's exposed chest as he crooned: "Summer love, it's like no other love, oooh yeah ..." The ABC first aired Countdown in late 1974, but it really wasn't until those early months of 1975 that the show exploded in popularity. A by-product of its success was the beginnings of a local music video industry. The launch of MTV in the United States was still six years away. A month after colour arrived, Paul Drane, a young producer working in the ABC promotions department in Melbourne, was given the job of directing Countdown. By then the original creative team behind the show - Ian "Molly" Meldrum and ABC producers Michael Shrimpton and Rob Weekes - had started experimenting with their own pre-recorded music video sequences to break up the program's live-cum-mimed, studio action. Some of the earliest examples of such purpose-made music clips included Horror Movie for Skyhooks and Yesterday's Hero for John Paul Young. "That was the beginning of the idea of being able to do these special sorts of things," Drane recalls. "We couldn't do it every week because it would mean a film shoot, therefore it had an expenditure. We had a very limited budget so I basically had to save up over a period of a few weeks to be able to spend money outside our allocated engineering budget for the live studio shoots. So probably about once a month, once every six weeks, we would do one. The budget for such clips would rarely exceed $100." Some of Drane's earliest videos stand tall as milestones in Australian pop music, most notably AC/DC's It's a Long Way to the Top (with the band performing on the back of a truck cruising down Melbourne's Swanston Street) and the comically explosive Jailbreak. "The thing is you could do something like that back then," he says of the Long Way to the Top clip. "You could organise it with the city council and it could be done very quickly. We didn't have to shut the streets down or stop traffic. These days you'd have the street shut down for a day. It would be almost impossible. "With something like Jailbreak, we put more time into that. It was very much a production film clip. It was planned with the explosions. We had to build a set to blow up. We had to get special-effects people in, Bon [Scott] getting shot in the back and all that. They started to evolve gradually into bigger productions." Drane stayed with Countdown until the end of 1976, before going off to become an independent film-clip maker. By that stage, every pop act in the world was producing video clips to accompany the release of singles. Record companies were funding such productions. The music video had made the transition from a television production gimmick into a record company marketing device. While Countdown undoubtedly made the music-video format famous in Australia, it obviously didn't invent the art form. British and US artists had been toying with conceptual and performance-based video clips to accompany their studio recordings for decades. There are also several early Australian examples dating from the mid-'60s, such as the Loved Ones' clip for their hit single The Loved One and, a bit later, Daddy Cool's silly little film about doing the Eagle Rock. Countdown can't even lay claim to being the first Australian music program to produce in-house music videos. That kudos goes to its main competitor, Channel Seven's Sounds Unlimited, created by former radio announcer Graham Webb. Donnie Sutherland came in as the host on the very same Saturday morning that television turned colour. Previously, from February 1974, Webb had fronted a Sydney-only, Saturday morning video-clip program - possibly the first of its type in the world - called the Sat Today Show. Webb had come up with the idea of a television show made up entirely of video clips while travelling through Europe. Over there, new bands such as Abba were producing short videos specifically for export. When Webb's show first went to air, his entire video clip library consisted of 25 songs. "I couldn't get clips for the songs that I wanted on air," Webb says. "One of them in particular was Everybody's Talkin by Harry Nilsson. Of course, there was nothing around for it." Webb asked a young chap who was working in Seven's newsroom to go out and shoot some random footage to accompany the song. That young man just happened to be Russell Mulcahy, the director who would go on to redefine the limits of the video-clip medium for the MTV generation. "He had a camera and he loved doing filming," Webb says. "And I said, 'Will you go out and film some background for this song?' Which he did. He got $85 for his job." For his part, Mulcahy didn't need any more encouragement. He soon gave up work at the station to become a full-time video-clip maker. "The industry started off with me and a friend, who was a cameraman, in a Holden with a tripod and a 16-millimetre camera, just driving around and doing these crazy videos for no money," Mulcahy says. "I think the first rock videos I did was with a company called Wizard Records, for bands like Hush and Marcia Hines. And then I went on and did AC/DC etc. We'd be in Paddington Town Hall with Hush and drag queens dancing around them. There were no rules." By 1976, Mulcahy was in London making clips for English acts. Within a couple of years, record companies were flying him around the world to produce music videos for all manner of pop artists. On August 1, 1981, one of Mulcahy's clips, the Buggles' Video Killed The Radio Star, was used to launch MTV in the US. Mulcahy spent the '80s producing big-budget videos for many of the world's biggest pop stars, from the Rolling Stones to Elton John, Spandau Ballet to Ultravox. He had creative licence to be as absurd and abstract as he wanted. Undoubtedly, his most audacious work came with the many clips he produced for Duran Duran. Back in Australia during that time, other young directors, such as Alex Proyas and Richard Lowenstein, were also becoming internationally renowned video-clip experts. All three men are now full-time feature film directors. Mulcahy, for example, hasn't made a video-clip since 1994. Even with all the money in the world, the medium, as a creative outlet, has its limitations. Since the early days of Countdown and Sounds Unlimited, music-video clips and music video clip programs have become as ubiquitous a part of broadcasting as news bulletins. Aside from what appears on commercial television, there are now six 24-hour-a-day music stations available through pay TV. For a long time, it's been difficult to differentiate music video clips from television adverts. They are, after all, one and the same. In Australia, the budgets granted by record companies for music clips are a fraction of what is spent on artists overseas. For generations of local film-clip makers, ingenuity rather than money has always been the key to their craft. And, every now and again, the results are world class. Michael Spiccia, a Sydney director, plans to head to the US in search of bigger budgets. In recent years, the 27-year-old - who also makes television commercials - has produced some epic clips, by local standards. Most recently he filmed a $160,000 video for the Delta Goodrem single Mistaken Identity. "Your average video budget in Australia is between $30,000 and $50,000," Spiccia says. "The ironic thing is that in the advertising world $160,000 is piddly, it's nothing. In America and European countries, there still seems to be a respectable bracket for music video budgets for the top-end pop stars. Someone like Britney [Spears] wouldn't be looking at any less than $1 million. Unfortunately, we never see that kind of light down here." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • In alt.showbiz.gossip Rick in Oz wrote: : http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12391131-29278,00.html : Goodrem's heartbreak revealed : February 27, 2005 : From: AAP : SINGER Delta Goodrem has spoken of her heartache over the betrayal of former : boyfriend, tennis player Mark Philippoussis. : A visibly distressed Goodrem told 60 Minutes she first learned of : Phillipoussis's affair with US hotel heiress Paris Hilton in a front-page : newspaper story. : The record-breaking singer, who recently fought cancer, said she broke up : with Philippoussis after reading the headlines. : "It did break my heart, of course it did," Goodrem said. : "It was a really hard time when all that came out because, again, it was : something that I don't ever put my hand up and want my personal life slashed : (sic) all over everywhere, for everyone to see." : Goodrem, 20, said she didn't want the Australian public to be troubled about : her personal life. Then why does she keep telling us about it? Fiona
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  • (July 2003) Diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of cancer and has begun treatment.
  • Her debut single, "I Don't Care", peaked at No. 64 on the ARIA charts in December 2001.
  • Parents are Denis and Lea Goodrem.
  • Has one younger brother, Trent.
  • Announced that she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a treatable form of cancer. Her career will be put on hold while she recieves treatment. (July 11th, 2003)
  • Her third single, entitled Innocent Eyes, debuted in the ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) charts at #2 on June 16th 2003.
  • Has had a number one single in Australia with "Born to Try", and her second single "Lost Without You" also debuted in the Australian charts at number one.
  • She had a top ten UK hit with 'Born to try.'
  • Manager is Glenn Wheatley, most famous for managing John Farnham throughout his career.
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