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...classic tragedies. And then there was the accidental death earlier this year of the actor Heath Ledger. "You have this beautiful, talented being dropped into another world - Hollywood - where everyone wants to get in with you," says Bourne. "Would he have died if he'd stayed in Australia, I wonder, or was he a victim of modern celebrity...
...from investors, and Arts Council England put in a further $780,000. Scissorhands played British venues until the autumn of 2006, then took off for Korea, Japan and the U.S., where it toured until spring 2007. In May of this year, a revived version of the show traveled to Australia, launching a national tour at the Sydney Opera House. The company returns to Britain for Christmas 2008, then begins a European tour in the spring of 2009. By the end of that tour the piece will have racked up almost 500 performances, and requests to stage it continue to pour...
...road to redemption. In their first game of the medal round in Olympic basketball - where it's win or go home - the NBA stars blew open a competitive game at the start of the second half and coasted to a 116-85 win against Australia. And for the first time in these games, Kobe Bryant - by far the biggest fan favorite among foreign athletes in these Games - had a break out game. He shot beautifully from long range (four of seven from three point land) and threw in a mix of acrobatic drives to the hoop to lead Team...
...Australia's coach, the American born Brian Goorjian, agreed that the depth, intensity and athleticism the U.S. has brought to Beijing makes them tough to prepare for - let alone defeat. "When I sat up last night thinking about the game, I thought, can you play a team at that level for 40 minutes? They are playing great together, and everyone's contributing. They're going to be very, very tough to beat...
...hand in hand with progress. The delegation he selected for the festival - from Freshwater, a women's a capella group who seek to reclaim languages through song, to Doonooch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation group using traditional dance - reflect his theme of "Welcoming the New Day." "In Indigenous Australia there's a whole lot of contemporary manifestations of culture that we want to look at," Enoch says. "It's not just about cultural maintenance but about cultural evolution...