Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed they are. As Paramount prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 1987, the studio's The Golden Child, starring Comedian Eddie Murphy, is the hot Christmas movie, raking in $11.6 million in its first weekend at 1,667 theaters -- despite mixed reviews. Paramount's astonishing Australian import, "Crocodile" Dundee, has just finished its twelfth week as a top grosser, having earned more than $103 million at 1,495 theaters. Headed in the same direction is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which has earned $47.5 million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount...
...does a director of Peter Weir's caliber make a miscalculation of this magnitude? One suspects that this passionate and meticulous Australian filmmaker was carried away by his own obsession. From his first success (Picnic at Hanging Rock) to his last (Witness), Weir has been at pains to dislocate rationality, placing representatives of Western "civilization" in primitive contexts, where their normal habits of mind and behavior can only mislead them. Doubtless he saw Allie as a bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie...
...have to keep structures gender neutral or keep differences only at an ideal level," said Genevieve Lloyd, senior lecturer on Philosophy at the Australian National University...
...custody battle. After an investigation the charges were dropped. The keynote address was delivered by a former foreign correspondent, Ernest Coates, who had been charged with aggravated sexual assault of his son and daughter but was acquitted. Introduced as someone who "sees his children only in his dreams," the Australian-born Coates claimed he was the victim of state-paid psychologists, young lawyers on the make and a troubled wife...
...accents of affection change from country to country. In Britain and Australia, for instance, exuberant fans often throw them bouquets of flowers; at the end of one Australian performance, Jayne Torvill spent 20 minutes crisscrossing the ice to retrieve a garden of tributes. Americans tend to show their approval through body motion as well. So it was earlier this month, as Torvill, 29, and her skating partner, Christopher Dean, 28, ended the first show of their current U.S. tour, when some 10,000 people in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium stood, cheered and clapped until their hands were chafed. "Well, kids...