Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...archetypical American facade, enter Eric Roberts ex-marine, In Search of Excellence Harvard MBA yuppie (enough stereotypes yet?), whose dissertation was on "Money as God's Muscle." As Coca-Cola's troubleshooter, he's been assigned to the untroubled Australian Division to find out what the trouble is, then take care of it. "Don't get scared" and "don't get angry" Coke warns the Australian Headquarters. The caveat seems an understatement when we see the incredible yet believable religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn...
Ever since Media Magnate Rupert Murdoch bought half of 20th Century-Fox films in March, cinema buffs have been predicting a sequel. Last week came Murdoch Part II. The Australian-born owner of the New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times and scores of other newspapers, magazines and TV stations announced he was buying the other half of Fox from Denver Oilman Marvin Davis. Price: $325 million cash plus real estate in Los Angeles, Pebble Beach, Calif., and Aspen, Colo...
EXPECTING. Olivia Newton-John, 37, candy-voiced Australian singer (Let's Get Physical, Soul Kiss) and actress (Grease, Two of a Kind), and her husband Actor Matt Lattanzi, 26; their first child; in February...
...coup attempt, an estimated 500 rebels found themselves squaring off against more than 1,000 loyalist troops near First Division headquarters, which also houses the army's main radio station. Without warning, rebel tanks and machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman Neil Davis, an Australian, and William Latch, his American sound man, who were standing in front of the building. The moment was captured for American television by Davis' still rolling camera: in a macabre example of cinema verite, the veteran journalist had filmed his own death. By early afternoon the loyalists had regained control...
NATURALIZED. Rupert Murdoch, 54, Australian-born press baron whose media holdings include more than 80 publications on three continents, including the Times of London, the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times; as a U.S. citizen, in a ten-minute ceremony in New York City. In order to complete a deal that he made last spring to acquire six Metromedia TV stations, Murdoch must be a U.S. citizen; fcc regulations bar foreigners from owning more than 20% of a broadcast license...