Word: australian
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...Here the Australian director could be describing his own uncanny ability to master the minutiae of moviemaking while never losing sight of the bigger picture-even if it's a picture that no one's envisaged before. With unerring prescience, Miller has zoomed Australian cinema out of a costume-drama past and into a cutting-edge future (Mad Max); beamed through the freckles and frizzy hair of a gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise...
...less sanguine when it comes to the local film industry and its ability to send stories to the world. As just one example, he cites the late adventurer Steve Irwin, who recorded his elephant-seal role in Happy Feet just months before his September death this year. "Irwin was Australian not only in his persona but in his actions," Miller says. "And that's gone from us now. I think that applies a lot to our culture ? We're exporting our talent but not our culture." While he might speak with an American accent, Miller's Mumble might...
Shane Warne retires this week. this may mean nothing to you, but it means a lot to me. Warne is an Australian cricketer, one of the greatest in the history of the game and a revolutionary in his own way. In cricket there are two types of bowlers: fast and slow. The former tend to blast batsmen out with pace, the latter to bamboozle them, spinning the ball off the pitch so as to deceive and induce batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends...
...then along came Warne. From his international debut in 1992, the stocky blond-haired Australian almost single-handedly made spin-bowling fashionable again, reviving the arcane and difficult craft of leg spin-bowling (in which spin is imparted mostly through a snap of the wrist rather than via the fingers) and proving that slow bowlers can be just as aggressive and flamboyant as the fast men. In the years after Warne hit the big time, kids in backyards across the cricketing world stopped trying to fling the ball as fast as they could and began learning the subtler...
...message that has resonated throughout history, from Proverbs 23:7 ("As a man thinks in his heart, so is he") to Norman Vincent Peale's 1952 self-help bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking. The Secret - created by Australian reality show producer Rhonda Byrne - is so hokey at times you have to roll your eyes. But to a lot of enthusiasts, it makes perfect sense...