Word: creeks
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...East Kimberley, as in many remote places, Australian Rules is a bonding force. At Halls Creek, Centennial Oval bursts into life on winter Saturdays, as footy fans from outlying areas make the trip to town. "Aboriginal people live, breathe and sleep football," says Warren Greatorex, an assistant coach and player with the Halls Creek Hawks. "Football keeps small communities going." The Hawks play in a bush league of seven, with three teams from Kununurra and one each from Wyndham, Timber Creek (N.T.) and Warmun. In these parts, says Derby-born Greatorex, indigenous players are athletic and naturally skilful. In spite...
...Shane's got a lot of potential as a player and a person," says Greatorex. After two years in Halls Creek, the constable first class sees among the town's youth little ambition to succeed-or desire to leave. In the dying light, Clinton Cox's small posse of junior Auskick players are making way on the field for the senior squad. "So much talent goes to waste around here," Greatorex says. "I see it every day. The ones that make it are kids who have strong family support from an early...
Seduced and Abandoned Pietro Germi Germi's lunar eclipse of a dark comedy, which followed his Divorce Italian Style, suggests Preston Sturges run riot in Sicily. In this lunatic 1964 retooling of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (unwanted pregnancy, frantic attempt to get the girl married, small town in an uproar), Botticelli-beautiful Stefania Sandrelli is Agnese, a lamb led to the slaughter of her ideals by a father, a family and a society that values honor (status) over honesty. Germi's tireless cinematic inventiveness matches his furious pace in a magnificent satire that leaves the viewer exhausted, angry...
...paparazzi have snapped you at a karaoke bar. The producers of LINDSAY LOHAN's film, Georgia Rule, have accused the young actress of malingering. In a letter delivered to Lohan's L.A. hotel and posted on the Smoking Gun website (gee, wonder who leaked that?), the CEO of Morgan Creek Productions said she was "a spoiled child" and "ongoing heavy partying is the real reason for your so called 'exhaustion.'" He threatened to seek damages from Lohan, 20, who plays an unruly teen in the drama opposite Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. Lohan's publicists, perhaps genuinely exhausted...
...have paid particular attention to the country's bridges, knocking out over 80% of them, according to the Lebanese government - even some comically small ones. The bridge at Gharife Bayzoun in the Chouf Mountains, for example, couldn't have had more than a 15 ft. span over a dry creek. But when the Israelis took it out two days ago, they also cut a water main that fed some 45 villages in the Kharrob district. "They have no way of getting water, from here all the way to the eastern part of Sidon," said Ghaleb Abu Howdan, 34, a food...