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...memory as clear to Colin Croft as any of the 100-plus wickets he took as a West Indian speedster is a dressing-room visit in 1982 by the Australian captain. His side having just lost a Test match in Adelaide, the regal Greg Chappell strolled in with a message for his conquerors. "Gentleman, I'm going to be honest: you're better than us," Croft remembers Chappell saying. "But we are going to put plans in place so that, within 15 years, we're going to be not only world champions but world champions continuously." Though he'd later...
...sense within the squad that the thrill of beating Australia last year will sustain them for the rest of their lives and that it would be greedy to hope to do it twice, "then it could be ugly for them." From the other side of the world, Colin Croft expects to see a thrashing. Galvanized by defeat, he says, "Australia are going to beat the English 4-nil, I figure. England are not even going to go close to winning a Test match...
...into movie gods. So when Daniel Craig was offered the role of 007 in Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond film, he was torn. Should he decline and keep building a steady career of small parts in big films (such as Angelina Jolie's lover-rival in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a Mossad agent in Munich) and big parts in small films (Layer Cake's nice-guy coke dealer, Ted Hughes in Sylvia)? Or should he accept and become forever the man who was Bond? He turned to Pierce Brosnan, four-time veteran of Her Majesty's Secret Service...
...freighted off to Paris for installation. With 2,500 sq m of public art, "every square millimeter involves a number of really intense processes that have to be perfect," says Lonergan. Just as fine have been the cultural calibrations of the project. In working with the artists, Perkins and Croft have had to traverse the country by plane, 4WD and e-mail, signing off on designs while negotiating sensitive copyright issues with Paris; in one case, an artist's contract couldn't be signed until the floodwaters had receded from her remote community. "It's not only a cross-nation...
...Indeed, squashing the usual perceptions about Aboriginal art has been the life mission of Croft and Perkins, senior curators at the NGA and Art Gallery of N.S.W. respectively. As founding members of Sydney's Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987, they mixed art with activism (Perkins is the daughter of famed campaigner Charles; Croft is a widely exhibited artist), pushing the envelope with indigenous shows. For the exhibition "fluent" at the 1997 Venice Biennale, they positioned Aboriginal work at the forefront of contemporary art, mixing Murray River eel traps with Western Desert landscapes and more urban visions. "What was achieved...