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Daisy Walkabout brought an accounting to the meeting. "That's very well and good, but what I am wanting to know - is it really going to happen?". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Tales of jealousy, a thousand years apart Jun 22, 2007
Played by the veteran Aborigine actor David Gulpilil , who was the star of Nicolas Roeg's "Walkabout " and Philip Noyce's "Rabbit-Proof Fence ," an unseen Storyteller draws us back a thousand years to his ancestors, a group of Yolngu men stripping trees of their bark to build canoes for the swamp-bound goose-egg-hunting season. One of the men, a goose-egg rookie named Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil , David's son), fancies the third and youngest of the three women married to his much older brother,... (Boston Globe)
DVD watch: What was that masked movie? Jun 19, 2007
Masque was shot by future director Nicolas Roeg, later of Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth. New Tuesday. (USA Today -- Life)
CASE leaves investigation of cable TV hikes to Competition Commission Jun 18, 2007
CASE President Yeo Guat Kwang was speaking to reporters during the Committee Against GST Profiteering walkabout in Hougang on Sunday. He said CASE was not against price increases, but companies must justify such increases. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Silver Surfer cannot save this not-so-Fantastic Four Jun 15, 2007
An English-speaking narrator (David Gulpilil, of Walkabout fame) introduces it in wry style, explaining that what will follow is complicated. He's not wrong. (Scotsman)
Infotainment Jun 14, 2007
President Bush may have had his watch stolen during a walkabout in Albania. The best protected man in the world was wearing his watch when he began shaking hands with enthusiastic well-wishers. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Bush 'has watch stolen off wrist' during Albanian walkabout... Jun 13, 2007
The Princess Royal slipped and fell while on a walkabout in front of crowds in Guernsey. Tocky the parrot had developed a nasty cough. (The Drudge Report)
Hired or fired? Who will win this series of The Apprentice? Jun 13, 2007
Watch video of George Bush's wristwatch disappearing as he goes on walkabout in Albania. Tocky the parrot had developed a nasty cough. (Daily Mail)
Prison cell interview... Jun 12, 2007
Yesterday, the Princess Royal slipped and fell while on a walkabout in front of crowds in Guernsey. Banaz Mahmod entered an arranged marriage at the age of 16 and was expected to fulfil the role of subservient wife and mother. (The Drudge Report)
The weekend's TV Jun 5, 2007
"Do you enjoy doing it?" he asks a pargeter in Lavenham, like a grown-up talking to a child, or the Queen on walkabout. But that's OK, because he is TV royalty, and this is about the buildings and the past, and he's very good at that. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Full coverage Jun 4, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald - News, Business News, Breaking News, World News, News and Media. Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Mauresmo nothing to write home about as Serena goes walkabout Jun 2, 2007
au/news/tennis/mauresmo-nothing-to-write-home-about-as-serena-goes-walkabout/2007/06/01/1180205509095. htmlsmh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
LUSH SETTING FOR CANOE-DLING, CRIME Jun 1, 2007
Trivia: The narrator is Jamie Gulpilil, who played the Aborigine boy in Nicolas Roeg's 1970 gem "Walkabout.". TEN CANOESIn Yolngu and English, with subtitles. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
It ain't over 'til the fat monkey sings Jun 1, 2007
Elephant and Castle is an ambitious attempt to fuse electronics, acoustic classical instruments, installation art, and an audience on walkabout. But no one's quite sure what it's going to be like. (Guardian Unlimited)
Portrait of a disappearing culture May 31, 2007
"I was doing a film with David Gulpilil called Tracker in 2000," says the Dutch-born Australian filmmaker, referring to the Aboriginal performer whose film career began with Nicolas Roeg's 1971 work, Walkabout. "I couldn't understand a bloody word he said, but he was very nice, inviting me to his home [in Ramingining]. It was like another planet. "David brought me into his village and told me to sit in one spot, not to move," de Heer continues, speaking on the phone from Adelaide, South... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ship's doctor dies after eating blowfish May 29, 2007
A traveller eats a meal of blowfish in Japan. May 29, 2007 - 11:43AM. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
Wild weather hits city May 29, 2007
Sheets are ripped off a city building. Photo: Reader submitted. (The Age, Australia)
Baby in hospital after cot catches fire May 29, 2007
Reko RennieMay 29, 2007 - 3:56PM. A one-year-old girl has been airlifted to the Royal Children's Hospital with severe burns to her body after a fire at a house in Yallourn North in the state's south-east earlier today. (The Age)
Investors stranded by property group collapse May 29, 2007
Colin KrugerMay 29, 2007 - 10:23AM. Administrators have been appointed to the Australian Capital Reserve (ACR) Group, with $330 million invested by 7,000 investors now in peril. (The Age, Australia -- Business)
ALP landslide? Pigs might fly May 28, 2007 Tough challengeIrish PM seeks third term after bruising election campaign May 24, 2007 Virginia greets the queen May 4, 2007 Summer movie preview Apr 29, 2007 Been and gone Apr 4, 2007 Abroad Bean - comedy star bumbles into holiday movie Mar 27, 2007 Chemical Legacy Mar 23, 2007 techinvestor Mar 11, 2007 A demanding kind of horse play Feb 26, 2007 Mobile phone technology in Australia turns 20 Feb 24, 2007 Ciao, bella! Tom keeps low profile in Milan Feb 24, 2007 They're pretty and they're pretty funny Feb 20, 2007 Scorsese's dear Departed Feb 19, 2007 I grabbed machete in fear: Gulpilil Jan 9, 2007
Pigs might fly - National - theage. May 28, 2007 - 8:01PM. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
New rides, attractions herald summer's approach at local theme parks May 25, 2007
DISNEYLAND PARK Harbor Boulevard at Disney Way, Anaheim; Tom Sawyer Island is scheduled to reopen in late May with the new "Pirates of the Caribbean"-themed "Pirates Lair"; the long-closed "Submarine Voyage" reopens June 11 with an all-new "Finding Nemo" theme; "Year of a Million Dreams," where 1 million prizes will be given away to Disney park visitors in 2007, is under way featuring enhanced character encounters at "Princess Fantasy Faire" and "Jedi Training Academy"; the "Pirates of the... (North County Times)
At one point he breaks into a jog to overtake the reporters and camera crews who have joined him on his Dublin walkabout. Bertie Ahern appears at home on the campaign trail. (BBC News -- Europe)
The mother of three traveled an hour and a half with her boyfriend to see the queen after winning one of 54 lottery spots to line the path where the queen did her walkabout Thursday. About 30,000 people entered the lottery. (FOX59, IN)
Aborigine acting icon David Gulpilil ("Walkabout ," "Rabbit-Proof Fence ") plays a tribal elder narrating a story within a story, while nonprofessionals make up the rest of the cast. "You Kill Me " A comic thriller from John Dahl ("The Last Seduction ") about an alcoholic hit man (Ben Kingsley ) who falls for a woman (T a Leoni ) he meets in San Francisco. (Boston Globe)
Billy Walkabout made his name in a later conflict ... Walkabout loaded injured comrades on to rescue helicopters and applied first aid to the wounded, saving several lives. (BBC News -- UK)
Atkinson arrived in Leicester Square in Mr Bean's trademark lime green Mini and went on a walkabout to meet the crowd. He was joined by Hollywood star Willem Dafoe who plays a bullying film director in the comedy. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
"The U.S. government has made a gesture toward beginning to clean up its former military bases, working with the Vietnamese." Ironically, just as this piece was being written, there was an obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer for a Connecticut man named Billy Walkabout ... Mr. Walkabout was only 57. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
2h ago Billy Walkabout, a native Cherokee whose actions in Vietnam made him among most decorated soldiers of the war, died March 7 in Connecticut. FIND MORE STORIES IN. (USA Today -- Money)
I was very questioning as to whether I should do it because I'd just done Walkabout, which is about the loss of innocence, and I was going to move on. But you go between being young and older at that age, and it seemed the right thing to do. (Telegraph.co.uk)
The Attache, a briefcase-sized unit which can be either portable, vehicle-mounted, or both A walkie-talkie-sized device called Walkabout. Telecom says that the Walkabout "represents the limits of current technology and should be capable of performing effectively at street level throughout the Sydney Central Business District" ... The most expensive unit is the Walkabout Combination, which can be used in a vehicle drawing power from the vehicle battery, or on the move, powered by its own battery,... (Sydney Morning Herald)
No. 12 wore a pair of white sneakers for his walkabout in Gay Paree, which even we know is a BIG fashion faux pas on the continent. It must be love if his new inamorata forgot to mention that little fact. (Boston Herald)
The movies, each showing on a Thursday at 7 p.m., are: Rear Window (March 1), Alfred Hitchcock's famed suspense drama about a photographer (James Stewart) voyeurizing a murder scenario from a New York apartment; Blow-up (March 8), Michelangelo Antonioni's conceptual vision of a photographer (David Hemmings) who thinks he snapped a London park homicide; Walkabout (March 29), Nicolas Roeg's Australian movie about Aborigines with a plot akin to images in the MOPA show; and The Day I Became a Woman... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Screenwriter Donald Cammell co-directed the movie with Nicolas Roeg, who left the re-editing job to Cammell because he had to go to Australia to shoot Walkabout. Cammell filled the movie with frenetic cuts. (Globe and Mail)
Gulpilil, who lives for much of the time in Arnhem Land, began his movie career in the 1971 movie Walkabout. His career has undergone a revival in recent years, and he is the narrator of the award-winning Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes, the first major feature acted entirely in an Aboriginal language. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
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