Teen Depression Worsened by Marijuana, Government Says May 11, 2008
Al also enjoyed LSD daily for many many of my walkabout years. I Graduated Magna Cum Laude in 3 1/2 years in Engineering. (U.S. News & World Report)
Mix a little doom with the gloom... Apr 13, 2008
Famously unavailable to journalists, Gibbons apologises sweetly for her band's technical hitches, and ends the set with a walkabout in the photographer's pit, shaking hands with the front row. The band's flight from hip hop can't be overstated, given Barrow's b-boy background. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Grandma's New Gig Apr 12, 2008
Those who remember her as the teen in "Walkabout" will be curious to see how she looks. (Pretty darn good. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
In brief: Matters of Faith Apr 6, 2008
The sermon is "A Walkabout With Jesus." Adult education at 9:30 a.m. will discuss "The Rapture Exposed." Listen to "Grace Notes" Web radio at 8 p.m. Mondays with Pastor Dan at. BLOOD-PRESSURE SCREENINGS: The parish nurses at St. John United Methodist Church, 1801 O'Malley Road, will conduct blood pressure screenings from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday. (Anchorage Daily News)
As Lowell prepares to host a major film shoot, locals line up to audition for parts as extras Apr 3, 2008
Afterward, she said, they did a walkabout to assess the scenery for the movie, a first for comic Ricky Gervais as writer and director. Then, about a month ago, Gervais dropped in to give the city the final once-over, she said, and he later posted a photo on his blog of himself reading the local newspaper, the Lowell Sun. (Boston Globe)
Lingam video guy Apr 1, 2008
One time they asked me to go on a walkabout at a pasar pagi (morning market) ... One time they sent us to a surau to do a walkabout after Friday prayers ... Then ntv7 called us and said, We heard you guys are going for a surau walkabout. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
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Morgan s book turned out to be fiction, something she admitted after Australian aborigines announced that despite her claims, Morgan never spent time with them or did a walkabout. I am not sure if it was ever decided if Carcaterra s book (which was made into a movie) was fiction, but Carcaterra did go on to become a producer of the TV show Law and Order. (International Herald Tribune)
A culture caught in clay Mar 5, 2008
He points out that many of the potteries that produced this range of work were run by migrants from Europe whose only reference to indigenous culture was magazines such as Walkabout and even the cartoons of Eric Jolliffe, as featured in Australasian Post. Best remembered for his racy Witchetty's Tribe strips, Jolliffe was also a gifted portraitist and several of his pencil sketches of Aboriginal figures later appeared, probably without his knowledge, as transfers on plates and ashtrays. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Max Raab, clothier and producer of "A Clockwork Orange;" Larry Norman, pioneer of Christian rock Feb 27, 2008
That same year, Raab was executive producer of "Walkabout," about two children lost in the Australian outback who learn to survive after meeting an Aborigine. Among Raab's other film production credits are "End of the Road" (1970); "Hex" (1973); and "Moment to Moment" (1975). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Glen Ellen news Feb 26, 2008
To those readers who may be frustrated with confusion now, allow me now to clarify: Last week I mentioned my walkabouts, noting that it was a term I coined ... Henry Berg, on the other hand, objected to my use because it is the traditional aboriginal name for youthful vision quests as portrayed in the marvelous 1971 Australian film, "Walkabout.". (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Mortensen wears his heart on his sleeve Feb 23, 2008
He also went for a walkabout in the Urals. "We kind of worried he'd never come back and we'd never find out what happened to him, until we'd probably find him running the country eventually," says Cronenberg, who insists Mortensen "takes the best out of Method and leaves the bullshit behind." As Aragorn, a caped crusader in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he supposedly slept for weeks in his medieval getup. (MSNBC -- News)
Sorry, squire, your dacks are just too daggy Jan 30, 2008
And in that beginning was the end, really, for Elizabeth begat Empire, Empire begat Commonwealth, and Commonwealth begat a London where Jamaicans laugh and talk on the Tube, where Neighbours stars are household names and the Walkabout pub chain celebrate Australia Day as if everyone knew it from Anzac. The Brit lit crit Terry Eagleton once prophesied (after the event, and after Yeats) "the centre cannot hold". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Wooten: Wrap it up. Ted's in. Jan 29, 2008
Maybe it s time for a walkabout down under. By Patrick. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Washington Post Film Critic Jan 21, 2008
Also, wonderful double bills at the old Penn at Penn and 21st, like "Walkabout" and "Zulu" together. Desson Thomson: You have been around the block, I see. (Washington Post)
Souths adjusting to North Florida Jan 19, 2008
7 p.m.-midnight: Barons Brewing Australia Day Bash for fans at Walkabout 2 Cafe (14333 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville). SATURDAY, Jan. 26 1 p.m.: Australia Day Challenge between the Rabbitohs and Rhinos. (Florida Times-Union)
Australia.com Black Tie Gala Announces Harrison Ford and John Travolta to Present to Honorees Kylie Minogue and Phillip Noyce Jan 17, 2008
2008 events in New York include a Queensland Government Walk on the Wildside dinner with Terri and Bindi Irwin to benefit Wildlife Warriors, and two tourism events - the Great Aussie Auction and Australia Walkabout Planet Oz presented by Conde Nast. The 2007 inaugural New York events established a platform for the philanthropic, fashion and financial sectors and in 2008 the momentum continues with the Australia Plays Broadway show, the Merino 200 Jacobs Creek Australia Day Black Tie Gala, the... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Now Playing: CES Walkabout Jan 14, 2008
CES Walkabout Get a feel for what it's like to attend the Consumer Electronics Show. Source: Added On January 10, 2008. (Multichannel News)
Going walkabout Jan 2, 2008
au/news/arts/going-walkabout/2008/01/01/1198949812892. htmlsmh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
With grit or grace, they left their mark Jan 1, 2008
Paul Tibbets, commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, was hailed along with military heroes Eugene Fluckey, Billy Walkabout, John Henebry, Silvestre Herrera, Jefferson DeBlanc, Raleigh Rhodes, and Jay Zeamer. Crusaders for social justice and human rights bade goodbye to Yolanda King, Carolyn Goodman, Charlie Brady Hauser, and Irene Kirkaldy; antinuke leader Randall Forsberg; gay-rights leader Barbara Gittings; feminists Lorraine Rothman and Mary Crisp; social activist Vernon Bellecourt; and... (Boston Globe)
Movies that conjure an endless summer Dec 26, 2007
Walkabout (1971), directed by Nic Roeg, is a desert movie too, but it starts with a picnic, which suggests holidays. It scrapes into my list on these grounds and becaus 00004000 e Jenny Agutter swimming naked adds the required sexiness. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
IN 2008 I will...| Dec 24, 2007
6-billion went walkabout, R689-million of which has not yet been recovered. But it's not only private money that has gone astray. (iAfrica.com)
Queen Elizabeth II opens her own YouTube channel Dec 24, 2007
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets wellwishers during a walkabout in Windsor, England as she celebrates her 80th birthday. MORE BUZZ. (AZCentral -- News)
Fred Thompson's Lazy Day Dec 21, 2007
Mark Halperin of Time magazine and I drove up to Waverly to catch the Thompson walkabout, and since we got there early, we popped into the offices of the Waverly Democrat. Anelia Dimitrova, the executive regional editor, greeted us in warmly and invited us to have a seat, chat and use the bathroom. (CBS News)
Cannabis 'affecting young minds' Dec 15, 2007
----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Sunday, 10 December 2006, 00:36 GMT. (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)
British actors dominate TV Globes Dec 15, 2007
" Other British successes at the Los Angeles ceremony included Sacha Baron Cohen, named best actor in a film musical or comedy for Borat. Screenwriter Peter Morgan collected the best screenplay award for The Queen. Babel was named best film drama, and Dreamgirls best musical or comedy movie, while Martin Scorsese won the best director honour for The Departed. FILM AWARDS 2007 ACADEMY AWARDS NEWS OSCARS SPOTLIGHT OTHER AWARDS NEWS HAVE YOUR SAY RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible... (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Gulpilil hospitalised after falling ill on plane Dec 5, 2007
Gulpilil's first role was in the 1971 Australian classic Walkabout. He has starred in more than 26 films including Ten Canoes, Rabbit Proof Fence and Crocodile Dundee. (NEWS.com.au)
Interview with Will Self Dec 3, 2007
IDEAS: What were you hoping you'd experience on your book-tour walkabout. SELF: I'm interested in orientation. (Boston Globe)
North San Diego County Community News Briefs: Art association announces show winners Nov 27, 2007
" Carlsbad's sister city, Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, is conducting a similar contest. Students from both cities will be featured in an international exhibit in 2008. Entrants must be Carlsbad residents. Maximum submission of three photos per entrant. Deadline for entries is Dec. 14. Entry forms are available at all Carlsbad libraries, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at the Carlsbad Arts Office, 2955 Elmwood Drive; e-mail ; (760) 434-2900 or (760) 434-2904.AIDS quilt on... (North County Times)
Tom Cruise fights on Nov 8, 2007
At The Times BFI London Film Festival last month, where the film received its world premiere, Cruise did his customary walkabout, 100 megawatt smile on full beam for the cameraphone-wielding crowds. He knows how to work them, even when sporting a dodgy new hairdo for a new Nazi-themed movie. (Times Online)
The Three Rivers Film Festival still matters Nov 1, 2007
Dan Marsula/Post-Gazette illustration Images from films (left to right): "Terror's Advocate," "Dhamma Brothers," "Strange Girls," "Underworld" and "Walkabout.". Pittsburgh, alas, isn't on the festival circuit for George Clooney, Jude Law or Keira Knightley. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Suspected Truck Stopped at Wegmans Oct 27, 2007
R News: As It Happens, Where It Happens. Saturday October 27, 2007. (R News)
Missing Persons Unit Oct 25, 2007
Tonight's missing includes a demented old woman, a bloke who goes walkabout, and a teenage runaway ... Tonight's missing includes a demented old woman, a bloke who goes walkabout, a runaway teenage girl and man with dreadlocks who had told police he was being followed by Maoris. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Tom Cruise delights fans Oct 24, 2007
23, 2007 08:21 AM Tom Cruise delighted fans at the world premier of new movie 'Lions for Lambs' with a two-hour walkabout Monday night. Cruise arrived in London's Leicester Square hours ahead of the screening to spend time with his adoring fans, happily posing for photographs and signing countless autographs. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Festival unveils new Cruise movie Oct 23, 2007
Good-natured walkabout ... But despite the good-natured atmosphere of the walkabout, due to a previous incident in which Cruise was squirted with a water pistol, people's bags were searched by organisers concerned something similar might happen again. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Three Rivers Film Festival features an exotic mix of movies Oct 18, 2007
"Walkabout" -- New print of Nicolas Roeg's first feature about siblings stranded in the Outback ... Tickets, $8, for the opening-night selections -- "Strange Girls," "Grace Is Gone" and "Walkabout" -- will be available starting Friday at Filmmakers' headquarters at 477 Melwood Ave. and all three box offices during hours of operation. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Not a McLeod in sight Oct 13, 2007
Twin sisters followed different paths: Rhoda to acclaim and success via the very upright field of nursing and Lois to brain injury, Nimbin and a death that local police appear not to have investigated because they assumed the girl had gone walkabout. This is not a forensic documentary. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Roeg's former glory stuck in the mud Sep 29, 2007
A misbegotten attempt at witchy pagan gothic by a intermittently great director Roeg's is the singular sensibility behind Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Bad Timing this adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel (by her son Dan) offers but a faint flickering of that former glory. After buying a rundown cottage next door to a home occupied by Miranda Richardson's baby-crazy boozer Mabs, her three daughters and spooky-wigged mother Rita Tushingham, the fetchingly... (Toronto Star)
Sounding the design alarm Sep 23, 2007
The weekend alarm clock won't be made by a big alarm clock company, it'll be designed by someone like Gauri Nanda, who I mentioned a few weeks back as the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that goes walkabout. Gauri, needless to say, was working on her own. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Yes... by a whiskerThe drama of the night Wales very nearly said no to the assembly Sep 19, 2007
But if Mr Davies was to be remembered later for going walkabout, the stroll that should have won him his place in the political history books should really have been the one he took inside the college as he appeared to be facing his own Waterloo. It has been claimed subsequently that when he took his tour of the college he already knew that he had won, and that this was just "a little joke on the media". (BBC News -- UK)
Family and friends gather for Diana memorial Sep 1, 2007
As Diana was being guided towards the waiting 'dignatories' having already done a walkabout with the members of the public who had gathered to see her, a small child in the crowd called out "Lady Diana, Lady Diana". She could have ignored the call as the child was some distance away. (Yahoo News -- Princess Diana)
Things that go bump in the outback Aug 16, 2007
From the strange beauty of Walkabout to the savagery of Mad Max 2, outback Australia has been used as a setting for a huge variety of films. But it is Australian horror films that have really exploited that remoteness to the full. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Get back to where we once belonged... Jul 30, 2007
Neil takes time off from his touring schedule to go walkabout in Glasgow. He asks a businessman for directions to the Bank of Scotland, then entertains bemused passers-by with his trusty banjo and a stark version of 'The Old Laughing Lady. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Warm kiss for Camilla as she continues to win hearts and minds Jul 28, 2007
Sweeping royal protocol aside, retired nurse Olive embraces the Duchess of Cornwall during a walkabout at the Sandringham Flower Show Photo: Alphapress ... And both her down-to-earth nature and her popularity were evident as she met crowds during a walkabout during an official engagement this week. (hellomagazine.com)
Rwandan TV: shouldn't you be in flooded Witney? Jul 25, 2007
He had hoped the Sunday walkabout in his constituency would settle the issue. His office even looked at cutting down the visit to one night rather than two. (Guardian Unlimited)
A long way from here Jul 21, 2007
They stretched from 1970s landmark movies such as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, My Brilliant Career, Wake in Fright, Walkabout and Mad Max, straight into the 1980s releases Razorback, Crocodile Dundee, and Rikky and Pete. With Gone, we have two more innocent British adventurers - played by Shaun Evans, 25, (Being Julia, Teachers) and Amelia Warner, 23, (Mansfield Park, Love's Brother) - who end up in desperate trouble on their road trip around the outback of contemporary Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
When you, me and Aussie spirit make three, it's true love Jul 17, 2007
Back home in London, he gets up at daybreak to see his beloved Swannies play, watches endless episodes of Rex-Bloody-Hunt, and haunts our local pub, Walkabout, in Shepherd's Bush just to hear an Aussie accent - at least, that's what he tells me. He religiously reads the Herald on the web and emails me the Fitz Files. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Advance Australia - to Clerkenwell and Hackney Jul 13, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Brigid DelaneyJuly 13, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Pete Doherty's new book: The diary of a nobody Jun 30, 2007
Such a quasi-religious tone would be over the top if the Pope had squelchingly gone walkabout among the mud, condoms and discarded vegetarian curries. The reality is that Kate's poses of normality are to her commercial advantage, and even more to the advantage of her backers. (Daily Mail)
Road to somewhere - township visit far from remote Jun 28, 2007
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)
