tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37418257335231325452012-02-04T02:35:02.274+11:00the Social ShuttleImagesOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comBlogger8211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-73452632739467945112012-02-03T03:03:00.004+11:002012-02-03T11:37:45.969+11:00Fashion World Sees SenseHe has often been named as one of the world's best dressed men-HRH Prince Charles and the Shuttle fully agrees.
Having encountered Charles twice in an official capacity and accompanied him though two exhibitions, we always noted that Charles dress sense is impeccable.
Not a thing out of place, no shirt sleeve hem to long or short, trousers cuffs (impeccably pressed)just resting at the top of Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-34685931783505458702012-02-02T19:48:00.001+11:002012-02-02T21:21:31.750+11:00Life Changing Moments On The BridgeJust the other day we had David Hasslehoff proposing to his Welsh girlfriend Hayley Roberts at the summit of Sydney's famous Harbour Bridge.
James Cameron & wife Suzi last month on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
It's one of the all time great tourism successes-shackling together groups of eager climbers and leading them to the top to take in the awe inspiring sight over Sydney's magnificent Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-13861262786874332212012-02-02T01:27:00.000+11:002012-02-02T21:05:52.209+11:00Queen Losing Her Hair
Connolly
Charles
The UK has not only the genuine article but a clever look-a-like who has made a lifetime career out of impersonating her.
We refer to HM The Queen and her impersonator Jeanette Charles who has featured in endless TV commercials playing Her Maj and even been hired by social climbing European businessmen to accompany them to social events.
Australia has it's very own Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-54271348128127259842012-02-01T02:21:00.000+11:002012-02-02T21:14:13.460+11:00Another Day..Another AACTA
a red dog
This is becoming repetitive. Not a week seems to go by without a new film award. Just a few days ago Geoffrey Rush was in Los Angeles helping hand out AACTA gongs to the Gumleaf Mafia and LA locals like Meryl Streep. That was followed by the SAG Awards a few days later.
Cate Blanchett shines
Miranda Kerr
Megan Gale
Last night he looked bright eyed and bushy tailed at Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-76251088636568593172012-01-31T19:40:00.001+11:002012-01-31T19:58:24.170+11:00Ain't Love Grand
He singlehandley brought down the Berlin Wall (or something like that), now Baywatch star 59 year old David Hasslehoff has proposed to his 31 year-old girlfriend, Hayley
Roberts, this morning while climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Hoff is currently in Sydney starring in Celebrity Apprentice and has been seen around town doing all sorts of weird jobs like washing dogs and selling hot Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-82153687203008089782012-01-31T11:39:00.004+11:002012-01-31T12:59:20.441+11:00Big Stars For Mardi GrasThe Shuttle can reveal the top acts who will be performing at this years Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney on Saturday March 3rd: Kylie Mingoue and US drag star Ru Paul.
And Kylie, gay icon that she is, will have her own float in the parade from where she will wave to the crowd.
Kylie has been a long time supporter of the Mardi Gras and always supported her gay fans.
Despite being a major Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-8546449794062427812012-01-29T01:34:00.001+11:002012-01-29T19:41:27.351+11:00From Flab to Fab ! : Russell Crowe
Last night at LA's Soho House
RUSSELL CROWE ISN'T THE FIRST Hollywood star to have a battle with the bulge.
But look at the snap of our Russ from two years ago and our exclusive picture from last night's AACTA Awards in Los Angeles
2010
Crowe was topping the scale at a hefty 102 kilos but has shed 25K in a two year concerted workout regime and we have the secrets.
We and all Russell's Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-78965230628901039912012-01-27T21:17:00.000+11:002012-01-27T21:17:54.433+11:00We Stand Corrected It's the riot that keeps giving.......
Several missives arrive taking the Shuttle to task for claiming the famous missing show belonging to Prime Minister Julia Gillard was a Mixxy shoe designed by one of the USA's top fashionistas Betsey Johnson.
The shoe appeared for sale briefly on Ebay today before the advert was pulled.
In fact the shoe was a Midas brand with the name GLORIFY as Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-625258334894403712012-01-27T13:44:00.000+11:002012-01-27T17:57:35.966+11:00Julia Gillard-So FashionableYou too can dress like our gorgeous Welsh born Prime Minister. Julia Gillard.
The Shuttle has tracked down the designer of the famous Blue Suede Shoe that featured in yesterday's dramatic exit form a Canberra restaurant when the PM fled (with London born Opposition leader. Tony Abbott fast behind) to her waiting armour plated limo.
The shoe is fast becoming almost as famous as the Kevin Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-48709315320531882502012-01-27T01:30:00.004+11:002012-01-27T13:14:24.188+11:00It's Love.....
As the video and pictures sweep around the world.....Prime Minister Julia Gillard clinging to a minder and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott being bustled out of a Canberra restaurant surrounded by dozens of policemen and being attacked by....err....what looks like a chubby elderly Aboriginal gent and a large Hippie style woman, the hard questions are being asked..
who is the bodyguard ?
The Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-40181541483603205792012-01-26T15:20:00.000+11:002012-01-27T01:31:44.372+11:00Twitter Trends...Ahhh. Twitter.
The opportunity to read every intimate detail of people's lives as they go about their daily activities. Surely the prime example of information overload. The current Twitter trend is Jonathan King, the pop personality who just appeared at the Leveson Enquiry in London.
Leveson is looking into the amazing revelations that the pontificating media so beloved off the masses has beenOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-17825079013213946162012-01-26T02:11:00.000+11:002012-01-27T00:29:09.213+11:00Australia Day Eye Candy..It's pelting down with rain all over the country despite being mid-summer.
A gloomy Australia Day (or Invasion Day if you are Indigenous)...so here are some pics of our favourite super-model, Victoria's Secret star and the former Gunnedah resident who married a Hobbit...gorgeous Miranda Kerr wrapped in the Australian flag In a glorious display of nationalism and oddly-dressed as Wonder Woman.
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-24325687543421614952012-01-25T19:07:00.002+11:002012-01-25T19:18:01.219+11:00Australian Of The Year....He follows in the footsteps of Sir Robert Helpmann (right) and Paul Hogan to become the third actor to be declared Australian of The Year ten minutes ago at Parliament House In Canberra.
Our favourite Oscar winner-Geoffrey Rush receives a well deserved honour.
Below is part of the speech we recorded a few months ago when Geoffrey helped launch a book about the Belvoir Street Theatre where Rush Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-40410235432642960742012-01-25T12:19:00.000+11:002012-01-25T19:23:28.740+11:00Just One Aussie In Chance for Oscar WinWe do so love to live vicariously on this island but who could not feel proud that Kirk Baxter, a film editor who studied in Sydney has been nominated for an Oscar at the 2012 Academy Awards.
Kirk and co-editor Angus Wall have been nominated for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
The film stars Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Christopher Plummer (Plummer has been nominated for Best Supporting Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-89573425405929904142012-01-25T00:38:00.002+11:002012-01-25T19:22:51.928+11:00Grin And Bear It!
Robert Redford at Sundance
A BIG THUMBS UP for actor Nash Edgerton's short film Bear which premiers today at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The Sundance Festival was created in 1978 and the actor Robert Redford is chairman,.
Directed by Edgerton, Bear stars Nash with Teresa Palmer and Warwick Thornton. Below is a clip from the film which was produced by Lauren Edwards and Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-27348040328698423632012-01-24T01:13:00.000+11:002012-01-25T19:25:09.420+11:00Photo Fail!
businessinsider.com
While tales of the luxurious living arrangements of the recently busted and gloriously named Kim Dotcom resound around the world in the FBI's bust of the allegedly piracy file sharing site Megaupload (see scary poster below now on the website), one Sydney photo agency manager who wished to remain anonymous is crying foul !
Apparently for the last three years they have beenOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-36724947103721755712012-01-24T00:45:00.001+11:002012-01-24T01:28:08.695+11:00Winner Of The Week!She's one feisty lady and sharp as a tack. She got our attention in 2010 when she clambered to the back of utility truck in a Subiaco oval (that's Perth's ritziest suburb) pearls jangling around her neck, and thrust her arms in the air while gold bangles cascaded down her wrists chanting :
" we will not stand for this unfair tax...billionaires united- will never be defeated!" (or words to thatOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-7867273285040064322012-01-23T02:24:00.000+11:002012-01-23T10:13:47.414+11:00Sydney Theatre Awards
Richard Roxburgh, Helen Dallimore & Andrew Upton at the Sydney Theatre Awards
300 MEMBERS of the Sydney theatre community
packed the auditorium at Paddington RSL to celebrate the best of Sydney
theatre throughout 2011.
Kirsten & David Williamson at the awards
Amongst the recipients :
Best Mainstage Production was awarded to Belvoir’s production of The Wild Duck,
which also won Best Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-1446614999378382922012-01-21T01:51:00.001+11:002012-01-21T01:57:01.149+11:00Royal update:Limos,Guards,Guns and Paddington
It's generally one of the quietest times of the year with
just the Sydney Festival providing some light relief but last week was fairly
eventful for the normally deserted Paddington and Double Bay.
Najib Razak & Rosmar Mansor
The Shuttle became embroiled in a minor fracas in Paddington
mid-week as we motored through the back streets and emerged onto William
Street, the tiny thoroughfare Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-43400625738032459502012-01-20T01:37:00.000+11:002012-01-20T01:37:35.108+11:00Aussies on The European Catwalk
YOU CAN'T MOVE on the European fashion cat-walks at present for Aussies-Miranda Kerr, Gemma Ward and the androgynous beauty Andrej Pejic (a favourite of Jean Paul Gaultier)
The way was paved of course by the likes of Elle McPherson , but now male twins-the Stenmarks (left) are becoming the ones to watch.
Zac and Jordan Stenmark have appeared in shows for Calvin Klein along with aOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-3326226276346410882012-01-18T00:41:00.000+11:002012-01-18T23:48:35.106+11:00Emerald City Update #4ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S top publicists, Roxy Jacenko of Sweaty Betty fame threw a swish bash in her Woollahra home last night to launch her first book Strictly Confidential.
Roxy
Roxy seems to have a best-seller on her hands going by some of the reviews:
‘Think of it as The Devil Wears Prada meets the PR industry … ‘
’It’s a riveting read with lots of humour and plenty of real-life
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-83564212249909581412012-01-17T01:42:00.000+11:002012-01-17T01:46:16.874+11:00..Meanwhile In Bondi Junction
Tim Draxyl,Kevin Bishop,Xavier Samuel,Kris Marshall
As the Golden Globes unfolded, movie history of another kind was being made at Bondi Junction with the premiere of Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men. Stephan's latest offering looks set to succeed at the box office if the comments at the after-party are anything to go by.
Rebel Wilson
The Shuttle had to attend the Sydney Theatre Awards butOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-33489946436187414882012-01-17T01:20:00.000+11:002012-01-17T01:20:35.608+11:00Shining at The Golden Globes
Such glamour and they do it so well in Hollywood. Our exclusive pics from last night's Golden Globe Awards and an interview with Meryl Streep on the red carpet below :
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-79480258300348968232012-01-16T00:48:00.002+11:002012-01-16T01:01:24.526+11:00Sharon Sargeant Vs The Middletons
Britney Spears attacks paparazzi
Lord Justice Leveson
At the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking in the UK, the picture editor of The Daily Mail-the newspaper that receives more web hits than any other publication on the planet-Paul Silva gave evidence that Pippa Middleton the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge,
Kate Middleton, typically has eight or nine photographers camped
outside her Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-72113958219137929852012-01-15T22:47:00.002+11:002012-01-15T22:48:41.725+11:00Partying in Hollywood
Guy Pearce & Kate Mestitz (UPI)
Abbie Cornish
HOLLYWOOD'S GUM LEAF Mafia were out in force at the annual G'Day USA Ball in
Hollywood.
Miranda Kerr, Guy Pearce, Paul Hogan, Jackie Weaver, Abbie Cornish , Olivia Newton John and Rachel Taylor joined Priscilla Presley, John Travolta and Kate Winslet last night at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom
The menu was
prepared by popular Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-70070256208022062022012-01-14T00:37:00.001+11:002012-01-14T00:37:29.361+11:00Shock Video:Dannii Minogue in Three-in-a-Bath Romp
MOVE OVER X Factor and Australia's Got Talent. Long before these shows were discovering young talent- from 1971 to 1988 Young Talent Time was presenting a host of new Aussie kids with some who went onto become major world stars.
On January 22nd YTT (as it is known ) returns to the Ten Network after a 24 year absence with a new cast of kids and Rob Mills as host (the originator of the show and Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-53521883462927237352012-01-13T00:03:00.002+11:002012-01-13T00:11:43.322+11:00Lots Of Movie Stars!
Next Monday brings the long awaited premiere in Bondi of A
Few Best Men, the latest offering from Stephan Elliott (left) whose career has enjoyed
something of roller-coaster ride since picking up an Oscar for his 1994 success
Priscilla Queen of The Dessert.
The movie stars Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop
and Olivia Newton-John and the word is Olivia puts in a great performance as
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-74065671517332886192012-01-11T01:15:00.001+11:002012-01-11T18:17:42.504+11:00First Fiji-Now Kings Cross
SYDNEY GIRL-ABOUT-TOWN SHARON SARGEANT has returned to Sydney after holidaying in Fiji for the past week at the uber Jean-Michel Cousteau Islands Resort, the luxurious hotel that has cabins stretching along it's own palm fringed beach.
The Shuttle's local spy disguised as a fallen coconut managed to grab a few shots of the fun loving Shazza on the beach despite the hotel's boast that armedOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-37579545081197430522012-01-09T01:24:00.000+11:002012-01-11T18:16:56.269+11:00Society Surgeon's Wrist SlapSYDNEY SURGEON Michael Zacharia, a favourite nip and tuck doctor in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs has been fined $15,000 for prescribing steroids,
growth hormones and testosterone by the NSW Medical Tribunal.
It's quite a blow for the talented doctor who is a regular on TV shows like Extreme Makeover and is regularly consulted by glossy magazines like Cleo and Woman's Day.
Society ladies ( and quiteOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-90262672040745630522012-01-08T00:50:00.002+11:002012-01-08T00:51:50.657+11:00When Celebrity Support Pays
THE AY FAMILY, Kurdish refugees from Turkey, were detained for 13 months in
2002 as the British government attempted to return them to Germany, where they had
first made a claim for asylum.
At the time the youngest, Medya, was just seven when the family were arrested and
locked up in 2002, Dilovan was 11, Newroz was 12 and Beriwan was 13.
But the Ay family had some high profile Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-12748808534746606752012-01-06T01:13:00.003+11:002012-01-06T01:30:55.977+11:00Annnie Get Your Gun-Maria Gets Engaged!
SHE'S THE LARGER than life red carpet regular but buxom Maria Venuti shocked even the jaded press tonight when she announced that she was engaged as she arrived at the premiere of the musical Annie.
Maria introduced the tall dark stranger accompanying her as her 'fiance' and who are we to doubt her?.
The gentleman's name is Glen Ware and Glen looked slightly taken aback at the news as out Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-72605811122648513062012-01-04T14:54:00.000+11:002012-01-17T00:23:07.927+11:00Saucy Pics of Deborah HuttonWomens Weekly has a nude photographic of TV personality Deborah Hutton on it's cover. Deb is looking pretty hot for someone who has just turned 50 (despite the claims the snap may have been airbrushed).
Hutton hasn't stop working since the 1980s when she was the cover girl for the Grace Bros emporiums (now Myer). At that time the speculation was that she was girlfriend of promoter Harry Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-19077370427837154082012-01-04T10:14:00.000+11:002012-01-04T10:16:56.505+11:00The Social Shuttle Scoops The World!
We sat this one out as we watched the world's media breathlessly report the Twitter words of Wendi Deng supposedly responding to hubby Rupert Murdoch's odd witterings on the weird site Twitter (admittedly to which we belong) that brings you second by second the thoughts of hundreds of millions of folks in the first sign that the world is plunging into an era of information overload.
The Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-77730185340479001852012-01-03T18:55:00.003+11:002012-01-04T10:02:12.913+11:00Twittering about Rupert Murdoch
We here are counting the days and hours until the penny finally drops on the collective media who are perpetuating the fantasy that now Rupert Murdoch is on Twitter, he has been joined by Wendi Deng.
A minimum amount of research reveals the true twitterer in this case.
Wake up folks!
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-90708452171338542522012-01-02T02:58:00.000+11:002012-01-02T02:58:46.119+11:00Tabloid Tales :"Kate's Pregnant!"
Daily Telegraph
Australia's top selling tabloid The Daily Telegraph (proprietor : Rupert Murdoch) brings us the tale of how dozens of magazines world-wide have reported the false claim that Prince William's bride Kate is pregnant.
A 'staff writer' tells us how "a tally of incorrect US gossip mag covers shows their editors have made fake hay while the sun remained behind clouds this year" whenOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-24405500253314099232012-01-01T02:50:00.000+11:002012-01-01T03:01:38.712+11:00UK Newspaper's Saucy Pic
It's one of the Shuttle's favourite newspapers in all the world-The Daily Mail in the UK and it's on-line version Mail Online. It's mixes gossipy tidbits about celebrities with saucy tales on the Royal Family, the usual Fleet Street 'outrages' in line with it's right wing policies condemning welfare 'scroungers' (usually pointing out they may well be Polish) heady beat-ups about the lack of Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-54377160519177175682011-12-31T11:32:00.001+11:002012-01-01T03:02:23.375+11:00Clive James on Queen's Honours ListSydney born Clive James, author, poet and broadcaster has received a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) medal for services to
Literature and the Media in the Queen's New Years Honours List.
Other show biz recipients include comedian Ronnie Corbet and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Read the full list here.
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-49515321984321486672011-12-31T01:53:00.001+11:002011-12-31T01:57:30.184+11:00A Bumpy Year & A Bieber Baby
The 2012 predictions are flowing in and the usual catastrophes await us-floods, typhoons etc as well as our old favourite Nostradamus predicting the beginning of WW3.
The New York Post's Cindy Adams says Justin Bieber will become a dad for real and Prince William and Kate become parents (that organ of repute Woman's Day says likewise but that 'medical intervention' will be needed)
The famous Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-17190438639555623152011-12-30T18:16:00.000+11:002011-12-30T18:17:19.440+11:00Paramedic Mick Wilson Family Appeal Ever had to call the Paramedics ?. And been soo thankful when they arrive?. We at The Shuttle have as have most of our family members.
Astonishingly Paramedics cannot get life insurance because of their dangerous work.
Mick Wilson, 41, died when a helicopter winch line he was attached to
was cut during the rescue of two canyoners at Carrington Falls,
southwest of Wollongong, on Christmas Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-74376733250571807142011-12-29T02:26:00.000+11:002011-12-29T02:27:19.796+11:00Julia Gillard And Those Lesbian Rumours
First Lady Gaga referred to Australian prime minister Julia Gillard as a lesbian before being corrected earlier this year and now a viral email has been doing the rounds with an exert from Ms Gillard's profile when she was a university student activist which states: " I understand homosexual rights as I am in a lesbian relationship".
But the Shuttle has tracked down the genuine exert and Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-4322707559658714312011-12-26T23:18:00.000+11:002011-12-27T19:59:42.060+11:00A Christmas Tale
Alex Day
The Shuttle spent Christmas Day in the company of good friends at a lavish lunch, eating turkey and quaffing Bollinger ( as one should).
One guest at the table was a well known music industry lawyer who regaled us with tales of court room battles between artists and their record companies. He described his first job as a green barrister sent to London to handle a case against a Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-63023403432320106612011-12-25T09:24:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:01:08.378+11:00Leo DiCaprio's Catalogue Christmas Present
Great Gatsby star Leonardo DiCaprio is back in California today for Christmas after flying out of Sydney on Thursday afternoon courtesy of The Star Casino's corporate jet.
Accompany him was Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherington who the Daily Mail has reported, Leo spotted in an underwear model catalogue and contacted her with a request to join him in Sydney. Erin continued on to Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-4306526322713537802011-12-23T13:30:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:01:42.208+11:00Holly Valance-Didn't She Do Well!It's official. Multi millionaire Nick Candy has popped the question to long time girlfriend, former Aussie soap star Holly Valance and the two have announced their engagement.
Nick is one half of the successful Candy brothers who have made a fortune out of real estate developments in London. Their One Hyde Park development is the most glitzy and expensive block of apartments on the market.
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-88308214192818293872011-12-22T12:44:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:02:46.580+11:00What Have We Done To Kevin Spacey?Following our story on Bob Carr's attack on Kevin Spacey's Richard 111
performance in Sydney, and our follow-up tale on the British
blogger Madame Arcati who had become embroiled in a Spacey family spat and been subsequently banned by Spacey from his Twitter account, the "former shoe salesman now making a go at film and theater. Wish me luck..." (Kevin's description of himself) Oscar winning Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-27854752509899727142011-12-22T10:09:00.001+11:002011-12-27T20:03:22.482+11:00Distant Cousins? #4 Who's Your Daddy?
There has been much speculation in the media over the
biological father of the late great entertainer Michael Jackson's children Paris and Prince
with their birth mother Debbie Rowe claiming they were conceived with sperm
from an anonymous donor.
A regular Shuttle reader points to the following and the
remarkable resemblance between Prince Jackson and the so-called 'mascot' of the
popular Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-59815528870731676352011-12-20T18:20:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:10:06.825+11:00Drag Star Carmen Laid to RestSome mourners flew across the Tasman for her funeral as the legendary drag star and Kings Cross identity Carmen Rupe was laid to rest today at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.
Carmen died last week of kidney failure at the age of 75.
At her service at the Sydney Anglican Maori Church in Redfern almost 250 mourners crammed in to celebrate Carmen's life and were treated to same memorable stories.
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-2638481729073127022011-12-19T01:25:00.002+11:002011-12-27T20:12:34.476+11:00No Invites To Bill Gate's Party
New Year's Eve on Sydney Harbour is always a great event with the spectacular midnight fireworks.
One of the world's richest men Bill Gates is hosting a party at his rented Point Piper mansion but it will be mainly a family affair with just a handful of invited guests. Although the Shuttle has seen the guest list and the catering arrangements-it's a fairly modest affair considering Gates isOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-55884352299727006712011-12-17T00:33:00.001+11:002011-12-27T20:14:11.735+11:00Stalking A High Profile Lawyer
"Media Stalking"
One of Sydney’s best known criminal lawyers, Christopher Murphy says he has a stalker and has appealed for help in tracking down the man’s identity.
Murphy has posted two videos on YouTube of a man silently standing on the street corner very near Murphy’s home, holding what looks to be a professional TV camera but with no identifying markers.
It’s fairly clear watching Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-26647534418161477562011-12-16T16:21:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:15:01.515+11:00Tassie Dishwasher Takes UK Chef’s CrownFor a tiny population Tasmania is punching well above its
weight.
With ex-real estate agent Mary Donaldson, now Crown Princess Mary who
will one day rule Denmark, Ricky Ponting dominating the cricket, fashion queen Allannah
Hill and the never to be forgotten Hollywood star Errol Flynn, comes the Tasmanian born chef Ash
Mair who has picked up the gong in the UK as Britain's Masterchef in the Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-66331673736867165502011-12-15T18:45:00.003+11:002011-12-27T20:16:23.083+11:00Legendary Carmen Passes Away
She literally stopped traffic around the inner city of Sydney as she drove along streets in her motorised wheel chair, feathers flying and multi coloured boas trailing behind. Always with a cheery wave and a huge smile.
The famous New Zealand born drag queen Carmen Rupe passed away today in St Vincent's Hospital from kidney failure at the age of 74. A month ago she celebrated her birthday withOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-59164618632851836442011-12-15T06:48:00.001+11:002011-12-27T20:17:55.619+11:00Leo DiCaprio's New Sydney Neighbour-Bill Gates.As first revealed by Andrew Hornery in his PS column, the world's second richest man Bill Gates and his family are in Sydney and have settled in for a month's holiday in a grand Point Piper mansion.
Gates is staying just 6 doors away from Hollywood star Leo DiCaprio who is in Sydney to film Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (in glorious 3D). Leo also has an entire floor at the newly renovated StarOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-68659709210782195552011-12-14T13:49:00.001+11:002011-12-14T13:49:57.287+11:00Naomi Watts Boots Nicole Off Top Spot
Actress Naomi Watts is top of BRW's Young Rich List this
year having
been paid $19M for two movies this year which include J.Edgar which
opened to poor takings in the US.
Nicole Kidman took a
paltry $18.6M by comparison but both ladies beat Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman despite Jackman's box office record breaking run on Broadway.
Last year's winners-ACDC received only $9M compared to Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-90785235067342603482011-12-13T11:55:00.000+11:002011-12-13T13:00:13.898+11:00Why George Clooney is in Sydney
George with Renee Brack yesterday
Hollywood actor George Clooney gave a talk yesterday at a Darling Harbour conference for a reputed fee of $600,000 and today he revealed the reason shortly before he departed Australia.
Clooney has his own satellite positioned over the Sudan with which he attempts to track war lords and criminals. Maintaining the satellite costs around $2M a year and his Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-24688705609277731982011-12-12T00:11:00.000+11:002011-12-27T20:18:32.610+11:00Kevin Spacey, Madame Arcati : An Obesession With Penises
Kevin Spacey’s Richard III closed last night after a triumphant run at the Lyric Theatre with Spacey receiving standing ovations. After the final performance Spacey shared
champagne with billionaire Paul Ramsay who had forked out a $200,000 donation to the Kevin Spacey Foundation for a pair of tickets
and another 100 grand for a game of tennis with the actor.
One theatre patron who wasn’t Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-80670107970448912032011-12-10T00:30:00.001+11:002011-12-27T20:19:14.870+11:00Live In Person : George Clooney !
Quite how the list of guest speakers at Mondays' gala event in Sydney-Global Leadership Forum will enlighten those shelling out between $880 and $1100 with is any one's guess but the line-up is fairly glitzy.
Home maker expert Martha Stewart will be talking about 'building a global brand' and the promoters are claiming she "had more influence on how Americans, eat, entertain, and decorate Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-48982151504105222502011-12-09T00:01:00.001+11:002011-12-27T20:20:21.986+11:00Sydney : Know Thyself
Maybe it says a lot about Sydneysiders- the fact that they
know little of the man the city is named after.
Lord Sydney, Tommy
Townshend was the British Home Secretary when two fledgling towns were named in
his honour, Sydney in Nova Scotia in 1785 and the NSW colony’s capital Sydney Town
in 1788.
Viscount Sydney
But its Thomas Townshend’s enlightened policies that the
country owes Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-848571274083932022011-12-08T23:47:00.001+11:002011-12-09T18:29:11.372+11:00A Letter From Hugh Jackman..written to a sixteen year old Hugh Jackman....
See more at Dear Me : A Letetr to My Sixteen Yearl Old Self with JK Rowling, Alice Cooper, Stephen King, Danni Minogue with donations going to Doctors Without Borders.Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-47565510866441527302011-12-07T00:16:00.001+11:002011-12-09T18:30:22.568+11:00Bob Carr Savages Kevin Spacey
The critics have loved his performance but former NSW premier
turned art critic Bob Carr has walked out of Kevin Spacey’s Richard 11 during interval.
Writing on his Thoughtlines website Carr says:
Bob Carr loonpond.blogspot.com
“If you like Shakespeare, don’t see this. If you liked Kevin
Spacey in American Beauty (1999) don’t see this. If you like the fun of
Shakespeare’s villain Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-41542187774998814432011-12-06T14:02:00.001+11:002011-12-06T14:58:02.609+11:00Bullied Teen Controversy Spins Out of ControlIt's another classic example of the power of the net that has seen Justin Beiber, Cody Simpson and Christian The Lion shoot to stardom after their youtube videos went haywire.
Jonah today
Jonah 4 months ago
This youtube video appeared quietly about 4 months ago. It's young US teen Jonah Mowry talking about his experiences as a bullied gay lad in school.
He prefaced it with a message that Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-24810377927942174412011-12-06T00:33:00.001+11:002011-12-06T01:33:31.050+11:00Speaking Up For The Voiceless
Ondine Sherman & Sarah Ferguson
When the ABC TV's Four Corners program screened A Bloody Business in March this year the political and public backlash was deafening. The images of the cruel treatment Australian cattle
received in Indonesian abattoirs generated overwhelming public
outcry and the temporary suspension of the trade with Indonesia.
The reaction was just what the organisation Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-36240309497010386142011-12-04T18:02:00.001+11:002011-12-05T00:16:09.054+11:00Kevin Spacey Wins Big Time
Paul Ramsay
He's received rave reviews for his Richard III at the Lyric Theatre and now actor Kevin Spacey has won over billionaire Paul Ramsay who parted with $200,000 for a pair of tickets for the closing night next Sunday with champagne after with Spacey. Ramsay also bid $100,000 at auction to play tennis for an hour with the Hollywood star.
Ramsay was at a Spacey's charity dinner at Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-57204716949377979092011-12-03T00:57:00.001+11:002011-12-04T02:08:03.447+11:00Elton John Sees Red
Elton at the Sydney Opera House
The grand old man of pop music Sir Elton John declared war on those who stigmatised AIDS on Thursday night as he threw a switch to bathe the Sydney Opera House in a brilliant red light to launch World AIDS Day.
"Fascists and idiots" he called them while calling on governments worldwide to increase funds to combat the disease now that there are over 34 million Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-89304106989984826722011-12-03T00:16:00.001+11:002011-12-09T18:27:55.767+11:00Louis Vuitton Goes Down Market
The Shuttle had an invitation to last night’s “glittering VIP” opening party for Louis Vuitton’s magnificent new George Street emporium but had to turn it down due
to a prior engagement.
“But how can you miss it” pleaded a breathless PR operative “when we have an
amazing list of top celebrities coming ?”
“like who ?”.
“Lara Bingle , Erica Heynatz, Melissa Doyle,
Miranda Kerr !”
“anyone Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-16580710260702926262011-12-02T00:11:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:52:27.220+11:00Dramas In Deepest Darling Point
Its home to some of the most desirable real estate in
Australia-the harbour side suburb of Darling Point with its tree lined
boulevards and grand mansions.
Tom & Nicolle once lived there. So does Edward de Bono when
in town,Ita Buttrose, singer Helen Reddy, actress Rachel Griffith and the
extended Bushels tea family, the Oxleys who have not only the legendary
Carthona ( Tom wanted to buy itOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-54372494387681973912011-12-01T00:43:00.000+11:002011-12-03T11:54:05.401+11:00Reece Mastin Update<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-66436942794182543922011-11-30T04:06:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:53:31.636+11:00Brush With FameAnyone who is a regular at press conferences or celebrity soirees in Sydney is used to the sight of Richard Simpkin.
He and an odd collection of fans of fame gather at entrances to parties to get autographs or photos. The assembled paparazzi usually swear to murder them when they momentarily stop the progress of the star du jour for a signature.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-15290420071239332722011-11-29T00:12:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:53:51.454+11:00Elton John Goes Potty
The Hope Estate in the beautiful Hunter Valley produces not
only excellent wines but has become the venue of choice for visiting performers
including Neil Diamond, The Who, Whitney Huston, James Taylor and Carole King. Last
week Dolly Parton sang there and this weekend Elton John gives two concerts.
Any excuse to visit the Hunter should be grabbed and vintner Michael
Hope by combining with Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-8715313848583351762011-11-28T09:00:00.001+11:002011-11-28T09:10:59.156+11:00Kylie-Then and Now
Australia's beloved singing budgie Kylie Minogue has been inducted in the ARIA Hall of Fame yesterday at the annual Aria Awards at the Olympic Park (in fact we all deserve an award for schlepping out to that park),
The award was presented by PM Julia Gillard who met Kylie earlier this year in Japan at a fundraiser for victims of the tsunami disaster.
Nice to see the former Neighbour's Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-57795993671731028542011-11-27T01:24:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:54:34.736+11:00Not Such Happy Feet 2
Every time the Shuttle has encountered film director George Miller over the past few years he has been wearing his 'lucky shirt'- a black silk number with three embroidered red peppers. Sadly it looks like his luck is waning of late.
After the brilliant success of the Oscar winning Happy Feet, the charming cartoon film about penguins, it's successor Happy Feet 2 has opened in the USA with Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-9031603280218801372011-11-26T00:35:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:55:01.397+11:00Kerri-Anne Lashes Out
Kerri-Anne
Jo Cassamento & Ronan Keating
It was fairly gloomy day yesterday- grey skies and intermittent rain. The atmosphere outside perhaps reflected that inside at the chic Darlinghurst restaurant Spic I Am where around 40 friends and production staff gathered for a farewell lunch for TV's daytime queen Kerri Anne Kennerley who has been dumped after a nine year run at Channel Nine.
Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-5710975518063308822011-11-24T00:16:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:55:25.001+11:00Reece Mastin's Victory
When the Shuttle encountered X-Factor contestant Reece Mastin 5 weeks ago at Sony's Wharf4Ward charity fundraiser at the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo we asked him if he was going to win. "No" was the answer.
Britain's biggest selling tabloid agrees with the Shuttle
But just as with young Jack Vidgen who won Australia's Got Talent, we already knew what Reece did not, and what a handful Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-57951449945240177732011-11-23T00:08:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:55:43.844+11:00It's Raining Men
Joel & his Great Gastby look
The Sydney Opera House-splendid in the sunshine, gloomy in
the rain. It bucketed down tonight at GQ’s Men Of The Year Awards. We didn’t let that stop us attending yet another
red carpet shindig where nice statuettes are handed out at another excuse
for a celebrity turn out.
Maybe not quite as celeb heavy as the UK awards in October with
Johnny Depp, Keith Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-87873828993805831612011-11-22T00:18:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:56:01.016+11:00Geoffrey Rush In Drag-and he's Brilliant!
Our favourite Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush is appearing as Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and he's brilliant!.
Rush is receiving rave reviews and is being compared favourably with previous notable efforts, the two Queens of the stage Dame Edith Evans and Dame Judi Dench.
The Australian's Chris Boyd says "Geoffrey Rush does something far more interesting and Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-27414180350253444382011-11-21T00:56:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:56:21.060+11:00Royals and Aristos
Chance Lodge
Few guests at photographer Susie Hagon’s book launch last week at the Wagner Gallery knew who
the lady in black was although her companion, Hal Salter from Melbourne in his jaunty red jacket and shoes is a
regular sight at racetracks around the country.
Hal Salter & The Duchess of Welbergen
She was the grandly titled Her Grace Stephanie Alesandra
Duchess of Welbergen who Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-12324226016077470172011-11-19T00:32:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:56:52.569+11:00The Full MonteTWO late arrivals at the Mother Of All Balls last week had all eyes swivelling in their direction.
Not just because one was the ample bossomed party girl Sharon Sargeant who became something of an Internet star in India when her picture from the same event last year was featured in the Times Of India newspaper, but it was also her seemingly new partner, an inscrutable looking gentleman in a Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-57331310051800297952011-11-18T00:03:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:57:22.902+11:00In The Houses Of The Muses
Martin Browne, Susie Hagon,Ross Steele
Photographer Susie Hagon has published her second book of photographs:
In The Houses Of The Muses.
It’s a collection of portraits of Australian identities and
scenes from Alexandria in Egypt where Susie has been involved in the project Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, the ambitious scheme to re-build the fabled Royal Library of
Alexandria reputedly burnt to theOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-51210022946150315282011-11-17T00:09:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:57:45.316+11:00Mother Of All Balls
Rachel Ward and husband Bryan Brown
Actress Rachel Ward's Mother of All Balls annual event has raised over $3M now for the YMCA and is becoming so popular that larger and larger premises are needed each year.
Held at Royal Randwick Racecourse this year, the huge function centre easily held the 450 guests who attended. With the theme- Shanghai Chic, a 1930s 'Paris of The East' atmosphere wasOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-59916735846646692592011-11-16T00:42:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:58:06.665+11:00Broadway Has A New Aboriginal Star.
Gospel singer Olive Knight at home in the Kimberleys
Hugh Jackman's one man show 'Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway" opened last Thursday in New York with a glittering opening night guest list including Donna Karan, Mandy Patinkin, Wendi Deng Murdoch and Hamish Bowles.
Olive Knight, an Aboriginal gospel singer from the Wangkatjungka community has swapped the dusty plains of the
Kimberley for Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-32890949873644366802011-11-16T00:01:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:58:42.784+11:00Artemis,Packer, Picasso and Obama
Shanthini Naidoo & Ros Packer at the Picasso show
She was at the Art Gallery of NSW last Friday taking in the
Picasso exhibition- Ros Packer, the widow of the late media mogul Kerry Packer
who passed away in 2008. On the same day a remarkable sculpture was being
loaded on a ship bound for Australia where it will arrive on December 27th.
A report has emerged claiming Ros may have been Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-82974377948904859832011-11-14T00:47:00.001+11:002011-12-03T11:59:16.160+11:00Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Mel B & Stephen Belafonte
Brynne Edelsten
Here they are-Who Magazine's 'Sexiest People'. Presented at a red carpet party at the Grand Hall at Sydney University. Plenty of good looking people but the only original thing about this bash was the superb location.
Breathless PR persons rushed yet another soapy star to be interviewed on the subject of being a 'sex symbol'. No wonder guests were Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-63634444518405170142011-11-13T15:28:00.004+11:002011-12-03T12:02:26.435+11:00God Save Us From Pompous Gits : Dawkins, Hitchens, FryA regular reader has forwarded a YouTube piece (below) in which the increasingly tiresome Stephen Fry interviews nutter Richard Dawkins who (the reader) believes decimates the concept of 'respect' and believes we should publish it. We have. It's real thigh slapping stuff.
There is a madness that encapsulates the navel gazing stuff being churned out by the disciples of New Atheism who are Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-12408775563946209462011-11-13T02:18:00.001+11:002011-12-03T12:09:51.132+11:00Kathy Lette-Swinging from The Chandeliers
Today is Kathy Lette is 53 and she plans to celebrate her birthday with hubby Geoffrey Robertson QC at London's Savoy Hotel where she says she will be "swinging from the chandeliers".
Kathy has been telling the London Evening Standard about her recent encounter with a would be handbag snatcher in London's East End:
"I think adrenaline kicked in. He grabbed it, but I wasn't going to
let him Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-81327030360251458462011-11-12T10:58:00.001+11:002011-12-03T12:03:09.109+11:00Scenes from Picasso
The Picasso exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW is a rare privilege-a must see. These are Pablo Picasso's own
choice, the works Pablo kept for himself, the ones he
couldn't bear to part with. The entire collection comes from the Musée National Picasso in Paris.
On Friday evening the Shuttle attended a private viewing along with Premier Barry O'Farrell, Federal Arts Minister Simon Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-59371098007752876092011-11-11T00:10:00.001+11:002011-12-03T12:03:28.582+11:00Dolly Parton & Horny Hillbillies
Ms Dolly Parton swept into her Sydney press conference yesterday and the media was treated to a full on performance.
Dolly's a real professional and armed with just a small bundle of notes she smoothed her way past every curly question with ease. Such as when she was asked to comment on Dr Conrad Murray's guilty verdict in the Michael Jackson death trial.
Dolly said she adored Michael and Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-31765914087416359532011-11-10T23:41:00.000+11:002011-11-11T00:05:17.907+11:00Earth to News Corp #4Another colourful feature in the glorious Daily Telegraph, Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sydney newspaper.
In a picture gallery titled Celebrities-Then and Now featuring stars when young and how they look today, such as Kelsey Grammer, Drew Barrymore, Andre Agassi etc, this one caught our eye with the caption:
Celebs then and now : Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin as child stars in 1994 film "The Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-75782737863264795462011-11-10T01:21:00.002+11:002011-11-10T01:25:56.625+11:00Big News at News LtdIt was an announcement that caught everyone by surprise today - the resignation of the boss of the Australian arm of News Ltd, John Hartigan.
Kim Williams
Even more surprising was Rupert Murdoch's following announcement in Melbourne today, that the Foxtel boss who also runs Fox Studios, Kim Williams will take Hartigan's place. Murdoch will now takeover as CEO of Australian operations.
It's aOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-10124773921838486032011-11-08T21:24:00.002+11:002011-11-09T00:10:46.760+11:00Subo, Anna Wintour and More
Susan Boyle is in Sydney for an exclusive appearance on X Factor.
Sony boss Denis Handlin took her on that all important harbour cruise yesterday to meet Susan's local family members and fans. What a sweet lady.
It's difficult to reconcile that the down-to-earth Subo is one of the major recording stars of the last ten years.
Meanwhile Vogue editors from around the world were summonsed to Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-89050915324476814442011-11-08T21:22:00.001+11:002011-11-09T00:14:40.251+11:00New York, New York-If I can can make it there...
Daniel Garofali, Matty Bee, Joan Rivers, Rupert Noffs
Twitter & Face book-it's like having a neighbour permanently gossiping over the back fence. No-one escapes your gaze.
The Shuttle has been keeping up with former Sydneysider Rupert Noffs who it appears, has settled nicely into an apartment in Manhattan to the extent of mastering that all important staple-chicken soup!. Helping out is Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-72823497535715107872011-11-08T17:16:00.001+11:002011-11-08T17:23:24.846+11:00Warne's Juggernaut Rolls On
And so to the glitzy Crown Casino in Melbourne and the launch of the private gambling den, Club 23 with a breathless Seven news correspondent saying "she has never seen anything like it" (memo to Kerry Stokes-send your staff out more)
Splash News (c)
Shane Warne appeared briefly with La Hurley in tow before depositing her in a hallway, only for calls from the media to re-appear for that Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-58870203448663001742011-11-08T13:54:00.000+11:002011-11-08T13:56:46.876+11:00Viral Video of The DayThe Shuttle's favourite comedian Julia Morris is proving a bIg hit on the weird show Celebrity Apprentice and viewers have noted her tearful pleas to support Breast Cancer research when she was able to give tens of thousands of dollars to the cause via the show. Here's the latest TV advert and app to download on your mobile to remind women to check (no doubt Julia would approve):
<p>&Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-9405629399525541712011-11-08T01:09:00.000+11:002011-11-08T01:11:32.906+11:00It's Delicious!
Matt Moran & Valli Little
Matt Preston & Bill Granger
Delicious Magazine has been a great Australian publishing success for ten years now and that's a good enough reason to throw a party.
Which is what they did last week at Carriageworks in the Inner West with a host of top foodies and chefs turning up to celebrate with editor Trudi Jenkins, including Masterchef's Matt Preston (who alsoOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-14705256579548228882011-11-07T01:26:00.000+11:002011-11-07T01:29:32.258+11:00More Honours for Nobel Winner Patrick White
Patrick White
Charlotte Rampling
The Australian film, The Eye of the Storm directed by Fred Schepisi has won the special jury prize at the Rome International Film Festival, alongside the French film See How They Dance by Claude Miller, the first time 2 movies have been awarded a joint prize.
The Eye Of The Storm stars Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis ( who according to Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-85472323596049961892011-11-07T01:06:00.000+11:002011-11-07T01:06:40.567+11:00I'm Tiffany-Come Fly With Me
One always groans as the Christmas season approaches. It's the silly season in Sydney which means everything basically shuts up shop until February next year and one goes into a sort of social de-tox mode. We suffer for our art.
Tiffany Farrington
Alan Joyce ?
Ace PR Tiffany Farrington gets first prize for the first party signalling that Christmas has arrived.
Tiffany also runs the veryOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-46022518985669208212011-11-06T01:16:00.000+11:002011-11-06T01:22:15.906+11:00Newspaper of The Year Photo DramaThe Sunday Telegraph, recipient of the Newspaper of The Award in the annual News Awards has been involved in a drama about a photograph they have published to day of nightclub tsar John Ibrahim- the man whose enemies keep (literally) taking pot shots at with very dangerous guns.
Ibrahim lunched at Otto's last Tuesday for the Melbourne Cup celebrations and later attended Famous Magazine's FlapperOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-51884899961675767492011-11-06T00:49:00.000+11:002011-11-06T01:20:53.198+11:00Murdoch awards himself first prizeIt almost brings a tear to your eye. I'm sure they deserved it. The Sunday Telegraph has won the Newspaper Of The Year Award.
The award was presented to Sunday Tele editor Neil Breen by Rupert Murdoch in the annual News Ltd Awards.
The great media baron is reported as saying "he had enormous pride in the great examples of the quality journalism rewarded by the judges."
Irrelevant / Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-15466207857326818392011-11-05T19:05:00.000+11:002011-11-06T00:30:16.164+11:00Baz Sets Us Right
First pic of Joel in 'Gatsby'
A missive arrives from Baz Luhrmann's production office for The Great Gatsby being filmed at Sydney's Fox Studios starring Leo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton.
It says that yes indeed, many of the cars used in the film are right hand drive-as the Shuttle reported last week- as they were sourced locally although 2 magnificent Dussenbergs were imported Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-71820568196949052132011-11-04T09:25:00.000+11:002011-11-04T10:05:47.042+11:00Get A Glimpse Of Joan Here
Joan at Flemington
Do not fret-the Chloe & Kim Kardashian charabanc may have fled town after turning down the $150,000 fee for an appearance at the Melbourne's Spring Carnival for Swisse , but Joan Collins now has a Sydney show as part of her one woman bandwagon. The Shuttle's Kardashian spy disguised as an over-priced handbag says their agent ordered Kim to return asap to LA to cash-in fieldOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-66584704876379354592011-11-03T12:10:00.001+11:002011-11-04T08:52:28.177+11:00No Longer Keeping Up With The Kardashians
As Kim Kardahsian and sister Chloe Hardashian do their round of media appointments today, requesting that their...errr.. 'privacy'..be respected over Kim's marriage split up (Mum Kris Jenner is doing likewise in the USA and scoffing at rumours Kim's ring is worth $2M.."only half that") one must wonder who has organised this PR tour as the calamities keep piling up.
It's either a total stuff-upOscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-15834328955449787952011-11-03T00:13:00.000+11:002011-11-03T11:31:12.926+11:00Edit This InEDIT is a fantastic shop in Surry Hills and there is nothing quite like it. An interiors collection that is as beautiful as it is unique.Witty, playful reimagining of vintage objects and
fabrics into new homewares and furnishings. Sofas, tables, chairs,
lamps, wall art, the range of fabrics designed in-house… they all have a uniquely Edit style
Angela Belle McSweeny, Di Hamill, Melinda Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741825733523132545.post-90524209712102520492011-11-03T00:12:00.000+11:002011-11-03T00:39:30.467+11:00Celeb Round-up
Kim Kardashian at Hugo's Lounge
Probably the whole world knows that Kim Kardashian is in town to launch her handbag range at David Jones having announced just 2 days ago her marriage is over.
Natalie Bassingthwaighte at Hugo's
At the party held for Kim tonight at Hugos Lounge in Kings Cross she lingered in a sort of tiny VIP section-handy for her as she is quite tiny herself- in a club Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.com