Going Native Affairs

This week journalist Mihingarangi Forbes will start a new gig as presenter of Native Affairs, Maori Television’s flagship current affairs show. Forbes is an award-winning journalist who honed her skills with stints at TVNZ and TV3 (including seven years at Campbell Live) before joining Maori Television last year as a producer for Te Kaea, the channel’s daily news bulletin.

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Into a world of magic

Oz: The Great and Powerful (PG) 130 mins ——————– Sam Raimi probably set out to produce an ambitious, cutting-edge prequel to the Wizard of Oz, but instead Oz: The Great and Powerful offers something of a return to classic Disney storytelling values, and that’s no bad thing. There’s already plenty of negative online chatter about Raimi’s arguably excessive use of CGI animation and other fripperies, but you should ignore that and look at how Oz does the basics, and does them well

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Bieber in spat with paparazzi

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was filmed lunging and shouting abuse at a photographer on Friday (NZT Saturday) during an ill-fated stay in London which has gone from bad to worse after he collapsed on stage the day before. The altercation, caught on camera, showed the 19-year-old get out of a van, try to move towards the unnamed member of the paparazzi and threaten him using several swear words.

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Kim and Kris’s divorce heats up

Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband Kris Humphries is reportedly infuriated over her recent health scare. The 32-year-old reality star is expecting her first child with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West and apparently became worried she was having a miscarriage on Tuesday after suffering from stomach pains

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