Ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko confessed last week to hiring the men who threw acid in the face of Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin in January.
Why do Russians love ballet?
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Film review: Great Expectations
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (M) (128 min) Directed by Mike Newell. Featuring Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
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.
Holly Hunter is best screen mum
Holly Hunter got a boost on International Women’s Day with the news that her animated character Elastigirl topped a UK poll for best screen mum. The character, voiced by Hunter in the 2004 Disney Pixar film The Incredibles, was voted ahead of Harry Potter’s mum Lily in the survey.
Neighbours ‘will hit 30 years’
Australia’s longest running soap Neighbours continues to defy the hallowed ratings system on which television networks heavily base their programming decisions.
Friday funny: The dancing officials
They have serious jobs that come with serious levels of stress. So, who can blame emergency and military staff the world over for wanting to shake off some of that weight.
Bieber’s bosses unimpressed
Justin Bieber’s label bosses reportedly gave him “a serious talking-to” amidst a host of controversies he’s involved in. The 19-year-old pop star has garnered headlines for all the wrong reasons as of late
Swift dreams of rap gig
Taylor Swift would agree to sing the chorus on a rap track “in a heartbeat”. The pretty blonde is known for her catchy pop tunes, including smash hit We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
A degree of indifference to mediocre debut
What a strange choice of stories for the first instalment of TV3’s new current affairs show Third Degree (Wednesday, 8.30pm). Former rivals Duncan Garner and Guyon Espiner came across like stand-up comedians as they stood the entire show passing comments on the stories and taking blokesy swipes at each other that made them sound like Waldorf and Statler, the old guys from The Muppets
Moves to bypass gay sex film ‘ban’
The producer of “banned” gay sex film I Want Your Love has defied the Australian censors, claiming the movie’s global release on Monday via web-based video-on-demand services represented a way “to bypass the gatekeepers” and render them irrelevant. Classification Australia’s refusal to grant the film exemption from classification – which would have allowed it to screen to adult audiences at three queer film festivals around the country – has drawn criticism from Hollywood actor James Franco and attracted worldwide media attention.