Articles...
Apr 1 2008
DITH PRAN was the kindly-faced photo-journalist whose story was told in the Oscar-winning film, The Killing Fields....
Mar 31 2008
SOME people achieved much in their lives, winning awards for this and that and sitting on all sorts of committees, pontificating on everything important to the world....
Mar 28 2008
THERE was something mean in the cold stare of his blue eyes, which suggested the cut of steel. But this worked well for the man, whose shadow stretched across the big screen at a time when the princes of Hollywood were riding high....
Mar 27 2008
HE WAS one of the “Invincibles”, but he was also a modest man of slight stature with a wry view of the world, rooted in his love of cricket, a game whose duration allows for a little philosophy as well as supreme dedication....
Mar 26 2008
THE presence of the tall man, whose white hair was thin on top but always trimmed above the collar and ears, will be cherished for a long time....
Mar 25 2008
NEIL ASPINALL began his career as The Beatles’ van driver – and steered the band’s career and legacy over some 40 years....
Mar 24 2008
HE CAME from a little country and saw through his boy’s eyes that its culture was threatened from outside....
Mar 20 2008
HE WAS the bespectacled and bald prophet with a beaming smile, who travelled a distant land in a wheelchair, but had taken people on journeys way beyond our puny world....
Mar 19 2008
HIS parents made fine ice cream the Italian way and they were passionate about their work, but the boy was the teller of stories, the dreamer, who became a master of modern cinema....
Mar 18 2008
SHE had everything a rock musician could want – long legs, a short skirt, a come-hither pout, a rich dad and a boarding school voice....
