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A Note To Anyone Who Watched Australian ‘Project Runway’

10:15AM Clem Bastow | Not having Foxtel anymore, I have unfortunately fallen out of the loop with all my favourite shows including Outrageous Celebrity Look-alike Behaviour Caught On Tape 2 and reruns of VH1’s 50 Least Metal Moments – and it also means I managed to completely miss Australia’s take on Project Runway in its entirety. This is a shame, as word on the street (i.e. from my friends with Foxtel) was that in the scheme of bought in reality franchises, it was actually pretty ace. Anyway, if you’ve been following it, then you’ll be pleased/shocked/disappointed/insert-emotion-here to hear that Julijana Grbac’s eponymous label, Grbac, took out the Runway crown. “To win this is my wildest dream, honestly, it’s cool,” the newlywed said. More »

Preemptive Australian Idol Round-Up: James Spargo Is Your New God

11:28AM Clem Bastow | After everyone enjoyed our first Australian Idol 2008 missive yesterday, I couldn’t stop watching the Idol promo – and, like many of you, became fascinated by the winning chap at the 0:27 mark, whose performance of the line “loving each other wholeheartedly” is sure to go down in the annals of Australian music as one of its greatest moments. Well, another Idol promo/teaser has surfaced that gives us a little more of an insight into this champion (as well as 23 of his fellow entrants; whatever). Ladies and gentlemen, at the 0:27 mark (again!) and 0:54, I give you James Spargo: More »

The Four Billies Elliot Now Have A Paperweight To Show Off To The School Bullies Who Said Dancing Is For Sissies

11:36AM Clem Bastow | Bless their ballet slippers cotton socks: the four young lads who each play the titular boy dancer in the stage musical version of Billy Elliot have taken out the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in A Musical. The little tackers beat musical theatre god Anthony Warlow as well as stiff competition from fellow nominees iOTA and Mitchell Butel to claim the prize. [T]he night went to Billy Elliot, the feel-good musical based on the popular movie from 2000 and featuring music by Elton John. The production was named best musical, while Genevieve Lemon won best female actor in a musical for her role as Mrs Wilkinson. Lochlan Denholm, Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton and Rhys Kosakowski were jointly awarded best actor in a musical for their alternating performances in the title role. Billy Elliot – which was the strong favourite with 11 nominations – also won awards for best lighting design, best choreography, best music direction and best direction. Well done, lads! Now we just have to work out which one will grow up to become a choreographer, which one will become a recording artist, which one will end up on Neighbours and which one will wait tables for ten years before being given a career reprise with a role as a psychotic hit man/pre-op transsexual kindergarten teacher/dinosaur in an AFI-winning comeback extravaganza. More »