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Reel Talk: Anaconda offers up nostalgia, in-jokes and one very large snake
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (33+ words) The so-bad-it's-good cult classic gets a self-aware reboot with plenty of laughs, nostalgia and a giant snake, but it struggles to reach the delirious heights of the original....
Pat Finn: Friends, Seinfeld, The Middle actor dies after cancer battle aged 60
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (265+ words) Pat Finn, a veteran television actor best known for starring in The Middle, Friends and Seinfeld, has died after a prolonged cancer battle. He was 60. Finn passed away on Monday at 10.30pm (US time), surrounded by family at his Los Angeles…...
HIP Company ba-rocks Christmas celebration
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (418+ words) Forty years a journalist, David Cusworth is an award-winning sub-editor, arts reviewer and keen musician. A graduate from Durham University in the UK with honours in modern history, he has worked at The West Australian and The Sunday Times since…...
Comedian collapses, admits taking drugs from stranger
2+ week, 2+ day ago (197+ words) Comedian Andy Dick was found unresponsive on a Hollywood street this week following an apparent overdose. Emergency responders confirmed to the outlet that the man involved was not taken to hospital. Speaking with TMZ after the incident, Dick insists he…...
Playwright Stoppard dies at the age of 88
3+ week, 6+ day ago (249+ words) Playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, has died at the age of 88. The writer - known for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia and the film Shakespeare In Love…...
Hughesy brings new comedy show to Kalgoorlie-Boulder
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (230+ words) Tegan Guthrie has worked for the Kalgoorlie Miner since 2012, starting as a cadet journalist. Having grown up in the community herself, she has a keen interest in community issues and shining a spotlight on the positive work being done within…...
Sport and theatre merge for gripping ride
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (400+ words) Perth-raised, New York-based actor Connor Delves anticipated that one day he would have a life-changing project, finding it in one-man show Cadel: Lungs On Legs....
Why humour in the workplace is anything but unprofessional
4+ week, 1+ day ago (262+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. There is real value in working with people who make you laugh Not the…...
Clown doctors celebrate 25 years of laughter at PCH
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (282+ words) Perth's clown doctors are celebrating 25 years of bringing laughter and relief to children in WA's paediatric hospitals, having begun their rounds at Princess Margaret Hospital in December 2000. Sporting red noses, crazy hair and pockets full of silly gadgets, this team…...
Conman's colourful life 'set to become Netflix show"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (302+ words) Conman Peter Foster hopes to expand his reputation beyond a long history of scams with a Netflix series about his life as he fights multiple fraud charges. Notorious conman Peter Foster is pursuing a "very honest" Netflix series about his…...