ANC’s Bollywood bandwagon
THE ANC has imported Bollywood bad boy Sanjay Dutt to headline a concert and manifesto launch in Chatsworth, Durban, on Sunday.
Crunch bites into local theatre productions
THEATRE impresarios and concert organisers are cutting down on big international shows as South Africans slash their entertainment budgets in response to the recession.
Curtain falls on show
IT’S final — the acclaimed Madame Zingara Theatre of Dreams is being liquidated.
William would have waggled his dagger
THE Bandit and the Beautiful Distraction head past countless signs advertising “striking genetics” to the land of giant mielie farmers in the continuing quest for a breakfast out west.
Film’s point dissolves in tears
ANGELINA Jolie turns on some serious waterworks in Changeling, a crime drama directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on a series of unhappy events that happened in 1930s Los Angeles, it’s one of those stories that is too bizarre not to be true.
Q&A With Danny Boyle
BRITISH director Danny Boyle dives into making movies with the same kind of exuberance many film fans feel standing in line to see them.
Face Off
WE ASK Napo Masheane to act out three scenarios.
Face Off Gallery
Tree hugger down to earth
AT ZOO Lake on a Wednesday afternoon, along with the usual smattering of local winos, power walkers and goofed-out teenagers, Morne du Plessis, The Times photographer Daniel Born and I are taking a walk.
Lookalike
“PEOPLE always say I look like hip- hop/R&B singer and songwriter Akon. I agree, because I’ve been told the same thing by quite a lot of people. I would love to meet him and ask him how he became famous,” says the unemployed 30-year-old.
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