A wonderfully Australian report by ‘The Age’…WHAT could be more evocative of Australia than actor Hugh Jackman, who is from Australia, taking a 6am dip at Bondi Beach, which is in Australia, before steeling himself for the world premiere this week of the highly-anticipated epic film Australia?
Yesterday Jackman was chilling out at Bondi ahead of the red-carpet launch of director Baz Luhrmann’s latest offering, which co-stars another Australian, Nicole Kidman, in Sydney on Tuesday night.
…Jackman has just returned from the US, where he has been promoting the epic film — the most expensive ever made in this country. Between spruiking engagements — including on a special Australia-themed edition of Oprah, complete with red dusty backdrop — he found time to attend the Country Music Awards, where he presented a gong with Kidman, whose hubby Keith Urban performed at the event.
…While reports have circulated that the $US130 million ($A200 million) movie is in trouble, with 20th Century Fox wanting the ending reshot, Oprah was in no doubt about its emotional kick.
…Her reading recommendation can skyrocket a book to the top of The New York Times best-seller list, while her declaration early in the year that Barack Obama was The One is regarded as a watershed in his ****aign for the White House.
In the film, which hits cinemas on November 26, Kidman plays an English aristocrat who journeys to northern Australia and an outback station she has inherited.
…Luhrmann, meanwhile, has categorically denied reports about problems with the film’s ending, telling the Los Angeles Times he wrote six endings and shot three.
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