Star TURNS
SYDNEY: Oscar-winning star Cate Blanchett and playwright husband Andrew Upton are to leave their roles as co-artistic directors of Australia’s most prestigious theatre company.
The couple, who are credited with turning around the Sydney Theatre Company’s finances during their tenure which started in 2008, will step down at the end of next year.
“It was always their intention to only stay for two terms,” STC chairman David Gonski said on Saturday.
“We asked Cate and Andrew to stay on but we respect their decisions to leave in two years’ time to pursue other professional interests.” GUESSING, Austria: It was another chance to tuck into a schnitzel. But Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit to a small eastern Austrian town had a more compelling purpose.
The actor is proud of his record of greening California while governor. So his visit to Guessing, which meets its energy needs through renewables, was fitting.
In Guessing and California, “the world has already become a better one”, he told fans and dignitaries yesterday.
After a lunch of wiener schnitzel, Schwarzenegger toured the village’s energy plants, describing his push for green energy as “my crusade”. PARK CITY, Utah: Richard Gere once saw Utah from horseback while moving cattle, but his trip to the Sundance Film Festival to premiere
Arbitrage was his first visit to the state.
The 62-year-old actor said he was moving cattle through Nevada with friends and “we rode up to a ridgeline and they pointed, ‘That’s Utah there’”.
Gere was in Park City to promote Arbitrage, a thriller about the lure of money and power and how it affects people’s personal values.
Directed by Nicholas Jarecki, the film also stars Susan Sarandon, Nate Roth and Laetitia Casta. MIAMI : An unlikely home improvement show hosted by 1990s rapper Vanilla Ice is back for a second season. During the 13-episode run of
The Vanilla Ice Project on the DIY Network, the rapper and his crew will take a dilapidated Florida mansion and bring it into the 21st century with technology that isn’t on the market yet.
The rapper’s passion for real estate began in the early 1990s, after his hit Ice Ice Baby made him a star. He first bought a home on Miami Beach’s exclusive Star Island, then others in Los Angeles, New York and Utah which he later sold for a large profit. LOS ANGELES: Philip Vannatter, the detective who was a lead investigator in the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, has died in southern California aged 70.
He was among the first detectives on the scene at former gridiron star OJ Simpson’s mansion after the stabbing deaths of Simpson’s wife and her friend, Goldman.
Vannatter testified at the murder trial, at which Simpson was acquitted.
In 1977, Vannatter conducted the investigation that led to the arrest of film director Roman Polanski on charges that he drugged and had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.