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Jacki Weaver: ‘I can be a cow, but I had a very polite English mother who taught me to be kind’

The Observer 05 May 2022
TimDelaney. I didn’t meet her as she had died. Usually, I do a lot of research. In this case all I did was read the script and use my imagination ... bumble1. I love them both. Mothers shouldn’t favour one child ... hhhhssss. It was amazing ... I thought ... I was part of it in the early 70s when it was having a renaissance with people like Tom Burstall and Peter Weir ... .
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Sigrid Thornton, star of Fiddler on the Roof, reveals her near-miss with politics

Canberra Times 06 Dec 2015
He'd read them all ... Family. Culture ... She and her husband, the film producer Tom Burstall (whose father, Tim, was a pioneer of the Australian New Wave, directing Stork and Alvin Purple among others), have lived in this house in inner-suburban Melbourne for more than 30 years ... With Tom Burlinson in her breakthrough role, in The Man From Snowy River.
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There was no restraint in Judy Garland's life, says Sigrid Thornton

Sydney Morning Herald 01 Sep 2015
Sigrid Thornton says she would have leapt at the chance to play Judy Garland "even if she only came on and sneezed". She rates playing Garland in Peter Allen ... "Bridget in Great Expectations was a favourite because I got to work with my husband [Tom Burstall], who wrote it, and my late father-in-law [Tim Burstall], who directed it ... Q ... Q ... .
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UK indies head to China

Screen Daily 23 Apr 2014
A host of UK indies are in China for a China-UK TV summit. A trade mission comprising 22 UK TV indies and Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham is in China for the first ever China-UK TV summit ... Pact chief executive John McVay said of this week’s event ... James Burstall, CEO, Argonon. Tom Brisley, Arrow Media. Andrew Shaw, MD, Attaboy TV ... Email Save ... .
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Wendy Hughes a force of nature who dazzled all

Canberra Times 14 Mar 2014
Thornton's husband, Tom Burstall (the son of the film director Tim Burstall and the founder of La Mama, Betty Burstall) is a man who has drunk down different kinds of stardom all his life but he talks about Hughes with a sort of hushed respect, a bit unusual in him ... Tim Burstall ...
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Standard Exploration Ltd. Announces Results of Annual General and Special Meeting

StreetInsider 04 Jul 2013
Breakey, Tom MacKay, Peter Sider and Dale Burstall (the "New Board"), who have agreed, subject to regulatory approval, to act as directors of the Corporation until the next annual meeting or until a successor has been appointed.
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La Mama founder nurtured talent

The Australian 24 Jun 2013
Everyone - not least her daughter-in-law Sigrid Thornton, wife of Betty's son Tom, the film producer - talks about Burstall as a great enabler, someone who would empower other people ... Burstall is survived by son Dan and his wife Barbara, their three children, and five great-grandchildren; and son Tom and his wife Thornton, and their two children.
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La Mama founder Betty Burstall dies

Canberra Times 17 Jun 2013
Betty Burstall photographed in 2005 with a painting by artist Charles Blackman, which he gave her 40 years earlier after she helped him out by paying for his dinner ... Betty Burstall, the former teacher who nurtured Melbourne's explosion of contemporary theatre in the 1960s and '70s, has died ... Burstall's son Tom said his mother imposed a few key rules.
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Remedy Productions Hires Endemol Exec to Boost Game Show Development

The Hollywood Reporter 08 Aug 2012
British indie TV label hires Tom Blakeson to bolster its format output and add mainstream quiz formatting to its youth output ... TV label Remedy Productions has brought in Tom Blakeson, the entertainment formats chief at Endemol's Remarkable Television to be its chief creative officer, beginning September.our editor recommends.
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Lunch with Hilary McPhee

Sydney Morning Herald 09 Feb 2012
It was in the McPhee Gribble offices in Fitzroy that she first encountered Tim Burstall, director of those ocker films Alvin Purple and Stork ... Burstall was married to Betty (who later founded La Mama) and had two sons, Dan and Tom ... McPhee wasn't a fan of Burstall's films - ''In the '70s I was feminist and thought they were tedious.
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Film pioneer diaries reveal bohemian life and rebellious streak

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 08 Feb 2012
Tim Burstall passed away in 2004 but this year will see the publication of his diaries that reveal insights in to the colourful life of the man who directed the famous film Alvin Purple ... TOM BURSTALL, SON ... BETTY BURSTALL, WIFE ... TOM BURSTALL ... BETTY BURSTALL ... BETTY BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL ... TOM BURSTALL.
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Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary

The Guardian 14 Jul 2010
Last year he published a completely revised edition of his major work, The Will ... Before coming to Britain, he had an interesting group of friends in Australia, notably the film-maker Tim Burstall, the potter Tom Sanders, the painters Charlie Blackman, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval – and Arthur Boyd, his closest friend for a good part of his life.
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Charming devils on horseback

Sydney Morning Herald 04 Dec 2008
Of course, you can't have polo without photogenic and photo-worthy guests, and those invited to Pennell's Pony Lounge marquee include Eddie and Carla McGuire, Alex and Heloise Waislitz, Sigrid Thornton and Tom Burstall, Brendan and Alex Fevola, Gary Ablett jnr and Lauren Phillips, Daniel MacPherson and Naomi Robson. Pennell loves the sport ... .
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Evans shirty with China as others abuse freedom of speech and privacy here

Sydney Morning Herald 09 May 2008
THERE is no politics in sport. Tell that to Cadel Evans, Nick D'Arcy and Sam Newman, who on the face of it have nothing in common - thank goodness - but, boy, do they know how to hit the headlines and touch political nerves ... A pity ... That is his right ... Tom Burstall, the husband of Sigrid Thornton, can stand tall after he yelled out ... .
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Eighties hit is 'worst song ever'

BBC News 21 Apr 2004
Australian director Burstall dies. Australian film director Tim Burstall, who made films that starred Hollywood actors Mel Gibson and Sam Neill, has died aged 76 after a stroke ... "Tim was a great conceptualiser and activist on behalf of the industry and enthusiastically took personal responsibility for its development," his son Tom Burstall said.

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