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Bernardo Bertolucci: director’s passion near obsession
Bertolucci was regarded as a master craftsman who devised ravishing palettes as the backdrop for emotional torments.
- by Harrison Smith
Architect committed to conservation helped shaped Melbourne
Willys (Alice) Rosamond Keeble, was a remarkable and unique person. As an architect, she maintained the passions and convictions from her student days in the 1960s. Her endeavours included low energy architecture, social housing reforms, urban conservation, and building restoration. Though not seeking self-recognition, she has left a remarkable legacy of work that has enhanced the character of Melbourne and beyond. For this and her amazing work ethic, she was highly regarded by her peers.
- by Nigel Lewis
Lawyer was scholar of public administration and the race track
On Saturday afternoons he could be seen strolling across the Newman quad wearing a sky-blue jacket with binoculars around his neck, on his way to that day’s race meeting.
Screenwriter William Goldman a towering craftsman of the movies
Butch and a female companion riding a bicycle to the tune of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head became one of the most memorable sequences in 1960s cinema.
Sydney actor who played Frank Pickle in Vicar of Dibley
Bluthal was one of Spike Milligan’s collaborators since they had first met in Australia in the 1950s
Nanoscience advocate broadcast first TV in Australia
Hooke followed in the footsteps of his father, Sir Lionel, who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton’s voyage to the Antarctic in 1914 as the wireless operator on the Aurora.
Korean POW Gordon Harvey one our best RAAF pilots
The first Australian captured in the Korean war, Harvey was a prisoner of war for nearly three years - 45 days of it in a two by one-metre hole as punishment for escaping - and a little recognised participant in one of the war's most enduring controversies.
From war in Lithuania to production design in Australia
Paul was born in Lithuania on 23 December 1925 and given the name Rimgaudas Povilas Četkauskas. He was the first of three boys born to Povilas and Adele Četkauskas; Eugene was born in 1929, followed by Algimantas in1931. From the age of three to 10, he lived in a small town not far from Klaipeda, Lithuania's only seaport. Paul attended the local primary school, where he showed an aptitude for languages. The first two languages he learnt were Lithuanian and German – this area of the country had once been a part of Prussia – but he would go on to learn Russian when Russia occupied Lithuania in 1940 and English before he emigrated to Australia. Throughout his life, he was fluent in these four languages, but he also had a smattering of many other European languages, including French, Croatian and Polish.