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A.J. Jacobs' ambition to be a writer was hampered by one very severe deficiency: a bizarre childhood.

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AS A father of two boys and a proud South Australian, the parallels between director Scott Hicks' life and his latest film The Boys Are Back are hard to ignore.

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"The Boys Are Back," a sun-and-sorrow drenched story of love, loss and "free range" fatherhood starring Clive Owen, is an affectionate but sometimes terrifying tale of primal parenting in the hands of a Peter Pan of a dad.

The story: A divorced sportswriter struggles to deal with single parenthood when tragedy strikes.

Daily News Film Critic The Australian film industry's biggest asset seems to be its inexhaustible supply of adorable children.

Directed by Scott Hicks. Starring Clive Owen, Nicholas McAnulty and George MacKay.

After the success of "Shine" - the 1998 Down Under drama about a piano prodigy with a personality disorder - its director, Scott Hicks, was dispatched to Hollywood and went off on a busy run that kept him far afield for long stretches of time.

For Juliette Binoche , who lives and often works in Paris, the opportunity to star in a film that celebrates her city - and is called Paris , no less - was pretty much irresistible.

Images There's little trace of the debonair title character Owen played in "Croupier" , who runs a roulette wheel while keeping an eye out for dishonest gamblers; or of the mastermind bank robber who is 10 steps ahead of the cops in "Inside Man" or the corporate spy reveling in an illicit love affair with Julia Roberts in this year's "Duplicity." ...

We all must wonder how you get to be as debonair as Clive Owen , the man who made a bank robber disarmingly noble in Inside Man and played the gallant, gun-wielding protector of hookers in both Sin City and Shoot 'Em Up .

Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush, who won a Tony for his performance in the recent revival of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King , has found his latest stage project.

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Fresh off reports that he will be returning to the Australian stage next year in DIARY OF A MADMAN with Sydney's Company B, Variety reports today that Geoffrey Rush will star in the Australian premiere of "The Drowsy Chaperone," the first show of the Melbourne Theater Company's 2010 season.

Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush will return to the Sydney stage next year in a tribute to his old friend, director Neil Armfield.

Many people got to know him through the Oscar-winning film "Shine." Garnering a best actor statue for Geoffrey Rush, the film depicted the story of a musician educated under the rule of a despotic father and overcoming mental illness as well.

Netherlands born film director...Paul Cox. The bar brawl between Justin Hemmes and the local police over his George Street restaurant and club complex, Ivy, has been reignited with the release of the latest data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research on the state's most violent venues.

This talented, quirky performer has successfully made the transition from juvenile to adult feature roles.

ADG achievement award winners announced [Tue 01/09/2009 11:31:17] Press release from the ADG The Australian Directors Guild today announced the recipients of its four Achievement Awards to be presented next week.