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  • Isla Fisher had near to death experience on sets of Now You See Me

    Australian actress Isla Fisher, who will be seen in Louis Leterrier's Now You See Me, recently revealed her near to death experience on the sets. Fisher is playing the role of an escape artist in the movie and is seen doing death-defying stunts, including her main stunt inside a water tank. "On the third day, in one of the last shots, there was a problem with the safety and my chain caught ...

  • Harris picks out chief weapon Starc to rip through English top-order at Ashes

    Australian bowler Ryan Harris has singled out his pace counterpart Mitchell Starc as the team's potentially ' chief weapon' for the Ashes series in England. According to Harris, the Australians had been training with the ball that would be used for the series, with the bowlers achieving significant swing, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Harris further said that if Starc kept going at his ...

  • Flintoff to return to cricket duty with yesteryear stars T20 clash with Oz

    Former England captain Andrew Flintoff is set to make a comeback to cricket with two Twenty20 matches involving yesteryear English and Australian cricket stars, with the back-to-back Ashes series underway. Flintoff, who has been victorious in his one-bout boxing career, which he adopted following his retirement from cricket, will be back on more familiar territory and will join former Test ...

  • Racist Oz broadcaster Morrow spared the sack but banned from marquee events this season

    Veteran Australian sports commentator David Morrow will not be sacked by ABC Radio for his racist remarks, but will be banned from working during this season's marquee rugby league events so that he can complete training and cultural awareness programs. Morrow, Rugby League caller and the voice of National Rugby League (NRL) for ABC Radio, was suspended by the national broadcaster management ...

  • Prince Harry names himself ginger queen

    Prince Harry dubbed himself the "Ginger Queen" in a bowling match against Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia on Friday. The 28-year-old royal, who snuck with Imbruglia into a bowling alley to have some fun, mocked his own strawberry-blond hair when he inputted 'Ginger Queen' as his name on the electronic scoreboard, the Daily Star reported. Later Sam Branson, 27, playboy son of billionaire ...

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Demon Seed

Demon Seed

When "Demon Seed" was first written as a novel by Dean Koontz in 1973, and then released as a film in 1977, much of its premise was far-reaching science fiction. The idea of people living in houses almost completely controlled by a computer; the thought of a supercomputer with artificial in ... ...

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  • Oz cricketer apologises for calling woman accusing rugby star Teo of assault as psycho bad news

    An Australian cricketer has offered an apology for a tweet in which he called a woman accusing Australian rugby league star Ben Te'o of assaulting her, as 'bad news' and 'psycho'. Following on the footsteps of the David Warner Twitter fiasco, batsman Chris Lynn, who plays for the domestic Queensland Bulls, became the centre of another firestorm following the tweet in which he insulted the woman ...

  • Twitter ranting Warner calls for ban on IPL spot-fixers

    Australian Test batsman David Warner has said that the Indian players caught in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal should be banned from cricket. In a candid interview with Malcolm Conn, one of the journalists, whom Warner insulted on Twitter along with another journalist Robert Craddock for an article by Craddock on the seedier side of the IPL, the cricketer appeared to move ...

  • Keep the faith PM tells Sydney Labor MPs

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told a forum packed with western Sydney Labor MPs and ALP candidates for September's election not to lose ...

  • Rebels Nick Phipps hopes to end on high

    Waratah-in-waiting Nick Phipps isn't looking forward to playing his current team the Melbourne Rebels in next year's Super Rugby competition for two reasons. Firstly, the Rebels players have become some of his best mates. Secondly, Melbourne proved with their upset 24-22 win over NSW at AAMI Park that they are no longer the tournament easybeats. It was a self-assured, high-energy ...

  • Relay for recognition to start Sorry Day

    AFL legend Michael Long will kick-off a nation-wide relay in Melbourne on Sunday to raise awareness about constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Journey to Recognition relay begins at Federation Square at 9.30am (AEST) and coincides with national Sorry Day, which acknowledges the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people including members of the stolen generation. Earlier ...

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