If you thought Robert DeNiro was menacing and and just plain wrong when playing the role of Max Cady, especially in that memorable scene where he asks actress Juliette Lewis, playing the underage Danielle in the remake of “Cape Fear”, let’s just remember that he was playing the role originally created by Robert Mitchum. One of the greatest film noir actors ever, Robert Mitchum had a disdain for Hollywood pretentiousness and would have had for breakfast some of the pomposity a

Was watching something or another the other day and thought to myself, “Have we run out of ideas?” Did every creative idea that became reality run out of steam maybe twenty years ago and, like life itself, is this all one rerun- the music, the advertising, the inspiration to dare to dream, your heart knowing when you have fallen in love, and also knowing when you have fallen out of love and when love takes a backseat to things that are puerile? Or, unlike Alice, did we stop b

SCORING GOALS, PETE GOES GLOBAL… Whatever anyone might think of him, it’s darn difficult to ignore Peter V’Landys, especially because he appears to be travelling under the radar and as they say in Media Speak, is expanding his reach. There are those well into the Australian sporting arena who no longer see him as the “racing supremo” of Racing New South Wales. Yes, he’s still guiding the Everest juggernaut, but he’s also somewhat like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Was he actually on