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Hamish & Andy: The origin of Kylie's booty dance
Comedian duo Hamish Blake and Andy Lee interview Kylie Minogue in this excerpt from their Hamish & Andy radio show from 2012. Kylie talks about the origin of her famous booty dance, which is now...
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The Flash Mob – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey
This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an overview of Sydney’s ‘high life’ down through the decades from the Lord Mayor’s 1844 Fancy Dress Ball to dancing at the Trocadero and...
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Head On: Zembekiko dance
Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1998) tells the story of a 19-year-old Greek Australian youth, Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades), who struggles with his sexual identity and his Greek heritage. The film...
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Kylie as the Green Fairy in Moulin Rouge!
It was a clever choice by director Baz Luhrmann to cast Kylie in a cameo as the playful and seductive ‘Green Fairy’ in his epic musical Moulin Rouge! (2001). The scene illustrates the indelible mark...
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Happy Feet: 'I love gravity'
Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) has been expelled from the colony. His dancing upsets the elders, but he finds that Adelie penguins have a much more open attitude. His new best friends – five party-...
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Cadbury Crunchie: Exciting Biting (1959)
This is a 30-second black-and-white television advertisement from 1959 for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar. It features a group of performers, each holding a Crunchie bar, in a studio with a large...
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Golden Groovy Beautiful Crunchie
This TV commercial conjures up the 1960s par excellence, with a discotheque playing host to a young, groovy couple dancing under a glittering ball and eating Crunchie bars. The clip shows a couple...
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Dancing Sarong
A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes. The action freezes as the camera zooms in and...
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Harvie Krumpet: 'God is better than football'
As Harvie’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, his nursing home is visited by a church group, entertaining him with the song 'God is better than football, God is better than beer’. Harvie sees in his...
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