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When Aboriginal people appeared in a 1950 film they were asked to invent dialogue. Now a spotlight is shining on the tale they told
By Douglas Smith

Bitter Springs was one of the first mainstream stories to challenge the right of settlers to take Indigenous land. A translation project has revealed the ‘creativity and genius’ of its Anangu extras

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/25/aboriginal-extras-1950-film-bitter-springs-translation-ntwnfb

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Anthony LaPaglia: ‘There is not a role I didn’t get that I ever gave more than four hours of grievance to – even Tony Soprano’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/25/anthony-lapaglia-10-chaotic-questions-interview #Film #Television #Culture #AustralianFilm #TelevisionRadio #AutobiographyAndMemoir #Books #AustraliaNews #DonaldTrump #JohnLandis

Anthony LaPaglia: ‘There is not a role I didn’t get that I ever gave more than four hours of grievance to – even Tony Soprano’
By Sian Cain

The actor on surviving 2000s network television in Without a Trace, the role that made him take Brad Pitt seriously, and leaving the US to ‘ride out Trump’

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/25/anthony-lapaglia-10-chaotic-questions-interview

#Film #Television #Culture #Australianfilm #Televisionradio #Autobiographyandmemoir #Books #Australianews #DonaldTrump #JohnLandis #TheGuardian #SianCain