The Godfather: Peter Corris on impressionists
The impulse to mimic famous actors and singers, to do impressions of their voices and mannerisms, is a compulsion with some people, including me. It’s an impulse to be...
Read MoreThe impulse to mimic famous actors and singers, to do impressions of their voices and mannerisms, is a compulsion with some people, including me. It’s an impulse to be...
Read MoreI recently compiled a list of the countries I’ve been to since leaving Australia for the first time at the age of 25. This was probably about the average age to travel...
Read MoreWhen I was about 35, with three children of my own, I decided to stop calling my mother ‘Mum’. Henceforth I called her Jo, as all her contemporaries did. She was then...
Read MoreI frequent four pubs in Newtown. There are different reasons for my visiting them and each has a different atmosphere. Known colloquially as the ‘Marly Bar’, the public...
Read MoreAfter a lapse of quite a few years I’ve joined a gym again. My first gym was in Wollongong about 20 years ago. I’d broken a bone in my hand, couldn’t play golf and...
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