The decade which produced Rubik's Cube and the Sony Walkman may seem old-hat, but a new Australian exhibition dedicated to the 1980s is riding a wave of nostalgia for pre-digital days, its curator says. Peter Cox, who has put together 'The 80s are back' at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, says the generation that grew up watching "Dallas", playing Pac-Man ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Former INXS and Noiseworks singer Jon Stevens is being held in hospital after suffering complications following emergency open-heart surgery, his management company said on Thursday. The Australian rocker's manager Simon Lucas said the operation was carried out in a Sydney hospital about three weeks ago and was deemed a success. But 46-year-old Stevens' condition has deteriorated ...

In the beginning there was the word, and the word was "Action!" That's the sole cast-iron law of screenwriting - shit always has to happen - something anyone who's studied with the high priests of the Hollywood orthodoxy would never contest. So the mind, with its labyrinthine dead ends and stubborn loops, is tricky territory for cinema. Compared to its ...