Froth and substance Nov 17, 2009
Angliss head chef David Williamson and Badenoch have designed the menu, which will accompany beers from four of the country's top amateur brewers, including Irishman Geoff Daly, from Melbourne. For a population raised to view beer as little more than cold, wet and fizzy, it remains to be seen whether it can ever come close to the ubiquity of wine at the nation's dining tables. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Australia kicks on globally Sep 25, 2009
It's Western Australia versus Victoria and, in a rare acting role, the great playwright David Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the film in collaboration with Peter Weir, plays a lanky Victorian ruckman whom the West Australians can't budge. It was a great scene, combining Australia's brave digger spirit with our carefree love of sport and, in particular, our home-grown game Australian rules. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Greg Baum Playwright remains true to his football faith. Read more Sep 12, 2009
In the lecture, legendary playwright David Williamson would relive his Melbourne boyhood and youth, his attachment to Collingwood and his thrill as an 11-year-old to watch Rose's ''virtuoso' second quarter in the 1953 grand final, founding a Magpies premiership. He would remember other Saturday afternoons, standing in the outer at Victoria Park on a fruit box brought by his father, thrilling to victories, crying at defeats. (The Age, Australia)
Williamson comes to party again for Ensemble Sep 10, 2009
David Williamson at the Ensemble ... Among them is David Williamson's Rhinestone Rex & Miss Monica, a story of the unlikely relationship between a classical musician and a retired country and western singer, which will have its world premiere next September ... David Williamson at the Ensemble. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Join the club: writers honour one of their own Aug 29, 2009
Flattering'' David Williamson with his writers' guild portrait ... DAVID WILLIAMSON has kept his sense of humour ... Flattering'' … David Williamson with his writers' guild portrait. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hindsight has not cleared the vision of an atrocity Aug 19, 2009
The latest example of this genre is Robert Connolly's film Balibo, with a screenplay by David Williamson and Connolly. The film is loosely based on Jill Jolliffe's book Cover-Up, recently reissued under the title Balibo. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Balibo verdict: truth, drama and tragedy Aug 16, 2009
Connolly and his co-writer David Williamson claim they relied on the book Cover-up by journalist Jill Joliffe, which is a fine book, but the film barely resembles it. Nor does it reflect the revelations about DFA officials in the book Death in Balibo, by Australian National University academic Des Ball and Sydney Morning Herald journalist Hamish McDonald, which reveals how senior officials in the Jakarta embassy, Malcolm Dan and Allan Taylor, received detailed briefings on Indonesia's plan to... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
When press comes to shove, they're the reel deal Aug 12, 2009
Connolly abandoned an early script by David Williamson that had explored the lives of the five young men in favour of writing in East's oft-forgotten story. It was the playwright's second foray into covering events on the archipelago. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pearson's ABC Bligh mutiny Jul 17, 2009
Those who have gone to Woolloomooloo to see it include the film director Bruce Beresford, the playwright David Williamson, the writer Helen Garner and the TV producer Peter Faiman. REES IN LOTUS POSE. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A stage they're going through May 31, 2009
Even an icon such as David Williamson can complain of neglect, as he recently did, when he lamented the Sydney Theatre Company's apparent championing of "new writing and new theatre, capital-T theatre". A decade or so ago, a range of mid-level companies such as Anthill, the Woolly Jumpers, West and Arena operated their own spaces. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Back in his element, where families clash May 13, 2009
Perfect partners David Williamson and Sandra Bates on the set of Let The Sunshine ... An old friend has given David Williamson a new home and new energy ... As he gazes at the fish schooling beneath the piers of the Ensemble Theatre, David Williamson looks like a man in his element. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
DVD Review: Peter Weir's Gallipoli May 3, 2009
Screenwriter David Williamson stars in a cameo role during a football game in Egypt. Archy Hamilton [Mark Lee] is an idealistic 18-year-old stockman trained by his uncle, Jack [Bill Kerr], to become a sprinter. (Suite101.com)
King William I of England Mar 16, 2009
David Williamson Kings and Queens of Britain Webb & Bower 1991. The copyright of the article King William I of England in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
Study highlights teen obesity risks Mar 5, 2009
Since most people gain weight as they age, the men who were overweight in their teens may well have gone on to become obese as adults, so their deaths may actually reflect risks of obesity, not overweight, said Dr. David Williamson, a visiting professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health who has studied the effects of obesity on health. Smoking is widely acknowledged to be the single most important cause of preventable deaths and disease, he noted. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Plan to open GVR to condos on hold Feb 19, 2009
GVR Executive Director Anndrea Blackshear said the condos are part of The Lodge at Canoa Ranch, whose developer, Fairfield Homes president David Williamson, asked GVR in 2005 to remove the property from GVR and to prevent and condo owners from entering into GVR.. At a meeting with Blackshear and Fiscal Affairs Committe chairman Leon Lies in January, Williamson requested that the property be brought back into GVR because the facilities would be an incentive for buyers, Blackshear said. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
