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Tottie Goldsmith says she didn’t have the best male role models growing up.

My teen crush was Michael Jackson. He told my brother I ‘looked like a boy’

Performer Tottie Goldsmith says that despite rubbing shoulders with many famous men, she’s had a “tough run” in her romantic relationships.

  • Jane Rocca

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Rachel Griffiths: “I didn’t go to drama school – I got a teaching degree … I’d do everything I could to build some kind of solid [financial] base.”

Rachel Griffiths: What I learnt from Julia Roberts, Johnny Depp and sex workers

The actor has been dazzling audiences for 35 years. Her latest drama series is Madam.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Mandy McElhinney as Antonia (left) and Emma Harvie, as Margherita (right) in No Pay. No Way.

Who would have thought a cost of living crisis play could be so funny?

Our reviewers give their verdict on acts all over town from the No Pay, No Way, Carmen, Chris Isaak and Grease.

  • John Shand, Peter McCallum, Harriet Cunningham, Chantal Nguyen and Shamim Razavi
Actor Annelise Hall starring in the Australian production of Grease, Capital Theatre.

‘An inspiration’: Sydney’s newest Sandy pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John

Grease, the musical Olivia Newton-John made famous, opens for the first time in over a decade at the Capitol Theatre.

  • Helen Pitt
Brooke Shields is that rarest of beasts: a former child star who grew up to be a healthy and successful adult.

‘I posed naked at 10, now I’m telling my story’: Brooke Shields

At 57, the actor and mother of two tells how she broke free of the alcoholic mother who turned her into a child star.

  • Hadley Freeman
Olivia Newton-John has died at age 73.

‘Supernatural’ and ‘magic’ Olivia Newton-John farewelled at memorial

Delta Goodrem, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman helped farewell Olivia Newton-John at her state memorial.

  • Martin Boulton
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Scientology leader David Miscavige.

Scientology leader evades legal service in Australian trafficking case

Scientology’s leader has avoided being served with a summons on 14 occasions as part of a human trafficking case brought by three Australians

  • Ben Schneiders
Actors who revived their careers after a slump.

Back from the career graveyard: the greatest actor comebacks

With his new film, Brendan Fraser has the chance to join Robert Downey Jr, John Travolta, Drew Barrymore and others who have had a second chance.

  • Garry Maddox
Marie Osmond (left) and Carrie Fisher (right) were both considered for Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy.

The one that I wanted: The Grease casting choices we almost got to see

It’s impossible to imagine Grease without Olivia Newton-John as Sandy. But she wasn’t the first choice – in fact, the studio imagined a very different musical.

  • Andrew Hornery
Iconic but too problematic? Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease.

Yes, Grease was deeply problematic – but it was ahead of its time, too

As tributes flow in for Olivia Newton-John following her recent death and the 1978 film climbs its way up streaming viewer lists, re-visiting the film was nothing short of bizarre.

  • Katy Hall