Reclusive bright star emerges at Oscars

AS HOLLYWOOD geared up for the Academy Awards, Australia€™s most reclusive nominee has emerged to talk about her work.

Movies - Monday, March 1

Three Kings (1999) Movie Extra, 8.30pm

...AND ANOTHER THING

HOW dare Apple lord it over Woolies over the use of an apple symbol? Even creationists believe the apple came 6000 years before Steve Jobs. Ralph Judd, Blackburn North

Hidden Gems

Treasure-troves are found in the most unlikely places. And these ones are stacked with great bits and pieces.

Treasure Fever! Schooling Around Book 1

Andy Griffiths

Merry Band Digs Into British Heart

APPROPRIATELY enough, ABC's British archaeology series Time Team is buried in an obscure timeslot early on Tuesday evenings. Finding it is like excavating hidden treasure in your back garden. This charming program is a jubilant celebration of British landscape and human life across the ages. It gets so close to the actual process of digging up erstwhile societies that viewers will almost feel the dirt under their fingernails as they look on, enthralled.

Seven Sides - Only One Pot Of Gold

Players around the country may have been photographed in recent weeks with gold bullion and piles of cash, but the Club World Championship qualifiers, which kick off tomorrow, remain a hidden treasure in the eyes of the game's hierarchy.

It's No Joke, But A Well Deserved Tribute

It's nice to know that a literary award can still go to someone who not only deserves it, but also hasn't been trying to get it. Melbourne's hidden treasure Kris Hemensley isn't exactly a shrinking violet, but he's a genuinely modest man who hasn't seen himself as a career poet for a long time. His 20-odd books are all out of print, it's been years since he tried to get out a new collection, and when his work still pops up in magazines and anthologies, it comes as a complete surprise to him.

Action Afoot To Stop The Tarnish On A Hidden Treasure

It was quite like old times, carefree times when they were children, just messing about. Manly Dam at dawn. Dave "Parso" Parsons and John "Gibbo" Gibbons splashing out among the black ducks into the still, warm water. And their mate, Max "Riddo" Riddington - sidelined after having a tooth removed - shouting encouragement from the shore.

Looted Treasures Find A Way Home

For more than a generation a small gilded urn said to contain Buddha's bones was locked in a family warehouse in Japan, seen only by the wealthy collector who owned it. The warehouse stored hundreds of other antiquities, all from South Korea, many of them dug up from graves. Only after the collector died and his sons got into a dispute over his estate did the existence of the hidden treasure become widely known.

Kincumba Reserve Fights Off Suburbia

THERE are many places of obvious beauty on the Central Coast but one little-known, hidden treasure is Kincumba Mountain Reserve.

Kids Have Say On Latest Books

PINGU'S DAY AT KINDERGARTEN ABC Bookspb, $9.95 I liked it because it was about going to kindergarten. They made hats. Pingu first tried kindergarten. The seal saved his hat. I liked it because I could read it perfect. PINGU AND THE HIDDEN TREASURE ABC Bookspb, $9.95 I liked it whe

Notes On Old Pages

HUNTER bibliophiles dusted off their old books on the weekend in search of hidden treasure. Bookworms queued at Wallalong to present dealer and valuer Leo Berkelouw with their books in the hope of striking it rich with a rare publication. Mr Berkelouw, a fifth-generation antiquarian bookdeal

Treasure Map For New Millennium

WITH the start of the new financial year it's time to consider planning your business growth. We have often linked building a successful business to setting sail to search for hidden treasure. You would not think of launching your ship, putting the lives of your crew and yourself at risk, or ris

Monument To Athena

BENEATH the blue sky of Attica lies a hidden treasure-trove dedicated to the mythological goddess Athena. Classical treasures of the ancient Acropolis in Athens, hidden in storage for decades, will be unveiled to the public for the first time in a new museum. Work on the new 8,000sq/m neoclas

Sponges A Hidden Treasure Of The Sea

WANDERING along Australia's southern coastline after a storm or searching through the trash of a trawler's net, may reveal hidden treasures. But for Associate Professor Rob Capon there is something far more valuable in this flotsam and jetsam than is visible to the human eye. "The fish crust

Hidden Treasures Get A New Home At The Quay

Not often does a significant hidden treasure emerge in the 1990s. Such secrets are more the domain of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate novel Treasure Island. But, from April, forgotten treasure dating to 1882 will be revealed in Sydney. More than 110,000 Aboriginal and Pacific Island artefacts, he

$1.8m ... And He's All Yours

CLUBS who are short of forwards, we'll let you in on a secret: David Fairleigh is a free agent in a few months. Fairleigh is a bit of a hidden treasure in the league market. Unlike most players he doesn't have a manager, so he doesn't figure on the free-agent lists that do the rounds of the clubs

Swords And Santa

Santa Claus meets Long John Silver in this year's Christmas at the Opera House pantomime, Treasure Island. Armed with a top secret map, cabin boy Jim, with Captain Smollet and the beautiful Brooke at his side, encounters adventures aplenty in his race against the clock to reach the hidden treasure

Win Hidden Treasure

CYBER sleuths pay attention. CyberSurfari '96 is a treasure hunt with hidden clues, puzzles and cool Web sites. To get in on the action you must visit the CyberSurfari Web page http://www.spa.org/ cybersurfari. Contestants are challenged to complete 75 out of 100 puzzles. There are prizes (for