Hugh Jackman

Dear Hugh Jackman,

AND he's got a great tan. Pic: News.com.au

Ok, I get it… you’re an outrageously talented, actor, singer and dancer, Hollywood, Broadway and TV über-star. You’re an incredibly devoted husband to Deborra-Lee and loving father to Oscar and Ava.

You’re a generous philanthropist — supporting and raising awareness of numerous charities and community projects.

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  • pete says:

    06:30pm | 15/01/13

    I get the feeling in our dystopian future Hugh Jackman will be delivering messages from the elites on videoscreens throughout our cities. Read more »

  • Outgrid says:

    05:31pm | 15/01/13

    Aussie sheilas, GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR. Oh, and stop with the entitled insistance for other people to improve themselves. If you want something out of life you should get it yourself rather than wait for a man to do it for you. Read more »

 

He’s handsome, approachable and talented, so little wonder Hugh Jackman is our most popular celebrity.

The wolverine: an Australian marsupial that drinks iced tea. Photo: The Daily Telegraph

But while they’re clearly the ingredients for a successful acting career, they’re don’t necessarily make you the best next face for an Australian tourism campaign.

US travel expert, G Adventures founder, Bruce Poon Tip, however, is adamant that it is. He reckons the all-singing, all-dancing Aussie star is exactly the right candidate to replace Paul Hogan, circa 1980s.

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  • marley says:

    06:23pm | 16/10/12

    OK, I’m a new Aussie, who’s lived in a lot of places, travelled a fair bit, and seen what works and what doesnt. Australia has enormous disadvantanges as a tourist destination. It’s a helluva long way from the countries with money, and it’s bloody expensive to get here, never mind… Read more »

  • stephen says:

    04:17pm | 16/10/12

    ‘Tin Poop.’ Cory Bernardi’s can’t get any more shrill. Read more »

 

Now the movie Australia was long. Really long. Which might explain why when I saw it at the cinema the guy down the row not only answered two phone calls, but smoked two cigarettes inside the cinema during the flim.

Hey fella, the off button's on the top right

I wish now The Drover had turned his head from the dusty plain, stepped down through the silver screen into the cinema and said to the guy what I was too shy to say: turn it off you selfish idiot! (Just to clarify this Drover dream sequence of mine was all about mobile phone etiquette, nothing else, really.)

Harry Connick Jr, however, would have been as useless as me. Sitting there wishing the battery would go flat but politely soldiering on “in character”.

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  • Michael says:

    04:09pm | 30/09/09

    Any one that is talking on a phone and smoking in a cinema is looking for a fight, as much as you would want to tell them off, I’d avoid doing it unless you want to fight too. Read more »

  • Patrick says:

    02:37pm | 30/09/09

    Australia. What a crappy movie. Why does whats her face continue to call him “drover” from the beggining to the end of the flim? Was his name actually “drover”, or did it never occur to her to actually ask his name? Read more »

 

So Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig are on stage performing A Steady Rain and an audience member’s mobile rings. You can read the story here.

After seeing The Boy From Oz I think Jackman is far more suited to the live environment of the theatre than the silver screen, and this shows his gift for handling the things that happen in live performances.

But the real question is: how does someone still forget to turn off their mobile in a theatre?

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  • H says:

    11:00am | 30/09/09

    I too have been in a movie where a young “lady” answered her phone which was ringing loudly and proceeded to loudly tell her friend all about the movie and the latest gossip. She followed up on her performance by treating the packed theatre to a show of her and… Read more »

  • Ben says:

    03:14pm | 29/09/09

    hugh jackman, cate blanchett…......OVEREXPOSED…...enough Read more »

 

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