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Bio. Ida Chionh, Ida Chionh |
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Ida Chionh. A food and travel journalist, author, cooking demonstrator and general bon vivant, Ida is also a keen arts enthusiast. ``Many years ago, when I was younger and slimmer, I was the third wife of the king of Siam in a production of The King and I in Singapore,'' she said. Now living in Melbourne, Ida has also appeared on television, with wok in one hand and a microphone in the other. ``Denise Drysdale enjoyed my spring rolls on Channel 7 and Meena Patak shared the secrets of her spice world with me on cable TV,'' Ida said. On the airwaves, she has spoken on matters artistic, gastronomic and global on ABC radio 774, SBS radio and is a regular guest on community radio Southern FM. Ida also writes for Leader Newspapers and has contributed restaurant reviews, travel tales and arts articles to The Age, Herald Sun, Royalauto and other publications in Australia and overseas. She wrote for Mietta's restaurant guides, The Little Red Book (a guide to Asian restaurants in Melbourne) and authored three books for children. Her latest book is a work in progress, a culinary journey that started with her childhood in Singapore and is still continuing in Melbourne. ``My parents, who were true-blue Straits Chinese, also known as Peranakans, instilled in me a love for the finer things in life, including music, culture and food,'' said. Ida will review performances from the arts scene in Melbourne. | |
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ART MUSIC THE BLUES THE HYPOCRITE THEATRE MELB. |
13 March 09 Moonlight and Magnolias A Melbourne Theatre Company production. Now on until March 28, 2009. Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse Online bookings available on www.mtcsubscribe.com.au Gone With the Wind, the greatest movie of Hollywood, is in serious trouble. With five days to go, movie mogul David O Selznick is losing a fortune and he figures that five days is all he's got before he loses it all. He has no script and the movie is about to be made. But then he has the best rewrite guy in Ben Hecht, a big-time director in Victor Fleming and a typewriter. He now only needs a supply of bananas and peanuts (brain food) and a key to lock his writer and director in a room for five days until the script is complete. ``No one is going nowhere until the script is fixed,'' says Selznick and so the three of them spend the time agonising over the script, the scenes and more. Directed by Bruce Beresford, the play is brilliant, witty with sparkling one-liners. Beresford in fact remarked in an interview that he had actually experienced being locked in a room in a similar situation. The cast, Patrick Brammall, Marg Downey, Nicholas Hammond and Stephen Lovatt, is wonderful and Moonlight and Magnolias is a delicious and hilarious taste of Tinseltown on a Melbourne stage.   ( photos by Jeff Busby) |
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