AISHAH Jennifer Mohamed Sinclair has a name that encapsulates both her British and Malay heritage. She grew up in England for the first six years of her life before her family moved to Malaysia for good and where she is happy to be and to raise her daughter, Soraya Ann. In this candid interview about […]
Gol & Gincu
“Crazy” business ideas
By Ding Jo-AnnCRAZY IDEAS. Instinct. Gut feeling. It’s all part of what it takes to start a business. This was discussed during The Nut Graph’s fifth Found in Conversation event on 24 Oct 2010 on creativity and innovation in business. AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani, The Body Shop managing director Datin Mina Cheah-Foong and Red […]
Nasihat tentang Piala Dunia
Secubit Garam oleh Shanon ShahTEMPOH hari, saya tengah melayari internet mencari ilham untuk kolum saya. Saya ingin menulis tentang Piala Dunia Fifa di Afrika Selatan sebab saya memang tidak pernah cuba menulis tentang isu sukan. Bukankah perkembangan dalam dunia sukan juga merangkumi kepentingan umum? Macam biasa, saya merujuk kepada kolumnis nasihat pujaan saya, Kak Nora. Rupa-rupanya Kak Nora kali […]
“Segregation drives me nuts”
By Nick ChooFILM and television producer Lina Tan graduated with a Mass Communications degree in 1991. She has worked in production houses in Malaysia and Singapore, and has produced for, among others, the Disney Channel and AXN. In 1999, she founded Red Communications, under which she has produced and directed many local TV commercials and programmes. She talks to The Nut Graph in the Red Communications office in Petaling Jaya on 13 May 2010.
Perempuan-perempuan pandai
Oleh Shanon ShahAlexis Bledel yang berwatak Rory Gilmore dari siri Gilmore Girls (© Ed Schipul / Flickr) BILA saya demam, saya suka tengok siri Gilmore Girls. Baru minggu lepas saya demam teruk sampai menggigil-gigil. Jadi saya pun terbongkanglah depan televisyen, menonton DVD Gilmore Girls dua hari berturut-turut. Untuk mereka yang tidak tahu, Gilmore Girls mengikuti perjalanan hidup […]
Belajar dari Pisau Cukur
Oleh Shanon ShahPoster Pisau Cukur (Semua gambar oleh Red Films) “OH my Dior!” Saya tersenyum lebar seorang-seorang lepas menonton filem Pisau Cukur baru-baru ini. Mula-mula saya ragu-ragulah juga sebelum pergi ke panggung wayang. Terus terang saya nyatakan di sini, saya memang meminati karya gandingan Lina Tan (penerbit), Rafidah Abdullah (penulis) dan Bernard Chauly (pengarah). Malah, saya amat […]
Teladan American Idol
Oleh Shanon ShahSAYA kagum dengan Kris Allen, juara American Idol musim kelapan. Bukan kerana saya rasa dia layak memenangi peraduan realiti tersebut, tetapi kerana dia seorang penganut agama Kristian yang menarik. Allen, yang sudah berkahwin dengan seorang wanita muda yang sangat comel, nampaknya sungguh senang dan mesra dengan naib juara American Idol — Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert […]
“Harmony is a myth”
By Zedeck SiewA LESSER-KNOWN fact about Malaysian film director and television series creator Bernard Chauly is that he spends much of the year outside Malaysia. “Not many people realise that I’m not here the whole time,” Chauly says. “Thank God for the internet!” While his work — including the futsal-and-romance Gol & Gincu, coming-of-age Goodbye Boys, and […]