Movies - Friday, February 5

Bird on a Wire (1990) Channel Seven, 10.30pm Barbershop (2002) Channel Seven, 12.35pm

Sugar-coated pop tunes easy to swallow but not for all tastes

MIKA The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Universal)

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Our "collective nouns for posties" search has gone off at a tangent, as we knew it would, courtesy of Wayne Davies, of Gordon, who writes: "While on collective nouns, the other night at barbershop rehearsal we inadvertently came up with the definitive term for a minority part of the chorus: 'A dearth of baritones'. Their low representation is possibly due to having to sing Jingle Bells upside down in the minor key while fighting the indelible memory of the melody that we all know so well." We are ...

Out Of The Blue To Hit The Right Note In Us

WOLLONGONG'S Out of the Blue Singers are off to the United States next week to join a chorus of about 140 women competing in an international Sweet Adeline Barbershop competition.

No Nudes But A Boom In Busts

THE old-fashioned barbershop magazine is making a comeback with the blue jokes, bosoms, drongo trivia and more bosoms. Or as Zoo Weekly bills itself "sex, sport and stupidity".

Something New In Vogue As Mags Taste Healthy Success

Magazines for diabetics and for barbershop blokes are leading the way, writes John Elder.

Heavenly Harmonies Your Majesties

MENTION "vocal harmonies" and small-minded people would either envisage the Seekers, a barbershop quartet, or have hideous flashbacks to school choir. But those of us still in the throes of a passionate relationship with popular music know only too well the strange magic that can be woven by multiple voices singing as one multifaceted whole.

Warm Tale Just A Cut Above

FILM REVIEW: BARBERSHOP (M), Selected release ***

Barbershop

Opened the US September 13, 2002 Director Tim Story Stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Cedric the Entertainer

Tuned In

TUNED IN: More than 1000 women were in tune with each other yesterday at WIN Stadium's northern grandstand. Twelve hundred top Australian female barbershop singers belted out their tuneful notes at the start of the Sweet Adelines International Southern Cross Convention. The competition will run all weekend at the WIN Entertainment Centre, concluding on Monday at noon. It is being hosted by the Wollongong Harmony Chorus.

Out Of Shower, Onto The Stage

Karen Wilmott is in strict training for this weekend's barbershop convention at the WIN Entertainment Centre.

Dare To Dream

Rightly or wrongly, the humble barbershop has traditionally been a men-only domain, where gents gather to relax and discuss the day's matters free of female interjection.

Chorus Group Imports Some Us Expertise

US vocal coach Jim Arns has made an unlikely career out of teaching women the art of barbershop singing.

Short Back And Sides Of Song

Barbershop singing is hardly hip - but that doesn't faze enthusiasts. More than 1000 of the world's best are coming to town. Selma Milovanovic reports.

In Full Voice

ITS ranks swelled by a flood of new members and buoyed by international recognition, the Wollongong Harmony Chorus is on song to score its name into Australian choral history. In June 2000, the 80-strong barbershop-style harmony chorus will compete in the sixth Sweet Adeline International Austral

Fred On Cutting Edge Of Barbershop Quartets

BARBERSHOP quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are currently ranked No 2 in the world. `People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair,' said the group's amiable tenor, Je

The Short Back And Sides Of Song

Barbershop quartets are hip. So say the members of Fred, the all-singing, all-joking foursome from Atlanta, Georgia, who are ranked No 2 in the world. "People have a stereotype of a barbershopper as an older person with a top hat and very little hair," said the group's amiable tenor, Je

Harmony On A Grand Scale

THE Wollongong Men's Barbershop Chorus will be on the cutting edge of its trade next week when the singers make their debut at the National Convention of Men Barbershop Singers. The 1997 convention is the largest of its kind in Australia and incorporates the competition to select the country's ch

Songs From The Barbershop

If you sing naturally and can hold a tune, you too could be a barbershop singer. With voices raised in harmony, barbershop quartets and choruses do it all for the love of the song, and, in September, will indulge in a little friendly rivalry to find the best barbershoppers in Australia. Barbe

Families Slow To Get The Mail The New Post Is Delivering

IT WAS always the bloke's barbershop magazine - busty women on the cover and inside, off-beat stories about boxers or someone who built a garage out of beer cans. `Australasian Post', the country's oldest magazine, also used to be one of its biggest sellers. That was in the innocent early 1960s w