Backstage with George

Star Trek star George Takei is in Australia on a speaking tour where he talks about his treatment in an internement camp during WW2 and the prejudice Asian actors face in Hollywood. We managed to get some snaps backstage after his Sydney talk tonight.

 Pics by William Yang

Star Trek : Into Light

Where better to hold a promotion for the new Star Trek Into Darkness flick, than glorious Bondi Beach on a beautiful sunny crisp Autumn morning. Here are a couple of snaps from yesterday's pr event.

Zachary Quinto, J.J. Abrams, Lifeguard Dean "Deano" Gladstone, Chris Pine and Karl Urban pose at Bondi Beach at the "Star Trek Into Darkness" photo call

Right :  stars of the new Star Trek film Zachary Quinto; J.J. Abrams; Chris Pine; Karl Urban

Billy's Memorial Vandalised

Billy Thorpe & Lynn

The memorial at the Sunbury Pop Festival site for the late rocker Billy Thorpe has had it's plaque stolen and his widow Lynn Thorpe has expressed her dismay and sadness to her Facebook pals.

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Manchester born Thorpe emigrated to Australia with his parents and became a child star using the name Little Rock Allen. By his early 20s he was the biggest Australian pop star with a string of hits and fronted his own television pop show. During the 80s he lived in the USA and had a number of hits there and wrote music for top TV shows like Star Trek, the Disney corporation and Universal Studios.

In the UK he formed a band with Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac before returning to live in Australia in the late 1990s. A hugely popular and well liked entertainer, Thorpe died of myocardial infarction at the age of 61 in 2007.

Anyone who knows where the plaque is should ring their local copper's station.
Below is Billy with his big hit "Over The Rainbow" from 1966: