Talk:Bryan Brown

Removed paragraph

I have removed the following paragraph from the article:

The Australian Film Commission provides grants to stimulate film production in Australia. The funding is required to be repaid from first cash flow after release. Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward have publicly criticised the NSW Government for failing to help finance their next project. But documents show the couple's New Town Films has yet to pay back Australian Film Commission grants for their 2003 short film Martha's New Coat, which received at least $18,250 in 2002. The 50-minute production was directed by Ward, produced by Brown and their daughter Matilda made her film debut in it.

• The original newspaper article is unreliable and speculative:
  • the Tele is not exactly Australia's newspaper of record;
  • the newspaper article lacks a byline.
• The newspaper article insinuates that Ward & Brown have improperly profited from an AFC grant, but presents no evidence or facts to support that speculation (did the funded film make enough money to trigger repayment?).
• The paragraph in the Wikipedia article is a copyright infingement. Apart from the first two disjointed sentences, it is almost a verbatim copy:

Newspaper

Wikipedia

[…] Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward publicly condemned the NSW Government for failing to help finance their next project. But documents show the couple's New Town Films has yet to pay back AFC grants for their 2003 short film Martha's New Coat, which received at least $18,250 in 2002. The 50-minute production was directed by Ward, produced by Brown and their daughter Matilda made her film debut in it.

Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward have publicly criticised the NSW Government for failing to help finance their next project. But documents show the couple's New Town Films has yet to pay back Australian Film Commission grants for their 2003 short film Martha's New Coat, which received at least $18,250 in 2002. The 50-minute production was directed by Ward, produced by Brown and their daughter Matilda made her film debut in it.

I have done the same at the article for Rachel Ward. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

There is no problem with the source here - the Daily Telegraph, while not my favourite paper, is considered a reliable source for Wikipedia standards. Whether or not the article has a byline has never had any bearing on its acceptability, as long as the article is published in a reliable source.

This said, the text as written needs to go for copyright violation, so... Rebecca (talk) 12:15, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Retaining his accent

He is one of the few Australian actors who regularly plays Australians, thereby retaining his accent.

• What ever does the bit I've highlighted mean? The Oz accent is not something one sort of tacks on to god-knows-whatever-else, and then just as quickly dispenses with when the occasion demands. It is absolutely just as legitimate a way of English-speaking in its own right as the way the Queen speaks, or Barack Obama speaks, or Elton John speaks. It's gotta go. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 05:09, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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