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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies, totalling 500 films, were nominated for the distinction; genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors.
Meat Loaf performed a twelve-and-a-half minute medley of his best-known songs. Vanessa Amorosi: 2012: Pre-match entertainment was Tim Rogers and Paul Kelly. Half-time entertainment was provided by The Temper Trap. [13] [14] Marina Prior: 2013: Birds of Tokyo performed "Lanterns". Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly".
The 2012–2016 rights were bought by Seven, Foxtel and Telstra for $1.25 billion, the biggest sport telecasting deal in Australian history at the time. As part of the deal, Foxtel would show all home-and-away AFL matches live, as well as all Finals bar the grand final, via the resurrected Fox Footy.
In 2002, Felice Arena and former AFL star Garry Lyon co-wrote the first of many children's books in the Specky Magee series. Other footballers have released football-themed children's books, including Dwayne Russell with Jackson's Goal and Brendan Fevola with The Best Game Ever. Michael Wagner's Maxx Rumble Footy Series was published between ...
In 1998, the clubs established the Madden Cup as an annual prize for matches between the two clubs. The Madden Cup is named in honour of brothers Simon Madden – who played 378 games for Essendon, winning two premierships, four best and fairests, and a Norm Smith Medal – and Justin Madden – who played 45 games for Essendon and 287 games for Carlton, winning two premierships and two best ...
Their half-time score of 21.5 (131) still remains the highest half-time score in VFL/AFL history. [28] Brisbane won their first finals as a merged entity against Carlton and the Western Bulldogs before losing to the eventual premiers, the Kangaroos, in a 1999 preliminary final. The Lions played finals again in 2000 but bowed out in the second ...
The AFL faced much scrutiny, with the current rule at the time having the grand final being replayed the following week. In 2016, the rule was changed so that a period of extra time is played in lieu of a replay the next week. [7] Collingwood won the grand final replay decisively.
The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...