The best of Beck's Bar

The Beck's Bar at Hyde Park Barracks Museum is always one of the Sydney Festival's key venues, thanks to the variety of acts it attracts - often on the one bill.

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Custody deal for Jackson children

LOS ANGELES: A custody deal has been reached for Michael Jackson's children that will see the biological mother of the two eldest have parental rights and their grandmother retain permanent custody of all three, US media reported yesterday.

I Do Not Come to You by Chance

I Do Not Come to You by Chance Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $32.99

In Tinseltown, a dead man steals a live show

THE final, posthumous performance of Michael Jackson was in the transcendent tradition of his previous shows: part musical feast, part religious experience, part examination of a man who seemed not a man but something else his public was always trying to figure out. Boy? Demigod? Alien? It was, at times and fittingly, odd. There was deep, heartfelt, intimate emotion at the public memorial mixed with fantasy, sequins, Mariah Carey and Al Sharpton.

In Tinseltown, a dead man steals his own live show

THE final, posthumous performance of Michael Jackson was in the transcendent tradition of his previous shows: part musical feast, part religious experience, part examination of a man who seemed not a man but something else his public was always trying to figure out. Boy? Demigod? Alien? It was, at times and fittingly, odd. There was deep, heartfelt, intimate emotion at the public memorial but it was mixed with fantasy , sequins, Mariah Carey and Al Sharpton.

Wheres My Daddy:

When Edmundo Zura joined the Jets, he spoke of his desire to build a better life for his wife and young son. In the end, he couldnt stand to be apart from them, reports JAMES GARDINER.

Yes Ministers, That's My Daddy

ISABELLA CONROY is officially daddy's little girl.

Ah, Poo, It's Hard To Hate This Kid Flick

DADDY DAY CAMP (PG) Director: Fred Savage Stars: Cuba Gooding jnr, Lochlyn Munro, Paul Rae, Richard Gant, Spencir Bridges Screening: Showcase, Glendale, Maitland, Tuggerah, Erina Rating: **

Daddy Day Camp

Daddy Day Camp 2/5.5 (89 mins) PG

At The Bar With Nazz (from King Daddy)

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Nether-region Rhythm

MANY ex-college students, footy players or party people may be inclined to drop their daks tonight as Ross Wilson (pictured) steps away from the It Takes Two judges' desk to perform Daddy Cool's number one hit Eagle Rock.

Futuris To Give Run Its New Legs

HIGH-PROFILE rent roll manager Run Corp appears to have found a sugar daddy in a deal that could have Futuris own just over half of the struggling Run.

Daddy's Girl

Lisa Scottoline Macmillan, $32.95