LOVES & HATES
My first coffee of the morning on my deck. It’s something I look forward to immensely. I’m a real coffee fiend.
Manukau harbour. My wife’s father has a beautiful bach on the Manukau harbour. It’s my favourite place in the world. It’s just magnificent.
All my girls. I have four daughters and a lovely wife.
Washing plastic bags to recycle them. You’ve got this horrendous plastic bag dripping on your drying board and it’s got all the detritus of the sink in there. It’s all oily and disgusting.
Soaking Bircher muesli. Have a proper breakfast for goodness sake. Get a pie in you.
Fitted sheets. I can’t fold them and can never get them on the mattress. You’re pulling in one corner and then it twangs off the other end. I’ve never been able to nail fitted sheets.
– Frank Sinatra, 34, marries his second wife, film star Ava Gardner, 26 (above).
– US actor Steve McQueen, called the King Of Cool, dies of a heart attack after surgery. He was 50.
– US boxer Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight world champion, dies, aged 67, of liver cancer.
NOVEMBER 8
– The film Mutiny On The Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, premieres in New York. It won the Outstanding Production Oscar the following year.
– John F. Kennedy is elected US President, defeating Republican victory in New Zealand’s election, defeating Labour’s Helen Clark, who had been Prime Minister for nine years.
NOVEMBER 9
– Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth and probably last victim of Jack The Ripper, is found dead on her bed in her London single room.
– The uncensored version of D.H. Lawrence’s book Lady Chatterley’s Lover finally goes on sale in the UK after a jury finds publishers Penguin Books not guilty in an obscenity trial.
– Sesame Street premieres in the United States on PBS TV.
– The movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, premieres in Chicago.
– US actor Jack Palance (City Slickers) dies, aged 87, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
NOVEMBER 11
– Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne for murder. He was 25.
– World War I armistice is signed by the Allies and Germany.
– Two Towers, the second volume of Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, is published.
– Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is removed from office by Governor General
Sir John Kerr. Malcolm Fraser is then sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister.
– Wings release Mull Of Kintyre, which became a huge hit.
– New Zealand’s Tomb Of The Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial in Wellington.
NOVEMBER 12
– Director Blake Edwards, 47, weds actress Julie Andrews, 34, in Beverly Hills.
– US actor William Holden bleeds to death after slipping on a rug and hitting his head on a bedside table. He was 63.