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  Bert Newton - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Bert Newton (or moonface) is one of the most evil things to come out of Australia since vegemite, (and he probably tastes worse too).
Bert Newton didn't realise that another personality was on the rise until it was too late, When Bert realised that Ray Martin had started to dominate the Journalism genre he got upset and attacked Ray on his tv show A Current Affair.
Bert Newtons new reign was not to last, with competition heating between Networks Nine, Ten and Seven, there were a few people who did not know where thier loyalties lay, the people known as "channel surfers" realised that they were being brainwashed and decided to do something about it.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Bert_Newton   (2046 words)

  
  Bert Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newton was born in Fitzroy, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
Newton lived at home with his mother until the age of 36, prompting widespread gossip that he was gay.
Bert Newton is reported to have died in his Melbourne home on the 23rd of October 2006 from a suspected heart attack, Has only just been reported by Sky News.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bert_Newton   (1195 words)

  
 Burt Newton
Bert Newton was born on the 23rd of July 1938.
Bert began his career in 1956,the same year that television was launched in Australia, which his fist job to be with channel seven in Melbourne.
Bert Newton was on The Don Lane Show from 1975-1983.Bert's father died in 1981.
teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /cyberfair2001/BertNewton.htm   (198 words)

  
 Bert Newton, 66, and Patti Newton, 59
Bert is quick-witted and funny but he's also downright serious about his career and what he asks of himself and those who work with him.
Bert's spiritual profile shows he's prone to overdoing it or being over-indulgent so he needs to be careful of over-eating, over-spending or making financial losses by taking too much risk.
Bert and Patti Newton have had their ups and downs in life, just like everyone else, but have gotten through by staying focused on their friendship and love.
womansday.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=54180   (353 words)

  
 Bert Newton
Newton was educated at St Joseph's Marist Brothers College and remains a strong Roman Catholic.
Channel Nine Salutes Bert Newton was broadcast in early 2004, depicting the career of Newton from his early days of late night television to his height as Logie presenter.
Bert is almost completely bald, but in his later years has unashamedly worn a hairpiece, which he often uses as a subject of his humour.
bert-newton.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Bert_Newton   (1604 words)

  
 Memorable TV - Articles - Newton's Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Logies well and truly put paid to them.The television industry is not easily impressed by one of its own and when Bert's peers spontaneously rose to their feet and greeted him with a thunderous roar of applause, their acknowledgment said it all.
Bert's relationship with television began only a matter of months after it was launched, so a more fitting 'expert' on TV's history and the way it has mirrored - and influenced - our development as a society would be hard to find.
Bert recalls his shock when he learnt that people had been unaware they had received advertising hype.
www.memorabletv.com /articles/articlesnewtonslaw.htm   (576 words)

  
 Bert Newton backs son | Herald Sun
BERT Newton has broken his public silence over the assault charges against his son Matthew, declaring there will be no winners out of the battle that has rocked the showbiz family.
Newton, who is expected to be nominated for a seventh Gold Logie, would not comment directly on the case against his son for legal reasons.
Newton and his wife, Patti, were doing their best to support their son, who mutually agreed to have his contract with Nova 100 dissolved.
www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,21119703-2902,00.html   (610 words)

  
 Milan Historical Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Newton's business career with the Gulf Oil Company afforded the couple years of foreign travel with extended periods in Belgium and Argentina.
The Newtons had an appreciation for works of art that they chose for their beauty rather than having been done by a famed artist, as well as textiles, carvings, porcelains and furnishings.
Newton enjoyed the exacting arts of needlepoint and pettipoint design and her work takes center stage in the gallery.
www.milanhistory.org /newton.html   (174 words)

  
 Cool - Bert's Family Feud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bert is a natural as a game show host with his camp style and ease in front of the camera but he is not as young as he once used to be and in a failed attempt to hide this, was heavily made up and his hair carefully glued into place.
I have been a fan of Bert Newton for over 15 years, and when we were told that we could not get his autograph on that day, and to be able to get close to your Idol and shake his hand, I was then disappointed.
Berts show is fantastic and i have been a great fan of his work for a long time.
cool.com.au /.../television-tv/bert-newton-family-feud-20060213138   (2861 words)

  
 Bert Newton
Bert attracted the attention of the Seven Network in its first days of broadcasting and was signed up to compere The Late Show, joining his good friend, the late Noel Ferrier.
In 1984 he hosted Tonight with Bert Newton, a show which is of special significance for Bert — he was the first compere to present a four-nightly variety show on a national basis.
In May 1986, Bert joined 3DB Melbourne as General Manager and on-air announcer and he remained there for two years, being the last on-air personality to be heard on this pioneering radio station, which ceased operating in April 1988.
channelnine.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=90350   (619 words)

  
 Bert Newton - Melburnian - Reference - Melbourne Online - Only Melbourne
Bert "moonface" Newton was born on the 23rd July 1938 and remains one of Australia's premier television, radio and stage performers loved by all.
Bert Newton was educated at St Joseph's Marist Brothers College, his first job working in radio doing a Saturday morning children's show on 3XY.
Bert Newton began his television career at Melbourne's HSV-7, hosting The Late Show, but soon defected to GTV-9, where he was hired to host a daytime television program.
www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=10589   (360 words)

  
 Bert newton interviews Keith urban
BERT: Great to have you here!… I saw you were admiring our staffs promotional t-shirt: Australian Idol.
BERT: Ahh well, if it's not on the show, we will just come down to the dressing room and you can have a couple of drinks and away ya go.
BERT: It was a very early love of mine...country music...because I reckon that a lot of people that are snobbish about country music.
www.keithurbanmates.net /LIBRARY_BERT_NEWTON_2003.html   (1632 words)

  
 Is the Force with Matt Newton? - ComingSoon.net
Australia's Sunday Herald Sun is reporting that Matt Newton is being eyed for a role in Lucasfilm's new live-action "Star Wars" TV series that will span 100 episodes.
The newspaper says Newton was originally Lucas' second choice to play Anakin Skywalker in the three prequels, but Lucas settled on Hayden Christensen for the role.
Newton is the son of legendary Australian TV entertainer Bert "Moonface" Newton.
comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=9719   (139 words)

  
 Good Morning Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before Bert Newton took the reigns of GMA in 1994, Good Morning Australia was a breakfast television program broadcast by Ten News.
Bert Newton's chat show began under the title The Morning Show, it adopted the title GMA in 1993.
Bert Newton fell ill in June, 2005 and was unable to host his program for the first time in fourteen years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Good_Morning_Australia   (323 words)

  
 Bert Newton backs son Matt | NEWS.com.au Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MATTHEW Newton was yesterday sacked from his new role at Nova as his famous parents vowed to stand by their son, who is accused of assaulting former girlfriend actor Brooke Satchwell.
Just hours after Newton's new girlfriend Gracie Otto, 19, the daughter of legendary performer Barry Otto, drove him from her family's Lewisham home in Sydney's inner west, Newton announced the radio station had released him from his contract, reportedly worth up to $200,000 a year.
Meanwhile Bert Newton's agent and friend Glenn Wheatley described the Newton family as extremely close and said Matthew's parents were standing by their son.
www.news.com.au /entertainment/story/0,10221,21066831-10388,00.html?from=public_rss   (704 words)

  
 The cult of Bert - smh.com.au
Born in Melbourne in 1938, Newton was appearing in variety shows by the time he was 13, landing his first job in radio soon afterwards.
Newton celebrated his 21st birthday on Kennedy's show and, in 1974, he invited Kennedy to be best man at his wedding.
And we're on, with Newton as calm as a Buddhist monk, totally unruffled by all the puppies crawling on his ankles and toes.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/22/1034561493452.html   (1751 words)

  
 Matt Newton - IndexTube : music videos, TV Shows, educational videos, comedy videos, youtube, google video
Newton is also starring in a new TV series for TV1 called Stupid, Stupid Man set in the office of a fictional men's magazine called COQ where he plays Nick Driscoll, the Features Writer.
Newton was originally Lucas' second choice to play Skywalker in episodes one, two and three of the film franchise but the filmmaker settled on Hayden Christensen for the role.
Newton, son of legendary Australian TV entertainer Bert "Moonface" Newton, was even flown to California twice to meet with Lucas at the famed Skywalker Ranch in the lead-up to casting the film role.
www.indextube.com /Matt_Newton   (2305 words)

  
 Actors - Bert Newton
Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, MBE (born 23 July 1938), Australian television performer, was born in Fitzroy, an inner suburb of Melbourne.
Newton continued as Lane's sidekick and "barrel boy." Lane christened him "Moonface", and the nickname stuck.
Newton lived at home with his mother until the age of 36, prompting widespread gossip that he was gay.
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Bert_Newton.html   (811 words)

  
 Craig-Parker.net - Good Morning Australia
Bert Newton- "Some New Zealand friends of mine, when they knew that you were coming on the show, they were running around with one leg in the air absolutely thrilled."
Bert- "Craig, were you dissappointed when you realised your character was not going to be in the third one, that you're going to be killed off?"
Bert - "The beaut news about Lord of the Rings is of course, the DVDs are released, the first and second ones are out now..." (waffles on about ROTK being out soon, stuffs up and corrects himself twice, finally getting it right and saying it's out May 25th).
www.craig-parker.net /articles/gmaustralia.php   (1176 words)

  
 Bert Newton says goodbye to Ten // Australian-Media.com.au News
Television legend Bert Newton says he has yet to sign to any other network, despite rumours he is in final negotiations with the Nine Network.
Newton was offered quite a reasonable deal to stay at Ten while the network looked at some possible new projects for him.
Ten had believed Newton was happy with its revised offer, but when Newton's manager Glenn Wheatley arrived in Sydney yesterday, he told the network that Newton would be moving on.
www.australian-media.com.au /index.php?c=home&p=news&article=583   (451 words)

  
 GMA axed, Bert signs with Channel 9
Bert Newton has signed to Channel Nine as Network Ten dumped Good Morning Australia after 14 years.
However, the TV star was obviously unhappy with Ten’s proposals and has returned to Channel Nine where he fronted The Bert Newton Show back in 1967 and Tonight with Bert Newton in 1984.
Said Newton: “14 years is a long time for any television show and this one was very special to me. I am proud of what we achieved with GMA.
www.bandt.com.au /news/d0/0c037fd0.asp   (245 words)

  
 Cool - Bert's Family Feud
Bert is a natural as a game show host with his camp style and ease in front of the camera but he is not as young as he once used to be and in a failed attempt to hide this, was heavily made up and his hair carefully glued into place.
I have been a fan of Bert Newton for over 15 years, and when we were told that we could not get his autograph on that day, and to be able to get close to your Idol and shake his hand, I was then disappointed.
Berts show is fantastic and i have been a great fan of his work for a long time.
www.cool.com.au /humour-jokes-satire/television-tv/bert-newton-family-feud-20060213138   (3289 words)

  
 Three charges dropped against Newton
Newton's high-profile lawyer Chris Murphy is in discussions with police as to whether the star will plead guilty to that charge, a spokesman for Mr Murphy's office said outside the Sydney court where the charge is being heard.
However, Newton was criticised for his behaviour during a New Year's Eve television broadcast, in which he engaged in a simulated sex act.
Newton is now in a relationship with Gracie Otto, the daughter of actor Barry and the sister of actress Miranda.
news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=117790&rss=yes   (426 words)

  
 Freedom To Differ: Bert Newton on Don't Date Him Girl
Bert Newton appears on the Don't Date Him Girl, a website dedicated to exposing cheating men.
The spoof entry says that Bert Newton "Bert likes to attempt to seduce women on his show through witty banter and a polyester demeanour, often grabbing at their girly bits off-camera and from behind the centre podium with his card-free hand".
Bert Newton will now need to consider whether he wishes to sue the site's creator, Tasha Joseph, like Attorney Todd J Hollis did after two Pittsburgh-area women and other anonymous users posted items about him on the site.
www.freedomtodiffer.com /freedom_to_differ/2006/07/bert_newton_on_.html   (398 words)

  
 Channel 9 Salutes Bert Newton - The Memorable TV DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A sparkling overview of the work of TV legend Bert "Moonface" Newton from his earliest days in the business through IMT and the Don Lane show and his tenure as King of the Logies, Newton hosted the show 18 times.
If anyone in the business deserves to be known as a Legend then Bert is one of them and this is a fitting tribute to the best work of the man.
To round things off there is Bert's infamous 1988 Logies speech where he tells it like it is about the state of the industry at that time.
www.memorabletv.com /dvdreviews05/bertnewtonsalute.htm   (135 words)

  
 Newton, Bert: Channel 9 Salutes Bert Newton - Rent This DVD with Quickflix
Bert Newton is Australian television’s most enduring star.
Bert’s career began in 1957, when as an eighteen year old, he hosted his own late show on Channel Seven.
But Bert Newton is much more than just a sidekick.
www.quickflix.com.au /public/tools/viewmovie/NewtonBertChannel9SalutesBertNewton/19042.aspx   (329 words)

  
 The Skeeters
Bert Newton's (rhythm guitar, lead vocals) influences are obviously from the outlaw era of country music, while Matt Martin (lead guitar, vocals) comes from a jam band direction.
Bert Newton, the band's lead, wrote most of the album's songs.
Bert admits the song was included on the album with the open intention to
www.takecountryback.com /reviews/skeetersrev.htm   (2592 words)

  
 Amyo is a geek: Old moonface
I thought I'd test out how good answers.com is by using Bert Newton as the test subject.
Bert Newton is tedious and unfunny, as was Graham Kennedy, his sidekick.
Bert's a bloody pisser mate, see the DVD, Muhammid only wanted to kick his ass because he used his catch phrase "I Like The Boy" which is offensive to fls, although bert didnt know.
amyo.is-a-geek.net /movies_and_tv/old_moonface.php   (452 words)

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