The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 49

GREEN 1 GUIDE 13 NOVEMBER 1997 Australia Oscars, only better, a him landing the job as lead singer with a local band called the Senators. Once Tom started hitting the big time, he callously ditched the band, according to one disgruntled Senators member. Tom, however, says the band was simply not up to the task of providing the sound he needed to make women throw their laundry at him. The program was made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his career, though his recent success with hits such as If I Only Knew and his fabulous cover of Prince's Kiss aren't mentioned. What is inevitably covered, however briefly, is Tom's continued appeal to women, who scream their adoration as the show's credits roll.

What makes them do it? Hey, if we only knew. the farmer's wife? Ferrari's incisive probing, as always, ensures she gets to the bottom of it. But she faces a few personal twists of her own involving her close friend, not to mention the state minister, Frank Kelso (Martin Jacobs). Could her job be on the line? Meanwhile, Julie Travers (Elaine Smith) and Clive Trimble (Bob Baines) are on to a riddle of their own: a woman's skeleton found inside a national park. The episode moves a bit stiffly at times, but Hughes' smooth performance adds a layer of class.

Not surprisingly, Channel 10 has commissioned a second series of its best local drama of 1997, superior in both ratings and quality to the likes of Big Sky and Medtvac. Toes Jonee: The Green Green Chen of Home ABC 9pm Sh ScbesM AT ONE time or another every woman in the world has wanted to have sex with Tom Jones. Why? Well, it's obvious, surely. It's because he's Tom Jones. Tom's sexual mystique, which has baffled as many music fans over the decades as it has thrilled, is thankfully not the focus of this terrific, compact profile.

It charts his rise with surprising detail and candor, from his upbringing in the small village of Pontypridd in Wiles to his triumph in Las Vegas and to his ultimate professional achievement, which was sharing a dialogue scene with Danny DeVito in Mars Attacks! It's not just a puff piece, either. Tom's ascent from doing gigs for a pound at the Wood Road Non-Political Club in Treforest began with TlKee Australian scouts attempt to 'walk to the South Pole. Okafielft5pm. I tiHiiiOiiuMfcesttlMlrUws I Mini-sitcom series set in Auckland. Adyaftmctional, ftmny, Urevetent fier4antf Ksease.

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