Good evening, Emilia Bresciani with the news headlines.
Share prices continue to dominate international news as stocks around the world have begun
to show signs of a slight recovery.
Tonight in Worldwide, Carol Austin from the Australian Industry Development Corporation
looks at what's needed from the US and European governments to prevent a wholesale collapse
of the world's stock markets.
And the American Navy has released pictures of its attack on an Iranian oil rig, detailed
soon on Worldwide.
In October 1921, Ivo Livi was born in Monsumano Terme, a village in the Tuscan hills of Italy.
The farmer's son grew up to be a popular singer and actor, and today is known all over the
world as Yves Montand.
Ivo's youth was eventful.
His father was a dedicated socialist, and when the fascists set fire to his silo, the family
decided to flee over the Alps to France.
Ivo grew up in the slums of Marseille.
He and his schoolmates were called les crottes, in English, street rubbish.
The street urchins had to work as hard as their parents and were already little adults.
At the age of 12, Ivo used his irresistible smile to find work gluing paper bags.
After that, he tried his hand at hairdressing.
He's fond of remembering how his mother used to call to him, Ivo Monta, Ivo Monta, Ivo
come upstairs.
Later, as Yves Montand, he decided to try his luck in the theatre.
He appeared in plays and various vaudeville shows.
When war swept over France in 1940, Yves found work on the docks unloading ships, but against
the wishes of his parents, he went on with dancing classes and his study of singing
in English.
In 1943, working at the Paris Music Hall, he met Edith Piaf.
Their partnership culminated in 1946 with the film Étoiles Sans Lumières, but it was
his second film, Les Portes de la Nuit, directed by Marcel Carnet, which established him as
a singer and actor.
He became internationally famous with the thriller The Wages of Fear in 1953.
In 1956, he starred opposite Simone Signore in The Witches of Salem.
He and Simone had been married five years earlier.
The acting style of the Italo-French star is honest, natural and always committed.
He is unusual among actors in taking a strong stand in defense of civil liberty and against
fascism and all forms of injustice.
However, he's never joined a political party and has appeared both in Russian factories
and in the concert halls of the United States.
Highlights of Montand's career include serious films like La Guerre est Finie, directed by
Alain Renet in 1966, and Jean-Luc Godard's Tout Va Bien in 1972.
In 1968, he played the main character in Costa Gavras's political film Zed, a study of the
horrors of dictatorship.
Montand has not performed so often as a singer in recent years.
His popularity nowadays is based largely on his acting roles and his strong views on current politics.
Look at the states, he's not moved out.
Do you reckon he's dumped this?
I hope so.
Put that down.
You'll have to get on to that estate agent, will you?
I want to get hold of him, that's Sullivan.
There's a new family at the close, Brookside, tomorrow at 6, Adelaide, 5.30, SBS.
This year, in cooperation with the ABC, SBS presents the first two days play of all the
major Australian golf tournaments.
The New South Wales Open.
The Australian PGA.
The South Australian Open.
And the Australian Open.
Featuring top international players and the cream of Australian golfing talent.
Our coverage of the New South Wales Open begins Thursday afternoon at 2, 130 Adelaide, SBS.
We'll be right back.
I was adopted when I was very little and I was told that my natural grandmother was a very good tennis coach
and I would hope that it was passed on to me.
Catherine Hillard, 1987's answer to Yvonne Corley.
We'll have more on young Cathy's success story and that of another sporting look-alike later in the program.
Good evening, I'm Andrew Pascolides.
Australian touring car champions Alan Grice and Dick Johnson were humbled.
Melbourne's famous Calder Raceway had never seen anything like it.
And 20,000 spectators were yelling for more, if you'd been able to hear them.
The event was Shell's Truck Super Prix.
And what the machines lacked in handling, they more than made up for in pure power.
Westbound to town, 18 wheels a-rolling
We're gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go
And a short time to get there
I'm westbound, just watch your bandit run
Keep your foot hard on the pedal
Some never mind them brakes
Let it all hang out cause we gotta run to make
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
And there's beer in Texarkana
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes
Calder Raceway was the venue for the most spectacular, especially if size is the yardstick, form of motor racing ever to hit Australia.
The inaugural Truck Super Prix saw rigs and drivers from all over Australia and overseas battle it out on the tight and testing Calder track.
Bends and straights designed for high-powered road-hugging cars challenged the ability and nerve of truck drivers used to driving thousands of kilometres a week for a living.
As it turned out, the course proved to be an easy test, as the drivers effortlessly powered their rigs around the track at speeds of around 100 miles an hour.
In Europe, truck racing began in 1984 and since then has grown enormously in popularity.
It's not unusual now for main events to attract crowds in excess of 50,000 people.
On the final day of the two-day Truck Super Prix, more than 15,000 people flocked to Calder Raceway.
The organisers went out of their way to make sure that there was never a dull moment both on and off the track.
One of the interesting aspects of the event was that among the competitors was a handful of leading names in Australian motorsport, including Dick Johnson and Ellen Grice.
Charlie Kovacs, a professional truck driver and winner of the controversial Cannonball run across Australia, raised an issue that concerned most of the professional truckies.
The only problem that we found when we got here was that there's probably two or three trucks that have been purpose-built for this particular race only and it's a little bit hard to compete with a normal road truck against race cars if you like.
So what does it take to actually drive trucks like these in a race?
I think you must dislodge your brain and put it in the back of the truck.
The main event over the weekend was the Shell Formula Diesel Truck Super Prix Final.
Ellen, you won the big one. What's truck driving like in racing?
Well, they run out of brakes. The brakes are good while they're in the pits and in the pit road. Once you get out there, you've got to look after them.
And I guess it's fair to say that race driving for a living helps you look after the brakes and that's what won the final.
The other guy was equally as quick, but he had more brake trouble. But he did a superb job.
And I thought my dad's F100 was a big truck.
The Brisbane Bullets are the 1987 National Basketball League champions after a convincing win over the Perth Wildcats in the best of three grand final series.
The game in Brisbane was expected to go right down to the wire after the first match in Perth resulted in a one-point win to the Bullets.
Everyone knew the Bullets would be tough on their home court with an Australian record indoor sports crowd expected.
But there was a question mark over the fitness of star Brisbane shooter Leroy Loggins.
While the crowd lived up to expectations, as Debbie Spillane reports, Loggins well and truly exceeded them.
Leib and Leroy was reportedly having trouble walking early in the week. On Friday night, it looked like he could have walked on water.
From the outset, he served notice that he was at his unstoppable best.
The Wildcats' high turnover rate in the opening quarter allowed the Bullets to skip away to an early lead. At the first break, they led 29-23.
Nothing seemed to be going right for the Wildcats in the second term. Even top gun Tiny Pinder couldn't take a trick.
But Brewton's boys showed characteristic fight to pull back midway through the quarter and actually take the lead with this Trevor Torrance basket.
The Bullets' offense for once seemed rattled and chances were being missed.
The lead was pushed to three points with a further score from the Wildcats.
But the experienced grand final campaign was rallied and three unanswered baskets soon had them back in charge.
It was only this desperation shot by coach Cal Brewton that kept the Wildcats in touch at halftime.
Although the record crowd seemed happy with Brisbane's three-point halftime lead, the Bullets were determined to extend the lead to a three-point lead.
The Wildcats' lead in the second half was a three-point lead.
The Bullets' lead in the second half was a three-point lead.
Although the record crowd seemed happy with Brisbane's three-point halftime lead, the Bullets were determined to extend it by punishing every Perth miss in the second half.
Emory Atkinson demonstrated the Bullets' bench strength by starring at both ends of the court and setting up a ten-point lead.
By the final quarter it was all over by the singing as the Bullets turned on the power.
Ron Ratliff celebrated the imminent victory with this incredible three-pointer.
In the end it was a 19-point win to Brian Curl and his Bullets in their fourth consecutive grand final appearance.
After the disappointment of last year's loss to Adelaide, Curl had promised to bring the NBL trophy back to Brisbane and bring it back is just what the Bullets did.
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