Newsman engendered something close to reverence in viewers
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By John Shand
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BRIAN HENDERSON, 1931-2021
Brian Henderson will be remembered for the velvet voice and easy charm with which he delivered Channel Nine’s nightly news and hosted the music show
Bandstand – a charm that defined him equally off screen as on.
But there was also a quiet determination in his make-up. When
Bandstand’s ratings fell by half from the 1960s into the ’70s, Henderson went to the network’s joint managing director, Clyde Packer, whom he said he “truly disliked” and who “returned the dislike”, and asked for a budget increase to help restore the show’s popularity. Questioned as to what he would know about such matters, Henderson gently reminded his boss that he had been involved since
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Cornell was new to film producing when he and Hogan went to Kakadu for the shoot after raising the $8 million budget through private investors, including rock singer Michael Hutchence and leading cricketers, under the country’s tax incentives at the time.
“It’s gunna be good,” he told visiting journalists with a showman’s confidence.
He was right. Director Peter Faiman’s comedy about outback adventurer Mick Dundee took a triumphant $US328 million around the world. The only film to sell more tickets that year was
Top Gun.
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Cornell joined Hogan and Ken Shadie in being nominated for an Oscar for the script. In Australia,
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