When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, it may have been one small step for man, but the TV images of the event were one giant leap for Australia. Flawed human nature and the unpredictability of Mother Nature almost caused one of the biggest botches in...read the complete Dish, The (2000) review at San Francisco Chronicle (Bob Graham)
Australia wasn't on the cultural radar of many Americans in the 1960s, when the events that inspired "The Dish" took place. Like the contradiction of the duck-billed platypus, a mammal that lays eggs, the place seemed exotic in a prosaic sort of way --...read the complete Dish, The (2000) review at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette