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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Jamie Durie, Eddie McGuire, Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Kimberley Joseph, Rove McManus, Adam Hills, Bob Dyer, Andrew Gunsberg, Cornelia Frances, Daryl Somers, Ian Turpie, Tony Barber, Larry Emdur, Gretel Killeen, Tim Ferguson, Mark Beretta, Sandra Sully, Ernie Sigley, Julia Zemiro, Tania Zaetta, Gordon Elliott, Red Symons, Andrew O'Keefe, Cameron Daddo, Ugly Dave Gray, Mike Goldman, Andrew Fyfe, James Tobin, Bree Amer, Bruce Gyngell, Peter Berner, James Kerley, Mal Walden, Jacki MacDonald, Ian McFadyen, Ed Phillips, John Deeks, Alyce Platt, Glenn Ridge, Jules Lund, Andrew Harwood, Frank Wilson, Robin Stewart, Greg Evans, Sam Pang, John Burgess, Dolly Dyer, Chrissy Bray, Katrina Conder, Rob Elliott, Alison Brahe, Nathaniel Buzolic, Rob Brough, Michael Pope, Shura Taft. Excerpt: Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 - 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra (pronounced "grah-grah") and The King of Australian television. Kennedy was born in Camden Street, Balaclava to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austen Kennedy (nee Scott). His mother, who was 18 years old at the time of his birth, was employed at a local picture theatre. His father worked variously as an engineer and handyman, mowed lawns and washed cars, and in 1939 joined the RAAF as an air gunner. His first home was a "small, crowded duplex" at 32 Nelson Street, Balaclava. A 20 cm diameter plaque was placed on the property by the City of Port Phillip, coincidentally in the week of Kennedy's death. When Kennedy was two years old, his parents moved to Carlisle Street, St Kilda for two years. His parents divorced shortly before World War II, and Kennedy was largely raised by his grandparents, "Pop" Kennedy (who had been an electrician at Melbourne's Tivoli, Royal and Bijou theatres) and "Grandma Scott," to whom...
