Robert Forster
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"Robert Forster" is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (film)/Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actor. He has recently appeared as George Clooney's father-in-law in Alexander Payne/Alexander Payne's The Descendants (film)/The Descendants and as an Army general in Antoine Fuqua/Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen. He is a member of the Triple Nine Society.

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The other thing about this reunion tour is that we're not all being represented by different lawyers and travelling in different tour buses and there are no rows about who gets to walk onstage first each nights - the sort of situation that we know exists on other reunion tours. We're doing it as friends.

There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean.

We're still seen as an oddity.

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.

The export ban has forced our beef industry to suffocate in isolation but now there is a chance it can be revived by the financial oxygen generated through access to a wider range of freer-spending customers.

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.