Stockland Beds Down Assets

STOCKLAND became the latest property player to wade into retirement homes with its purchase of a strategic 14.4 per cent stake in Aevum from Babcock & Brown. It paid $1.50 a share, or $26.9 million.

Pop Life

WIZARD PEOPLE Every B-grade DVD release seems to have an audio commentary these days, with unknown actors and directors hauled out of their retirement homes to converse about films they barely remember making. Providing an alternative soundtrack to someone else's film, though, is far more interesting. Arkansas comic-book artist Brad Neely created a stir when he released an unauthorised retelling of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - an audio book to be played over the viewing of the original ...