Sign at the Greerton shopping centre, Tauranga. The total cost of rescuing a stranded Matt Damon in all of his films (including Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and The Martian) is an estimated $900 billion. In the 1980s and 1990s, Nintendo had "game counsellors" who operated telephone hotlines and walked people through tricky parts of video games. No one noticed that one of the best musicians in the world had played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth $3.5m. Three days earlier, Bell had played to a full house at Boston's Symphony Hall, where seats went for more than $100.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 22, 2020 16:01 UTC