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Mourning the fact I can't go see @lostboysmusical because I live in a different continent 💔 Anyway, little David doodle because I am absolutely obsessed with how the musical has styled him ‼️‼️ 12 year old me would absolutely lose her mind knowing this existed.
Mac (Graham Kennedy) and Jody (Veronica Lang) dancing in Don's Party (1976) dir. Bruce Beresford for @grahamkennedy
I haven't seen the entire article yet but the press is starting to bite. I'm not sure if they plan to go fully in before the coronation but the gloves will definitely come off right after. I presume W&K will get the most flack and it won't only be harping at their work ethics or lack thereof in general, they're aiming for the "Brits don't know their future King and Queen" angle. The Prince of Wales to Prince of Wales comparisons that will probably start coming out towards the end of the year won't be pleasant either.
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1647334724203937792?s=20
EXCLUSIVE: A shocking report reveals that "the Royal Family as we know it is on the brink of collapse and risks abolishing itself by stealth
“Through death, scandal and resignation the Royal family is increasingly reliant on a few hard-working members, with Charles, Anne and Edward, doing almost half the work.
“We now need new working royals or will have to accept a Royal Family that is more distant from the people than at any time in the past 100 years.”
The King and Princess Anne are named as the “hardest working”, with the latter having a slight edge in the total number of UK-based engagements between 2012 and 2022.
The research is based on data compiled by Tim O’Donovan, a retired insurance broker who has recorded engagements listed in the Court Circular since 1979.
Civitas claims family members over the age of 70 are responsible for the greatest share of engagements and warns of a potential “shortage of royals”.
The Duke of Kent is 87, Princess Alexandra is 86, the Duke of Gloucester is 78 and the Duchess of Gloucester is 76.
It fears that the number of royal engagements could “shrink to barely 1,000 a year” over the next decade.
That's part I find most significant. Amazingly they don't call out Will & Kate directly.
Most of the article is written from the perspective of adding more working royals such as Beatrice & Eugenie, which is never going to happen. Also, someone goes on to say that Zara should be a working royal! As if!
But royal broadcaster Michael Cole disagreed, saying: “Slimming down the Royal Family is in tune with the tough times faced by millions.
“Never again will we witness more than 20 members of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham palace.
“The King knows instinctively this sends the wrong message. And he’s right.”
Beatrice, Eugenie, & Zara are never going to be working royals, and none of them want to be.
But the looming problem remains of the heir apparent and his wife doing almost next to nothing.
The Year of Living Dangerously was released in Australia on 17 December 1982 (it was released in the US in February 1983).
Peter Weir and David Williamson adapted Christopher Koch’s 1978 novel, working from Koch’s initial screenplay (Koch claimed that he was responsible for %45 of the final film).
It was the first Australian film financed by a major US studio.
Wallace Shawn and Bob Balaban were both considered for the part of Billy Kwan before Peter Weir saw a photograph of Linda Hunt and approached her about playing the part.
The Year of Living Dangerously was a critical and commercial success, and Hunt received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
There was a bunch of Australians that had a huge influence on me as a young man growing up in Melbourne, who were certainly non-conformists. Germaine Greer, in particular, Barry Humphries, Norman Gunston, Brett Whiteley, the wonderful cartoonist, Michael Leunig, the playwright, David Williamson. It was not that I agreed with their opinions on things, or their politics, as people’s politics and opinions have never concerned me that much, it was rather that they were there as a cultural irritant, chaos-makers, scallywags, tricksters, a source of vexation within the culture, as it stood, not against the political system as such, although there was that, but rather an affront to Australian culture itself. They stirred things up, in their own singular way, shocked us, outraged us, made us laugh. I loved these people. I still do. I carried something of them with me when I left Australia. They gave me permission to remain outside of things, be my own person, to rub things the wrong way. They showed me that there was a solemn duty as an artist, to challenge, to offend, to piss people off, in particular my peers. That impulse was absorbed into my bloodstream, as an Australian growing up in Melbourne in the ’70s. I felt proud to be an Australian as I travelled around the world, because I saw that my Australianness, in and of itself, was a kind of agitating agent. We Aussies were just too loud, our gestures too big, our ideas too perverse, we were too funny. I still naturally respond to people who have that dissonant spirit, although they are of course a dying breed. You mentioned Morrissey. He made an enormous amount of exceptionally beautiful music, lest we forget, but he remains forever a thorn in the side of the prevailing cultural mood. Morrissey has the audacity, the courage, not to be boring. I admire that. Thank God there are some people like that still kicking around. As for advice, I’m not sure I have any, other than to say, don’t spend too much of your precious time trying to please people. Most people, in the end, respond to authenticity, they yearn for it, and they will seek you out if they recognise in you that genuineness. It is the artist’s way to be at least that. Authentic. Genuine. Real. So be true to yourself, and what will come will come.
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Hello again
I must admit it has been a while since I last posted anything here. However there are too many reasons to go into at this time.The main thing is I will try and post at least one shot a week for you to see. Like this one taken at an art gallery not too far from where I live. The camera was very new at the time and this is the one shot that convinced me that my decision was the right one, The work…
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Road Head by Japanese Breakfast from the album Soft Sounds From Another Planet - Directed by Michelle Zauner
From this front page - is the backlash to the Wales’ engagement numbers here?
What does irk though is that (yet again!) The King is being scapegoated. If they’re looking over the last decade, shouldn’t this warning have been sounded to the late Queen? Also in that time there was also the matter of COVID lockdowns which restricted public engagements. I would respect this reporting more if it specifically called out William, now the heir apparent, who is definitely not carrying the weight due his station.
https://twitter.com/tmorrowspapers/status/1647334724203937792?s=46
I haven't read the full article yet, but some of this was always going to happen due to slimming down the monarchy.
EXCLUSIVE: A shocking report reveals that "the Royal Family as we know it is on the brink of collapse and risks abolishing itself by stealth
