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 Last Saturday evening at the Eastend Cinema   in Adelaide  Bill had a successful screening of his most recent film                      My Darling in Stirling Bill told me it was shown in a theatre holding about 100 people. "It was just short of a sell out, only 4 tickets left unbought. But, hey, around 100 people were there so a great success! I personally was pleased with how the film looked and sounded. At the Adelaide FF in October it looked and sounded horrible. So, on this front, a great success for me personally, and I think it also contributed to the audience being fully attentive to the film and appreciating it.                  Amelie Dunda in the central role, as a 19-year-old university student. It's a real crowd-pleaser this film, there was huge applause in the end. The film does have a light, joyful feel to it, which was my plan, but the audience response ha...

The Buffy Exposé When I was a very small child, although my family had a lot of music in it already, my sister Maureen brought into the family an LP record. On the front of the cover was an American Indian woman’s face. Blaze black hair. Big eyes. And lips of a strange shape. The record was called “It’s my way” . The singer? Buffy Sainte Marie.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9DF6H87Xc She had an interestingly warbly voice. Musical meaning: (a lot of) vibrato. She sang a song about a soldier who went to war but it was full of disconnect for my 8 or 10 year old ears. Who was this man?  He was: “five foot-two and he's six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears” "Universal Soldier"     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOuZwpGHJ7E He was: “all of 31 and he (was) only 17, Been a soldier for a thousand years” How could this be? It ...