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The pain of watching my favourite film flop find mainstream success (opens the original)
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The revival of interest in Grease 2 over recent years has been confusing for me as a long-term fan. The film was not just a critical and box-office flop, it was a notorious critical and box-office flop, though I didn’t know this when I first watched it as a tween and I certainly would never have guessed it. Grease 2 was raucous and riveting. It cast a spell on me. Made in 1982 and starring a young Michelle Pfeiffer, it’s a film I watched about a thousand times throughout the ’90s. Not only do I
Podcasters and YouTubers talk too much. Here’s my secret to silencing them (opens the original)
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“Speak only if it improves on the silence” is a quote I think about a lot. I don’t know where I first read it. Probably, embarrassingly, on some cheesy Instagram reel. It’s not clear who said it first. Sometimes it’s attributed to Mahatma Gandhi; other variations are linked to Jorge Luis Borges or Pythagoras. But the sentiment lives on in my head because I’m always looking back on past conversations and wishing I had said less. And because I often find myself in situations where I wish it were a
Of course I’ll finish my novel, just as soon as you give me that Aegean villa (opens the original)
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Like many people, I am a huge procrastinator. And like many writers, my favourite procrastination activity is filling out application forms for fully funded writers’ residencies in glamorous locations.When I first discovered this time-wasting outlet, I’d write sensible applications, summarising my modest credentials and outlining reasonable project proposals. But these days – as I’ve filled out more and more – my applications are full of experimental, genre-defying prose. I guess you could descr
A horror film gave me nightmares. Decades later, it was time to try again (opens the original)
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When it comes to movies, I am a chronic, lifelong wimp. Graphic violence, gore, paranoia and dread – I’ve spent most of my life avoiding this stuff. But this winter, with horror-movie hype reaching fever pitch, I jumped on the bloody bandwagon. My horror of horror began when I watched The Shining, aged nine, at our next-door neighbours’ house, while our parents had a dinner party together. I sat through the whole thing in a state of pure, wretched terror. There were months of nightmares. My pare
Sophie Quick | The Age (opens the original)
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Grease 2, the critically panned sequel to Grease, has been rediscovered – but I am reluctant to share the joy. The books of Colm Tóibín bring me relief from our noisy world. I’ll keep applying for glamorous writers’ residencies because I’m not delaying - really. I admit it, I’m a wimp. So why did I rush to see the year’s buzziest fright fests? The King of Ithaca confused me as a child. I’m wary about seeing what Christopher Nolan has done with him. An erratic home entertainment journey left me r
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