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Once again I’ve been distracted from reading my assorted LitBios of Eleanor Dark because I have been busy close-reading Garry Kissane’s award-winning biography of George Johnston (1912-1970) so that I can lend it to a fellow booklover.
Winner of the Age Book of the Year in 1986, this biography is interesting in its own right but also because of the persisting view that (as Wikipediasuggests) it was the imminent publication of Johnston’s Clean Straw for Nothing that prompted his wife Charmian Clift (1923-1969) to suicide in 1969. It is said that this is because the characterisation of Cressida Morley in the novel exposes Clift’s infidelities during the couple’s sojourn on the Greek island of Hydra where they lived from 1954 to 1964. A posthumously published essay indicates that Clift was troubled by it, but Johnston in his one public comment a couple of months after her death said that ‘Cressida was fictional’. The fact that Cressida the character in the novel is not a writer as Clift was, is also taken by some as an indication that Johnston was diminishing her as a writer and his collaborator. Whatever about that, Garry Kinnane makes it clear that he rejects the accusation:
It is the view of many of their friends, and many who
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(Director and Producer), also known as “Gaga,” is a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He was born on February 7, 1959 in Nis, Serbia (formerly Jugoslavia). He attended the University of Arts in Belgrade.
After his graduation, Antonijević began his career with several short documentary and television films such as, Builders of the Future, Guests at Gostilj, Wells of Rados Modricanin, and How Man Was Forged at Lower Jaukovac. It was shortly thereafter in 1984, at 25 years old, where he debuted into the feature film universe with a project he directed and wrote, Speak No Ill of the Dead. The film went on to win the UNICEF award at the Venice Film Festival. His next film was The Little One, which also won several awards including the Best Directing Award and the Audience Award at the Herceg Novi festival. It also won numerous awards at the Film Festival in Nis.
Following The Little One’s success, Antonijević directed Savior. Released in 1998, the film was produced by Academy Award winner Oliver Stone and Emmy winner Janet Yang. The film went on to win the Political Film Society Award as well as Best Actress at the Sochi International Film Festival.
In 2002, Antonijević directed Hard Cash, an action-crime thriller starring Christian Slater and Val Ki
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