Cirrus@Austlit

'IF, AS SOMEONE SAID, “No man is a hero to his valet”, it is also true that every man is a valet to his hero. Well, as we make them, we can break them. So, I have cancelled Sir Douglas Bader. Others may choose to follow my example, but for now it is a personal cancellation, not a global one' 

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'AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS HAVE LONG TAKEN true-crime stories and stripped them for parts. Animal Kingdom imagined events on either side of the Walsh Street shooting, in which cops were gunned down in cold blood, while The Boys worked backwards from the murder of Anita Cobby, dramatising the world that created her killers.' 

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'EARLY IN FAT GIRL DANCING, author Kris Kneen offers a valuable insight into their creative process. “My motto,” they write, “has always been to run quickly and blindly towards the subjects that scare you. These will be the important subjects, the difficult discussions and the most revealing conversations.”' 

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