The film adaptation of the play, The Sum of Us was released in Australia on this date in 1994. Directed by Jeff Burton and Kevin Dowling, with a screenplay by David Stevens, the movie starred Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe as a widowed father and his gay son looking for their versions of true love.
A slave’s day left very little time for contemplation. Siobhan found that almost comforting; she wasn’t ready to face her situation. By the time she had been sent to sleep in an alcove behind Proximo’s sleeping quarters, she was exhausted; but she still couldn’t sleep. Time to face facts. Sid had somehow found a way Read More …
The whitewashed room was large and sparsely furnished; food was piled on a rough-hewn wooden table. An enormous fire hung with well-used, battered cooking pots dominated one end. Weird. She’d never seen this sort of room anywhere at the Point. Looking down, she realized that her clothes were different as well. Her jeans and tee-shirt Read More …
One of the things I’m having fun is going through the archives of “old” stories that were on the original Gaslight site, particularly those that feature “life at the Point,” because the creativity and love that was poured into the stories. The place where our characters play becomes a Shangrila, a “Rivendell” of sorts, on Read More …
On this date, the biographical movie Hammers Over the Anvil had its’ Australian release. Starring Charlotte Rampling and Russell Crowe, the screenplay by Peter Hepworth and (the film’s director) Ann Turner, was adapted from the novel of the same name, written by Alan Marshall.
Well, it has been a long time in coming, but Ive finally uploaded some more stories into our Archives, stories that Id had earmarked for some time to bring back to the fold, but Life has been interesting here in my household for some time and Ive just now gained breathing room to tackle the stuff Read More …