The director of Driving Miss Daisy and Breaker Morant writes about his passion project – bringing Madeleine St John’s Ladies in Black to the big screen
I always expected that many of the lively group I associated with at Sydney University in the early 60s would, over the years, produce a steady stream of novels and plays. Oddly, this didn’t happen, or at least it hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t, as the survivors are now all in their late seventies.
A number became journalists, quite a few became actors (John Bell, the most acclaimed) and several have published memoirs – not novels. Les Murray and Clive James emerged as major poets and Robert Hughes became internationally known as an art critic, while the loquacious and dynamic Germaine Greer became world-famous after the publication of The Female Eunuch in 1970.
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