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Nicola Moriarty HarperCollins, $32.99 Credit: Nicola Moriarty is the youngest of the Moriarty sisters (her elder siblings Liane and Jaclyn are also bestselling authors), and her latest will have you turning pages in a blur to find out what happens. Set in the affluent inner suburbs of Sydney, the novel begins with a likeable young nurse, Georgia, falling for a white knight, Luke, who saves her from some low-level sexual harassment when shes been stood up by a Tinder date. The romance proceeds rapidly, but soon encounters a snag: Lukes ex-girlfriend Cadence is having trouble letting go. She starts stalking and menacing Georgia online. Then things go missing from Georgias apartment. As Cadences behaviour escalates, Georgia must take matters into her own hands and thats as much as any reviewer can say without giving the game away. A fast-paced, pulpy psychological thriller with Netflix written all over it. You Will Be Safe Here Damian Barr Bloomsbury, $29.99 Credit: Its almost two novellas entwined, rather than a debut novel, though theyre strikingly united by Damian Barrs vivid and surprising prose style and vaulting gift for metaphor. The first narrative, set during the Second Boer War, follows the excruciations of Sarah van der Watt, a Boer rebels wife interned in the Bloemfontein concentration camp by the British, after her farm is burned to the ground. Kept in inhumane conditions, Sarahs hatred swells and the seeds of apartheid (Sarah reserves special rancour for black farmhands who switch sides to support the British) are planted. Over a century later, in a story based on the horrific murder of Raymond Buys in 2011, a South African teenager enters a safari training camp in fact a paramilitary organisation with white supremacist overtones. Barr traces a history of violence with compassion and a sweeping poetic intensity. Faded Yellow By The Winter Scott Pearce Reading Sideways, $34.95 Credit: Set in the town of Henrithvale in north-western Victoria, this is a haunting little novel that draws together elements of magical realism and sports writing, bush gothic and the Western, to create an unsettling and melancholy portrait of inexorable rural decline. The protagonist, Vic, battles against forces beyond his control to save his towns footy club, and the vast family orchards he grew up on. The legacy he wants to save isnt exactly benign. Memories of patriarchal violence persist even as Vics home decays into a ghost town, from the Avenue of Honour planted to commemorate World War I to the shadow of his fathers private reign of terror. On the footy field, Vic feels alive; off it, his increasing dislocation from his wife and daughters disturbs, and he risks becoming part of a wider vanishing act. A quietly evocative novel wreathed in beauty and despair. Most Viewed in Entertainment Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/books/fiction-reviews-lovecraft-country-by-matt-ruff-and-three-other-titles-20190701-p522xf.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed So, on the last night of school the girls decide to throw caution to the wind and join the party circuit, in matching navy-blue boiler suits. Chaos ensues.
Booksmart is riotously good fun. Plot-wise it most closely resembles another classic in the genre, albeit one Wilde doesnt cite: 2007s Super Bad, starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as the screen incarnations of writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Its surely no mere coincidence that Booksmarts Feldstein is Hills younger sister. Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever on the set of Olivia Wildes directorial debut, Booksmart.Credit:Universal But things have changed since then. This awesome generation is honestly so much more evolved than mine was at that age, says Wilde. So it is that the class of 2019 has characters who might look like stock types the jock, the bimbo, the stoner, the spoilt rich kid and at first thats how Molly and Amy see them too. But over the course of the film they come to realise their classmates are much more than that and so, too, are they. We wanted all of these characters at their core to be really kind people, says Wilde. Theres no villain. Theres no need for a villain. Its just misunderstood people, people whove been put into boxes and in some cases put themselves into boxes, like Molly and Amy have and they really learn to accept the complexity of themselves and their peers. Perhaps the comedy Booksmart most recalls is last years Blockers not because of the storyline so much as its tone and perspective. Writer Katie Silberman (stripes) and director Olivia Wilde (grey sweat, arms crossed) on set.Credit:Annapurna The teen comedy has tended to be a male-led genre, but Blockers in which a group of female friends pledge to lose their virginity on the night of the school prom, while their parents, who have accidentally stumbled upon their pact, do everything they can to prevent it flipped it. As raunchy and gross-out funny as any other entry in the field, it also managed to find room for a genuinely fresh and diverse depiction of young women taking charge of their sexual destiny. Booksmart, which had been languishing in development hell since 2009 before Wilde and writer Katie Silberman got their hands on it, goes even further, with characters exploring their identity and sexuality across the spectrum (an open-mindedness that has, naturally, attracted ire from some easily offended commentators). We maintained the core idea of two female best friends at high school who were very smart, and then we transformed their journey and made it something that felt really right for this generation, says Wilde. The idea of not being boxed-in has particular resonance for the actor-turned-director. She was raised between America and Ireland and took her surname (she was born Olivia Cockburn) from Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish writer who was jailed for his homosexuality in the late 19th century. A natural blonde, Wilde has talked in the past about how people used to be shocked that I wasnt stupid. I used to get these comments that I swear people thought were compliments. Like, Oh! Youre smart! like they couldnt believe it. Girls gone wild: Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) try pole dancing.Credit:Universal To me, she says: I think a lot of actresses go through that experience of feeling like they havent been given opportunities based on who others assume they can play. For me that certainly happened. Being a young actress in this business is very tricky because everyone wants to make you an ingnue, and its a weird role to fulfil. An ingnue is supposed to be this universally beloved, idealised version of a woman, and I think that is uninteresting in so many different ways. As you get older youre allowed to incorporate more complexity into characters. I always think of it as when youre too old to play dumb this business gets interesting. Whether or not the business is quite ready for Wildes kind of interesting remains an open question. Buoyed by great reviews and audience responses at Sundance and SXSW, the distributors of Booksmart opted to release the film on 2505 screens in the US last month, a massive number for an indie film with no recognisable stars (other than Wildes husband, Jason Sudeikis, in a supporting role). Olivia Wilde: 'People used to be shocked that I wasn't stupid.'Credit:Invision With an opening weekend box office of $US8.7 million the much-worse-reviewed Aladdin, on nearly 4500 screens, took $US91.5 million that punt has now been deemed a failure. (Its box office has now risen to a not-entirely disastrous $US20 million.) A raft of think pieces since have pondered whether this signals the end of indie cinema, which will henceforth have to live or die on streaming; whether the film fell afoul of an anti-feminist backlash; whether Wilde and co simply failed to get out the vote (the predominantly young female audience it was targeting); or whether the release strategy was just too much for a small film to bear. Whatever the case, Wilde whose direction is assured and imaginative enough to include a stop-motion fantasy sequence featuring naked dolls is convinced she has found the ideal role at last. I discovered that my happiest role on a film set was as a director, she says. Now acting seems so luxurious. I had days on set where I was envious of the actors because they got to show up and just feel things and then go home, and I thought, Well thats amazing. Thats what actors get to do, they get to dive into their emotions, they dont have to do anything logistical or bureaucratic in any way. But while directing is where she wants to head, that doesnt mean shes entirely done with acting. Not yet, anyway. I look forward to continuing to act so that I can learn from other directors, she says. Its the best way to learn, shadowing directors. Sounds pretty filmsmart to me. Karl is a senior entertainment writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Most Viewed in Entertainment Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/movies/olivia-wilde-on-booksmart-i-discovered-my-happiest-place-was-directing-20190627-p521xo.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed 7/3/2019 0 Comments Teen accused of rape deserves leniency because he's from 'good family', US judge saysNow the judge has been sharply rebuked by an appeals court in a scathing 14-page ruling that warned the judge against showing bias toward privileged teenagers.
In doing so, the appeals court cleared the way for the case to be moved from family court to a grand jury, where the teenager, identified only as G.M.C. in court documents, will be treated as an adult. New Jersey law allows juveniles as young as 15 to be tried as adults when accused of serious crimes, and the grand jury will weigh whether to indict him on the sexual assault accusation. In recent years, judges across the country have come under fire for the way they have handled sexual abuse cases. One of the most notorious was in 2016, when a judge in California sentenced a Stanford University student to six months in jail after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. After an intense public backlash, California voters recalled the judge. The sentence for Brock Turner, a Stanford University student who raped a woman at a college party, provoked widespread outrage. Credit:Greene County Sheriff's Office Troiano, who is roughly 70, was one of two family court judges whom appeals courts in New Jersey have criticisedin recent weeks over relatively similar issues. In the other case, the appellate division reversed another judge's decision not to try a 16-year-old boy as an adult after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 2017. The second family court judge, Marcia Silva, sitting in Middlesex County, denied a motion to try the teenager as an adult and said that "beyond losing her virginity, the State did not claim that the victim suffered any further injuries, either physical, mental or emotional". The appellate judges also upbraided Silva, overturning her decision and noting that the teenager could be culpable because the 12-year-old was not old enough to provide consent in the first place. Loading The judge in Monmouth County, Troiano, was scolded by the appellate court, according to the panel's decision. "That the juvenile came from a good family and had good test scores we assume would not condemn the juveniles who do not come from good families and do not have good test scores from withstanding waiver application," the panel wrote in its decision. A spokeswoman for the administrative office of the courts said the judges had no comment on the case. She said Troiano, a veteran judge who retired several years ago, was asked to occasionally fill vacancies on the bench. It is unclear from court documents when and specifically where in New Jersey the incident involving the two 16-year-olds took place. But prosecutors said it occurred during a party packed with 30 other teenagers. The victim was identified only as Mary, an alias to protect her identity. Before the episode, prosecutors said, both teenagers walked into a darkened area of the basement and Mary stumbled as she walked. "While on the sofa, a group of boys sprayed Febreze on Mary's bottom and slapped it with such force that the following day she had hand marks on her buttocks," according to court documents. Loading After the assault, prosecutors said, G.M.C. left the room, but some of his concerned friends checked on her. Mary was found on the floor vomiting, and she was driven home by a friend's mother. When Mary woke up the following morning, she was confused about her torn clothing and bruises on her body, and told her mother she feared "sexual things had happened at the party" without her consent, court documents said. Over the next several months, she learned that G.M.C. had shared the video among friends, but, when confronted, he denied recording the encounter and said the friends were lying, according to court documents. Eventually, Mary learned that the boy had continued to share the video, prompting her mother to contact the authorities and ultimately pursue criminal charges in 2017. In September 2017, the Monmouth County prosecutor's office recommended that the case be tried in adult criminal court in part because the boy's actions were "sophisticated and predatory". "At the time he led Mary into the basement gym, she was visibly intoxicated and unable to walk without stumbling," the prosecutor wrote. "For the duration of the assault, the lights in the gym remained off and the door was barred by a foosball table. Filming a cellphone video while committing the assault was a deliberate act of debasement." Loading The prosecutor said that the boy lied to Mary in the following months, while simultaneously sharing the video. "This was neither a childish misinterpretation of the situation, nor was it a misunderstanding," the prosecutor wrote. "G.M.C.'s behaviourwas calculated and cruel." In an interview, Christopher J. Gramiccioni, the county prosecutor said, "This is conduct that should be punished in adult court." "We subscribe to the idea that the juvenile system is supposed to be rehabilitative," he said. "But when you're dealing with charges as serious as these, it's a whole different ball of wax." Mitchell J. Ansell, a lawyer for the teenage boy, did not return requests for comment. Gramiccioni said New Jersey has a progressive juvenile system: Juvenile cases are not shown to juries, juvenile records are kept from public view and sentences are typically more lenient than when a person is tried as an adult. A recent law made it illegal to try defendants younger than 15 as adults. On July 30, 2018, Troiano denied the waiver to try the teenager as an adult, arguing that prosecutors had abused their discretion. Troiano said there was a "distinction" between "a sexual assault and a rape". He said "the traditional case of rape" generally involved two or more males using a gun or weapon to corner a victim into an abandoned house, shed or shack, "and just simply taking advantage of the person as well as beating the person, threatening the person". It was under those egregious circumstances, he said, that the state would try a juvenile in adult court. He delved into the facts of the case, questioning "whether or not this young lady was intoxicated to the point that she didn't understand what was going on". He said the boy's actions were not sophisticated or predatory, and dismissed G.M.C.'s text messages as "just a 16-year-old kid saying stupid crap to his friends". "This young man comes from a good family who put him into an excellent school where he was doing extremely well," the judge said. "His scores for college entry were very high." The appellate decision criticised the judge, writing that rather than focusing on whether prosecutors met the necessary standards for a waiver, "the judge decided the case for himself". The judge overstepped in deconstructing the circumstances of the case, making his own assessment of the boy's culpability and considering the defendant's prior good character, the appellate panel said. "His consideration of these elements, however, sounded as if he had conducted a bench trial on the charges rather than neutrally reviewed the State's application," the panel said. The New York Times Most Viewed in World Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/world/north-america/teen-accused-of-rape-deserves-leniency-because-he-s-from-good-family-us-judge-says-20190704-p523xi.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed "We've been given the opportunity to really rethink it from the ground up. We're not approaching it as a fusing of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night, but really trying to think about it as an entirely new festival."
Loading Both Fox and Obarzanek have been fixtures on the Australian arts festival circuit for some time. Beginning his career as a dancer, Obarzanek moved into choreography, founding Chunky Move in 1995. The multiple Helpmann Award-winner is chair of Melbourne Fringe Festival and a former artistic associate of MIAF, with works presented in the last two festivals. Fox's background is in innovative, large-scale live art, sound and music. Her work with outfit Supple Fox has included painting (real) sheep in bright colours for Britain's Latitude Festival, bringing parkour runners into the Tate Modern and staging a gothic choral work alongside the "Ferris Wheel of Death" at Dark Mofo. "One of my biggest takeaways from working on Dark Mofo has been understanding and not underestimating the audience," she says. "That's been really amazing to watch on that scale of proof that audiences of all sorts are really much more curious than they're often given credit for. Loading "[But] Hobarts a small town, it's easy to completely saturate it with a festival. This is very different: Melbourne has something on every night of the week [so] we need to strike a real point of difference." They have their work cut out for them. The Victorian government is promising the still-to-be-named festival will be of a scale never before seen, combining the budgets of the two merging festivals. It will run for 18 days next year from August 20 to September 6, with a mix of free and ticketed events. The pair is initially focusing on public, ceremonial-style events "really signature events that we hope to roll out for a long time", says Fox with their curation guided by notions of the "ancient" (public ritual, transcendence) and the "contemporary" (expressions of counterculture). Obarzanek says they will have equal responsibility for all decisions and are taking a collaborative approach."Therell be generally more people making curatorial decisions under our new model; we'll be bringing in other people from around Australia and overseas," he says. The new festival is set to be declared a major event meaning that, like White Night, its net cost is likely to be concealed from the public under commercial-in-confidence. Since it first landed in 2013, the Victorian government has refused to reveal the cost of White Night to taxpayers. However, as a registered not-for-profit, MIAF's financials are readily available. Last year the festival cost $11.8 million to put on, with more than half that ($6.3 million) funded by government, primarily through Creative Victoria. MIAF turned a $533,000 profit last year. While the state government has said the new winter arts festival will be led by a strengthened (and renamed) MIAF organisation, it is not clear whether the new body will retain its non-profit status and level of transparency. Melbourne's final standalone White Night will take place August 22-24, and the final MIAF on October 2-20, before they are replaced with the new winter arts festival next year. Hannah Francis is Arts Editor at The Age Most Viewed in Entertainment Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-s-epic-new-winter-arts-festival-announces-artistic-directors-20190702-p523e9.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |