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The Jakarta Post writers introduce you to “classic” movies you may have missed but that in some way changed their lives. Indiana Jones by Belinda Lopez

In the latest “contribution” to the Indiana Jones movie collection, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you can almost hear director Steven Spielberg whispering to (an increasingly hard-of-hearing) Harrison Ford through gritted teeth: “Please, just do the smile.” Read More

Published in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Radar section: Tall Poppy fears she’s wilting (January 26, 2006)

 

Fame has its price, Missy Higgins has discovered. Gone are the carefree days of playing gigs in nondescript pubs … and now everyone is accusing of “selling out”. Here is an extract from her diary, as imagined by Belinda Lopez

I’m going mad. I think I’ve sold out. When I was playing gigs in the shabby, minuscule backrooms of pubs frequented by even shabbier hippie and alternative types, I had cred. Read More