Catching Up with Juliet and Pauline

012: Heavenly Creatures

The stars of Heavenly Creatures were two troubled souls. The act they performed in the movie made the "based on real events" tag much more intriguing. Like so many other people who see movies based on reality, I looked up Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker.

The first thing I found was that Juliet is now Anne Perry, a famous novelist. According to Wikipedia, "After serving several years in prison in New Zealand, Juliet was released. She returned to England, where she became a flight attendant. She eventually settled in the United States, where she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She later settled in Scotland." Way to make a life for yourself.

Pauline Parker became Hilary Nathan, and runs a children's riding school. That website, whatever it is, explained, "Pauline Parker is now running a children's riding school at Hoo, near Rochester, Kent, under the name of Hilary Nathan. She studied at Auckland University, graduating with a BA before training as a librarian and moving to Britain in 1965. She settled in Kent, retrained as a teacher, and taught mentally handicapped children at Abbey Court special school in Strood until her retirement three years ago, by which time she had become deputy headmistress."

Thank you internet, for updating us on these girls' lives. Another interesting tidbit is that Kate Winslet is now a famous actor. Honest!

Posted by Matt J. at 10:16PM on 03/31/05 in 012: Heavenly Creatures | Comments (3)

Candy

013: Candy

Internally, I'm going to start referring to this movie as Candy: The Night That Never Was. Truth is, we tried to screen this two months ago and my DVD player broke. Sorry Megan, I know it took months for you to choose this movie. We're making up for it by giving it another go. This time, I've got a backup plan in case things go awry.

Candy is erotic satire, apparently. It was adopted from Terry Southern's novel, which is based on Voltaire's Candide. The book was a much greater success than the film, which is fine by me as I prefer my erotic satire to be accompanied by a thumpin' soundtrack. And now, here are the deets.

When: Friday, April 8th at 7pm
Where: Matt's Place
RSVP: To Matt via email
Film: Candy (1968) [Allmovie.com Description]

Posted by Matt J. at 9:57PM on 03/31/05 in 013: Candy, Announcements | Comments (0)

Heavenly Creatures

012: Heavenly Creatures

We already watched this movie, but I wanted to add it for posterity's sake and so we'll have a category to discuss it in. Here for the details of the event.

When: Sunday, March 27th at 7pm (movie at 7:30)
Where: Jen's place
RSVP: To Matt via email
Film: Heavenly Creatures (1994) [Allmovie.com Description]

Posted by Matt J. at 9:40PM on 03/31/05 in 012: Heavenly Creatures, Announcements | Comments (0)

We're Still Alive, Honest!

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Just thought I'd let you know that we didn't go away, we just took a break. We're back now and with a furry. Last week we got to together and we're getting together again on Sunday. If you click on those links they'll take you to the two relevant events.

Good times.

Posted by Matt J. at 9:33PM on 03/31/05 in Site News | Comments (1)