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Italian Style

May 12, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

Italian Style   Italian film directors produce diverse and wonderful films. Paolo Sorrentino is one of my favourite directors. Sometimes I watch the exuberant party scene from La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) when I’m feeling a bit sad and need to recalibrate. Fellini’s,  La Dolce Vita is a magnificent film. Released in 1960, set in … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Australia, films, movies, Observations Tagged: Anita Ekberg, Cinquecento, Dolce Vita, Fiat 500, Fiat 500C, Fiat Bambino, Fiat Sports car, Frederico Fellini, Italian style, La dolce vita, Marcello Mastroianni, Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty

The Perils of Modern Life

March 24, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

  The Perils of Modern Life     I believe in censorship! If a picture of mine didn’t get an X-rating, I’d be insulted. Don’t forget dear, I invented censorship.                                      Mae West – actress, Hollywood legend and author of Sex (1926).   We live in strange times. 2022 has been marred by extreme climate … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, books, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Playwright, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Edwardian Literature, Elinor Glyn, historical, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Mrs Elenor Glyn, Three Weeks, Three Weeks a novel

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

January 27, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes   ‘I overheard Dorothy tell Major Falcon that she liked to become intoxicated once in a dirty while.’ Lorelei Lee from Anita Loos novella, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.   One of my favourite books is a hardcover 1926, tenth edition of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So popular was Anita Loos’ novella that … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Film, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, movies, writers & creatives Tagged: America, American, Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hollywood, Hollywood Movies, Howard Hawks, Jane Russell, Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Monroe, movies

Venus was her name

October 17, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

Venus was her name Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame The summit of beauty and love And Venus was her name She’s got it Yeah, baby, she’s got it …                                    Venus by Bananarama   For centuries artists have been enamoured by the mythological goddess Venus. Sandro Botticelli’s Venus is … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Mythology, Social Comment Tagged: Ancient Mythology, Art, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Greco-Roman mythology, Jeff Koons, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Sandro Botticelli, The Rokeby Venus, Toilet of Venus

On being Cary Grant

September 19, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  On being Cary Grant   ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.’                                           quote from Cary Grant who began life as Archie Leach.   I’ve been watching To Catch a Thief  again. It’s my favourite Cary Grant film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  The European locations are to die … [Read more…]

Posted in: actors, art/theatre event, movies Tagged: Alfred Hitchcock, America, American movies, Archibald Alexander Leach, Archie Leach, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief, USA

Ritual Madness

June 27, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

Ritual Madness   The Ancient Greeks were enthralled by opposing forces and heavily invested in two of their gods, Apollo and Dionysus. Apollo was the god of reason and wisdom – devoted to logical thinking, patience and duty. Dionysus was significantly more adventurous and dealt in the realms of imagination, play and chaos. Dionysus – … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Mavericks & Renegades, Observations, Psychology Tagged: Ancient Greeks, Apollo, Bacchus, Black Rock Desert Nevada, Burning Man, Burning Man Festival, Dionysus, Greek gods, Larry Harvey, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer

The Insanity of Love

March 22, 2021 by Lesley Truffle
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  The Insanity of Love    ‘Marriage is the tomb of love.’                    Giacomo Casanova   Some time ago I went to hear Alain de Botton – philosopher and author speaking about modern relationships and love in Melbourne’s gloomy town hall. I’m not sure our drafty town hall is conducive to love. The couple in … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Historical, Social Comment, writers & creatives, Writers & Readers Events Tagged: Alain de Botton, Augusten Burroughs, Baude Cordier, Casanova, Giacomo Casanova, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Love, Romance, The Romantics

Venus in Steel

January 13, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  Venus in Steel   He has the slimy assurance, the gross patter about transcendence through art, of a blow-dried Baptist selling swamp acres in Florida. And the result is that you can’t imagine America’s singularly depraved culture without him.                                                                                                                                                     Robert Hughes on Jeff Koons.   Jeff Koons has always been a divisive … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, artists, Australia, Melbourne, writers & creatives Tagged: Andy Warhol, Australia, Ilona Staller, Jeff Koons, Koons, La Cicciolina, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Melbourne, NGV, NGV Melbourne, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Venus, Venus de Milo, Warhol, Wilhelm Christian Myer

The Problem With Henry

August 17, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

The Problem With Henry                                        ‘I swear again, I would not be a queen  For all the world.’                    Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife.                                           Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth.   King Henry VIII has been receiving bad press for centuries. Shakespeare, along with later writers and playwrights, got in … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment Tagged: Anne Boleyn, film, films, Henry V111, King Henry, Lesley Truffle, movies, Shakespeare, The Private Life of Henry, the Tudors, Will Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Lascivious Lutes

July 11, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  Shakespeare’s Lascivious Lutes    ‘Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.’          Richard III by William Shakespeare.   I went to a girl’s high school in … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Historical, Playwright, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Elizabethan, King Lear, Lesley Truffle, Richard 111, Shakespeare, the Bard, Will Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

To Proust or not to Proust

March 12, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

To Proust or not to Proust   ‘One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory’. Rita Mae Brown   Memories get a bad wrap from quite a lot of folk, including Rita Mae Brown. Yet so many song lyrics dwell on memories. Love songs frequently combine memories with intense regret, and in turn … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, cakes and cooking, Film, Historical, Mavericks & Renegades Tagged: Alain Delon, cakes, childhood memories, Delon, France, French cooking, Lesley Truffle, madelaines, Marcel Proust, memories, memory, Proust, Remenbrance of Things Past, Swann in Love, Swann's Way, Un Amour de Swann

The Amorous Goldfish

December 19, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

  The Amorous Goldfish The first theatre play that I wrote, involved a character named Alphonse. I’d been fortunate in that I’d been offered a mentorship with a professional director. The Australia Council for the Arts also offered me a rehearsed reading in a city theatre with the director, professional actors and an audience. It was … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Melbourne, Psychology, writers & creatives Tagged: Alphonse, Australia Council of the Arts, goldfish, Lesley Truffle, The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte, Theater event

Is Big Better

July 20, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

Is Big Better? Recently I visited the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to loiter in the 19th Century European collection. There are many luscious paintings – including some massive heroic oil paintings – and a few sculptures of the era. Sitting plum in the middle of these works was a massive, glittering, stainless steel … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: 19th Century art, Art, art gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Balloon Dog, Big Is Better, Captain James Cook, Cook, Ilona Staller, James Cook, Jeff Koons, La Cicciolina, Michael Parekowhai, New Zealand artist, Parekowhai

The Man in the Moon

June 12, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

  The Man in the Moon Half a century ago Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin walked on the moon. On July 20 2019 their moon landing of July 1969 will be celebrated worldwide. Given that there’s no atmosphere on the moon, it’s possible that Armstrong and Aldrin’s footsteps may still visible on the moon’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, books, Film, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: A Trip to the Moon, American astronaut, astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, Coleridge, Edwin Aldrin, film, French film, French filmaker, Georges Méliès, Le Voyage Dans La Lune, Lesley Truffle, Méliès, moon landing, movies, NASA, Neil Armstrong, The First Men on the Moon., The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Peel Me a Grape

March 24, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

Peel Me a Grape Hollywood legend Mae West liked her men distinctly masculine. Her taste veered towards wrestlers, boxers, prize fighters, gangsters and musclemen. At 61 she took up with Mr California, Paul Novak, who was thirty years younger. He was one of the musclemen in her stage show at the time and he remained … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Golden Era Movies, Hollywood, Lesley Truffle, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Jane West, Peel Me a Grape, Salvador Dali

On Being Fabulous

February 20, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

    On Being Fabulous   Two nights ago I attended Madison Moore’s performative presentation at the National Art Gallery, Melbourne. Madison began his lecture dressed casually in gym gear but while talking about his influences growing up and how it felt to be marginalised, he slowly began a transformation. Madison began by cutting and … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, books, Fashion, Mavericks & Renegades, Social Comment, Writers & Readers Events Tagged: Dr Madison Moore, Fabulous The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, Fabulousness, Madison Moore, Prince

We are amused

October 13, 2018 by Lesley Truffle

  We Are Amused   What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us.                                                                                                                                                      … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Observations, Psychology, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Gustave H, Humor, Humour, Jim Carrey, Kidding, Lesley Truffle, Mark Twain, Monsieur Gustave H, Psychology, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson

Mirka’s Story

September 28, 2018 by Lesley Truffle

  Mirka Mora 1928-2018 ‘Every time you show your work, you really show your soul.’   Mirka I never met Mirka Mora, but she became one of my most favourite people. I only know Mirka through her paintings and her wonderful autobiography, Wicked but Virtuous; My Life. Whenever I stop to look at Mirka’s murals – they … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, books, Mavericks & Renegades, Melbourne, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Auschwitz, Carrillo Gantner, Georges Mora, Lesley Truffle, Marcel Marceau, Melbourne, Mirka Mora, Monsieur Mayonnaise, Nazis, Philippe Mora, Wicked but Virtuous

The Mad Boy

April 20, 2018 by Lesley Truffle

  Lord Gerald Berners was a talented musician and painter. He also wrote for the stage and his impressionistic paintings continue to sell well today (that’s Gerald in the photograph above). He converted Faringdon House, in Oxfordshire England, into a luxurious country mansion that soon had England’s fashion set vying for a weekend invitation. Exquisite … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, art/theatre event, books, Mavericks & Renegades Tagged: Cecil Beaton, Gerald Berners, Lesley Truffle, Lord Berners, Robert Heber Percy, Sofka Zinovieff

Murder on the Orient Express

November 16, 2017 by Lesley Truffle

  I made a discovery the other day – new born babies don’t enjoy going to the movies. I’d dropped by my local cinema to catch Kenneth Branagh’s, Murder on the Orient Express and didn’t realize that I was attending a ‘Babes in Arms’ movie session. It finally dawned on me – when I stumbled … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Observations, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, Lesley Truffle, Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot

Loving Vincent

November 8, 2017 by Lesley Truffle

  When Vincent van Gogh committed suicide in July 1890, aged 37, he’d only been painting for about a decade. He was immensely productive, despite suffering acute nervous attacks and paralysing depression. Vincent willingly spent money on art materials but he ate poorly and had lost most of his teeth by the time he was … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Observations, Social Comment, writers & creatives Tagged: animated film, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Lesley Truffle, Loving Vincent, painted film, Starry Night, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

Urban Cowboys

September 15, 2017 by Lesley Truffle

  Melbourne’s Deakin Edge is a strange venue. The whole construction slopes precariously down to the hardwood stage area. Vertigo was apparent on the faces of those pioneering their way down to the front rows during the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival. Rock icon, Tex Perkins (born Gregory Stephen Perkins), was onstage being interviewed by radio … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Mavericks & Renegades, Melbourne, Observations, Social Comment, Uptown Downtown, writers & creatives, Writers & Readers Events Tagged: Elizabeth McCarthy, Gin-ger Sea cocktail, Gregory Stephen Perkins, JimB's studio, Lava Lounge, lesleytruffle, Melbourne, Sergio Leone, TEX, Tex Perkins, The Deakin Edge, Thoreau, Urban Cowboys

It’s Raining in Space

November 17, 2016 by Lesley Truffle

  Terry Virts – US Air Force Colonel and retired NASA Astronaut – was in town last night at a School of Life event, talking about his three spacewalks and 200 days in space. Virts has been the Commander of the International Space Station (ISS), piloted the NASA space shuttle and flown on the Russian … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: International Space Station, Lesley Truffle, NASA Astronaut, space photography, Terry Virts

Les Tambours de Feu

October 7, 2016 by Lesley Truffle

  The Devil’s soldier drummers are increasing the beats. Their faces sinister with heavy black brows, masks of white makeup and strange white horns. We’re all hoping something wicked is coming our way. The Devil is now amongst us. He towers over everyone in his huge headdress of ram’s horns, beaked snout and flaming slashed … [Read more…]

Posted in: art/theatre event, Social Comment, Uptown Downtown Tagged: Cesar Arroyo, Deabru Beltzak, Garbitxu, Les Tambours de Feu, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne Festival, Oscar Castano, The Devil, Zuggarramurdi

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The Scandalous Life of Sasha Torte – in print by Harper Collins Australia & Bolinda Audio recording in English. read by Australian actor, Caroline Lee. I can confirm that being ensconced under a feather doona late at night – with rain pelting the tin roof – while listening to Caroline’s voice, was a delightful experience! … [Read more…]

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