Davida Allen Here’s my portrait of the artist at sixty. Queensland’s wonderful Davida Allen talks about rolling naked in blue paint as a sixteen year old Catholic schoolgirl for an English assignment, her obsession about the actor Sam Neil and the brilliant movie she directed FEELING SEXY. In today’s Qweekend Magazine in Brisbane’s Courier-Mail (no link to the actual story yet I’m afraid…)
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