Rachel Robbins
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Writer-Performer based in the North of England. A joyous, flawed mess.
Please read my stories and enjoy. And if you can, please leave a tip. Money raised will be used towards funding a one-woman story-telling, comedy show.
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Casablanca (1943)
In 1942, Janis Wilson was working on her first film – Now Voyager, playing the young Tina, a neglected child to be adopted by Bette Davis’s Charlotte Vale. And in breaks from her filming she would sneak onto an adjourning lot and watch the movie that some of her co-stars were filming in overlapping schedules.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Gene Tierney (1920 - 1991)
Every few years a newspaper publishes an opinion piece by a woman writing about how she struggles to make friends, but is still successful because of her ‘pretty’ privilege. The comments section suggests that most people do not, in fact, find her attractive and that she is kidding herself. Because even though we know that there is a privilege to prettiness (to the extent that we don’t want to face the world with a pimple, or a ‘bad-hair' day), we don’t want to hear about it. It feels like bad taste to suggest you are a person benefitting from looking good.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Palestinian Embroidery
For anyone struggling right now, please remember, human beings are not equipped to deal with the bombardment of violent imagery on our news-screens. I cannot take in another broken child, a devastated family, a fragment of a lost life. I know I should be bearing witness. I know my pain is not equal to theirs.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Art
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
I am a big Doris Day fan. When I went away to university I had a poster of her in my student halls room (alongside one of Billie Holiday, because I’m nothing if not quirky and eclectic). I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on Day, despite her making her last movie before I was born. I had seen Calamity Jane as a young girl and it left a lasting impression on me. I was entranced by the feisty young woman who had to mould herself into the ideal of womanhood. I loved her energy, her physical comedy and her sweet singing.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Three Classic British Films to Watch for the Fever-Dream Experience
I have been blessed/cursed with being a vivid dreamer. Last night, I dreamt about touring with Midge Ure from Ultravox, as his comedy support. (There was also a sub-plot scandal involving footballer, Wayne Rooney). Midge and I were stuck on a motorway in a camper van full of leaflets and I could feel the gentle humming of the engine as we panicked about making our next gig. I woke up with my hefty cat, sitting purring on my chest.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
