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To the Wellington pricks

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Nov 21, 2024
  • 2 min read

Why are you so surprised, Golriz? Like, I've been moaning about that hui for quite a while.


James and Cass must cease. Non-negotiable outcome. After all this crap, those theatre dorks simply have to let me make my own creative decisions. They can believe that they were being magnanimous in 2021, but they came to the movie to point out that they actively disliked hearing me sing on the way to work.


Again, I wasn't even charged with any type of noise complaint, because they decided that this was a 'better' way to handle things. - As Justin the FTAC guy would attest, meeting me in person - and letting me say my piece about my feelings for Chloe - dispelled most of the myth.


I will admit there were times that I thought Nadine wasn't real, but that was her fault for refusing to be a public person (despite being a party flunkie), and the fault of the Greens for deliberately cultivating that belief to exploit me.


- James and Cass were unable to accept this idea that they had to email me and communicate about my IP. They simply believed that they had the inherent right to use my material for their benefit because they had been to New York and they had been funded to make plays, books, but NOT movies. James is a frustrated filmmaker: that's why he thought he could use my stuff to make his big splash as a director.


And no, I refuse to direct them, coach them or in any way assist them BECAUSE of their bullshit and their 'jokes' in my porn feed. Illegal jokes, I might add. They lost the opportunity to use my stuff after their theatrics at West Side Story. I honestly expect Tam to fire them. In fact, I might boycott Question Time until Tam does.

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The only reason that they are interested in my stuff is because Sondheim was.


What I'm saying to the talent army is communicate with me via email or msg or fuck off.


I'm serious: no tina ha, no tina play, no cabaret evenings. NO.

Tory, simply apologise and tell them to do likewise.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 2024

So, yeah, Johnny: get this sorted or I stop coming entirely. Chloe can cope without me. Well, maybe she can't, but she'll have to if this doesn't get resolved.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Nov 21, 2024
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I'm serious, Johnny. Tell Tam that this would really hurt the party if it became public knowledge without the apology that I'm asking for. Because it would: it proves what everyone's always believed about the entitlement of the Greens. They thought they were above the law because I was breaking it (for a nobler reason). I was protesting an unjust law; they used my transition as a way of deligitimising me, and minimising my IRL experience of assault, abuse and catfishing.


To them, it was all one big joke: they got to laugh at the poor person down the road.

Now, that person has powerful friends, scripts that the Film Commission wants to fund, and is simply asking for you lot to…


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