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Hideous Kinky

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CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:01

Watching it now and think I saw it years ago? It's supposed to be good and based on real life?

Kids are cute Smile

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hester · 03/01/2012 00:02

Yes, it's based on RL. I know the author - distant relative.

My childhood was rather similar, though in South London rather than Marrakesh Grin

The book is really worth reading.

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:04

Ooo hester will you be my new BFF? Grin

Love interest alone makes it worth watching Wink

Thanks for book tip I'll get it, may be able to order it through the library?

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hester · 03/01/2012 00:06

I'm always up for a new BFF Grin

You might also want to look at a book by another friend called 'Mothers and other lovers' - kind of Hideous Kinky based in Truro. Us hippy children had a lot to work through...

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:09

Oh ds1 calls me hippy mother. He loves his 'hippy mum's quote of the day'. Typical 14 year old. I do read tarot, do reiki, have lots of 'hippy' frends etc.. but don't think I'd take them off to Morroco? Wink

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CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:12

I want those rugs, will go with the Moroccan paintings I did. I just love the vibrancy of Morocco. Never been but would love to. A friend goes, she has a male friend there. They don't speak each others language though, wonder what they have in common? Grin

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hester · 03/01/2012 00:15

Bless him, he'll probably become a Tory-voting estate agent just to spite you Grin. Not really, actually, all the hippy children I grew up with all still hold pretty much the same values they were raised with.

I think the mother portrayed in HK was very, very young - which probably makes a huge difference. Just like lots of young people who go wandering the globe today - only with children.

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:22

Oh he detests the Tories and the Daily Mail. I'm not a true hippy, live a very normal life now but could write a book myself on exdh's exploits and the rest. Keep saying to my friends I will one day but am too lazy tbh. Plus I could never get away with it being auto biographical as people would think it was fiction!

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GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 03/01/2012 00:24

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Stilla · 03/01/2012 00:24

I had a version of the book years ago as a freebie on a magazine , really enjoyed the book and have seen the film a few times.

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:28

I know they're fantastic actresses.

Just ordered it online at the library. Can't get the other book you recommended hester so will buy it.

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hester · 03/01/2012 00:29

The little one reminds me of Fairuza Balk, who was in REturn to Oz.

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:34

I don't think I've seen that one?

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hester · 03/01/2012 00:37

It's a follow-up to the Wizard of Oz, made in the 90s I think. Really creepy and scary (starts with Dorothy committed to an asylum because she won't stop talking about Oz, and taken for ECT). Not really for children, but she is marvellous in it.

Get0rf · 03/01/2012 00:37

I loved the book. It was fantastic, I highly recommend it.

Get0rf · 03/01/2012 00:38

Christ the wheelers in Return to Oz terrified me. As did the talking rocks. A brilliant film.

What happened to fairuza Balk, she was a promising actress, haven't seen her in anything since American History X.

Planetoftheeggnog · 03/01/2012 00:38

Yes, I've read HK and Peerless flats by E Freud - both great reads.

hester · 03/01/2012 00:39

Yes, the wheelers = stuff of nightmares.

Here she is in it: www.youngactressreviews.org/reviews/return_to_oz/fairuza_balk.jpg

hester · 03/01/2012 00:41

I think Fairuza Balk was in The Craft and American History x, not sure what she's doing now. She always played leftfield roles, didn't she? A bit Winona Ryder.

CuriousMama · 03/01/2012 00:44

Oh it's the posh wife from Benidorm Grin

Well I'll put return to Oz on my list of movies. If I get time to watch as have 5 books on order at the library now Wink

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katkitya · 03/01/2012 19:30

I love Morrocco. I would've loved to have travelled on the Marrakesh Express and dropped out!!

LottieJenkins · 03/01/2012 21:20

The authors mother has just died. She lived near me and was the most lovely lady! She went to hospital, told them she didnt feel well, was admitted and didnt come home.....Very very sad! Sad

Bibbob · 03/01/2012 21:22

The book was fantastic!

hester · 03/01/2012 21:29

The author's father just died, too. Very sad.

Selks · 03/01/2012 21:31

Good film. Brilliant book.

LottieJenkins · 03/01/2012 21:32

I think her mother and father died within two weeks of each other! Sad