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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Scatter the Stars
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'Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he is forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer Michael Matthews meets the once great Randy Storm, he is surprised to find a man who is at peace with himself. Both he and researcher Janie Callendar set out to discover the source of this inner peace. Meanwhile, his agent Ariel Margoles finds out that Australia's acclaimed film director Patricia Jordan is making the hottest Hollywood film of the year and she sees a chance for Randy to be a star once more. But just as Randy is about to reach his pinnacle, a secret from his past threatens to bring down his greatest triumph.'

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Notes

  • Epigraph: ...We come whirling out of the nothingness, scattering the stars like dust ... - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi 1207-1273.

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Australians and the Pacific Rim : The Contested Past in the Popular Fiction of Di Morrissey Rebecca Ling , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 2 no. 2 2013; (p. 211-220) 'Former print and television journalist Di Morrissey is Australia's biggest-selling writer of popular fiction. Her novels incrementally construct an Australia re-shaped for the new century through the interplay of significant social forces and demographic shifts. Her imaginary also places Australian culture within a global network of affiliations generated by the colonial and imperial past, as well as by more recent strategic alliances, and encompasses some of the darker elements of Australia's collective inheritance. The critical reception of Morrissey's work, however, has hitherto been scant and dismissive. Yet the Pacific Rim novels - Tears of the Moon, Scatter the Stars, Kimberley Sun, Monsoon, and The Plantation - can be read within perspectives afforded by dark tourism research and theories of cognitive dissonance, revealing that they subvert widely received understandings of Australia's relationships within the Pacific region and constitute a subliminal force for public education.' (Author's abstract 211)
Flynn-Like Flashbacks Cloud Stars Margaret Anderson , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 January 1999; (p. 10)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Priapic? Certainly Literary? Not Quite Debra Adelaide , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 January 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Feeling the Ground Shift Kathy Hunt , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 December 1998; (p. 15)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Good Morning, Hollywood : A Storm Warning Neil Jillett , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 November 1998; (p. 7)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Good Morning, Hollywood : A Storm Warning Neil Jillett , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 November 1998; (p. 7)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Feeling the Ground Shift Kathy Hunt , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 December 1998; (p. 15)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Priapic? Certainly Literary? Not Quite Debra Adelaide , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 January 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Flynn-Like Flashbacks Cloud Stars Margaret Anderson , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 January 1999; (p. 10)
— Review of Scatter the Stars Di Morrissey , 1998 single work novel
Australians and the Pacific Rim : The Contested Past in the Popular Fiction of Di Morrissey Rebecca Ling , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 2 no. 2 2013; (p. 211-220) 'Former print and television journalist Di Morrissey is Australia's biggest-selling writer of popular fiction. Her novels incrementally construct an Australia re-shaped for the new century through the interplay of significant social forces and demographic shifts. Her imaginary also places Australian culture within a global network of affiliations generated by the colonial and imperial past, as well as by more recent strategic alliances, and encompasses some of the darker elements of Australia's collective inheritance. The critical reception of Morrissey's work, however, has hitherto been scant and dismissive. Yet the Pacific Rim novels - Tears of the Moon, Scatter the Stars, Kimberley Sun, Monsoon, and The Plantation - can be read within perspectives afforded by dark tourism research and theories of cognitive dissonance, revealing that they subvert widely received understandings of Australia's relationships within the Pacific region and constitute a subliminal force for public education.' (Author's abstract 211)
Whatever Di Wants Caroline Baum , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 3 October 1998; (p. 8)
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Subjects:
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1950s
  • 1990s
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