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He is arguably the most famous person to ever appear at Adelaide's Supanova fan convention. And John Travolta has certainly made the most of the golden opportunity, charging fans more than $500 for one signed photo.  Despite the hefty price tag, John's super-fans jumped at the chance to meet the 65-year-old Grease star on Sunday. Scroll down for video   Guest of honour: John Travolta (pictured) charged fans more than $500 for one signed photo at Adelaide's Supanova fan convention on Sunday Fans wanting a selfie with the Hollywood actor spent $250, while the deluxe package - a professional, signed photograph with John - went for $505. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next You're the one that I want... for half a million! Olivia... Olivia Newton-John's final 'Grease' ensemble fetches $405K Newton-John's 'Grease' outfit sells for more than $400,000 'I'd like to take you all home with me!' John Travolta cuts... Share this article Share 18 shares … [Read more...] about John Travolta charges $500 for ONE signed photo at Adelaide’s Supanova convention… but die-hard fans are still willing to pay for a picture

Richard Curtis, writer and director This film is my Pulp Fiction. I love multiple storylines, but I soon realised how tricky they are. At first, we had 14 different love stories, but the result was too long, so four ended up going, including two we'd actually shot. One was based on a poster in Alan Rickman's office of two women in Africa. The camera actually went into the poster and heard them talking about their daughters' love lives. Another involved Emma Thompson's son getting into trouble at school and the camera following the harsh headmistress home. We thought we had a good mix of people who were quite famous and those who weren't. Funny how unbalanced it all looks today, now that Martin Freeman is the Hobbit, January Jones is in Mad Men, and Chiwetel Ejiofor is in 12 Years a Slave. I knew from the start I wanted Hugh Grant as the prime minister and Emma Thompson as his sister. And I wrote Martine McCutcheon's part for her, too. I even called the character Martine, though I had … [Read more...] about How we made Love Actually

"Days are where we live." Philip Larkin's line is one that seems to resonate with Chris Ware's new graphic novel. I say that not just because Larkin's bleakness is a tonal presence; but also because of that word "where". It casts days not as stretches of time, but as spaces. Ware, too, is concerned with the spaces in which we live. Building Stories comes as a big, exquisitely produced box containing 14 different booklets. They vary from pamphlets each page of which are around A2-sized, to a single narrow strip of paper, zigzag folded. A couple are bound in cloth or cardboard. They can be read in any order: and in combination they describe the lives of the inhabitants of a three-story building in Chicago. On the ground floor is the lonely old spinster who owns the building and rents out the apartments above, dreaming her way through memories of a life barely lived at all. The middle floor is home to a youngish woman whose boyfriend is routinely horrible to her. The top floor is home to … [Read more...] about Building Stories by Chris Ware – review

Stevie Smith was the first poet I read. I can’t remember how I discovered her; all I know is that I asked for her Collected Poems one Christmas. If the elaborately careful signature on the inside jacket is anything to judge by, I must have been about 15 at the time. I liked the fact that she was a swift read, her poems so wondrously succinct I sometimes wondered if they really counted as Literature. Far too many writers were, in my youthful opinion, far too prolix. But it was her tone that really delighted me. Her irony, her wit, that slight edge of malice: these things spoke to a moody teenager. Her voice was irresistible. Wanting more, I bought her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, and one grey Sunday – exactly the kind of dreary, slow-ticking afternoon she must often have endured in her Victorian villa, marooned in the outer reaches of suburban London – I sat down to read it. The shock was considerable. What’s this? I thought, a question that’s tricky … [Read more...] about Stevie Smith, steel soul of the suburbs

HG Wells is often catalogued as a pioneer of science fiction (which he was) with bestselling books like The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon. But he was also a great Edwardian writer of immense fame and influence who deserves to be remembered as a major literary figure, now somewhat eclipsed in the posterity stakes. But which of his 50 novels to choose? The Sleeper Awakes (a far-sighted portrait of a world enslaved by money and machines)? Love and Mr Lewisham (the tale of a schoolteacher who becomes a socialist but subordinates politics to family life)? Tono-Bungay (a brilliant satire on advertising and the popular press)? Kipps (a Dickensian comedy about one ordinary man's struggle for self-improvement)? Wells's fans will have their favourites. But I have chosen The History of Mr Polly, a novel from Wells's early middle age (he wrote it when he was 44), a delightful comedy of everyday Edwardian England that draws inspiration from its author's own life. Moreover, as Wells … [Read more...] about The 100 best novels: No 39 – The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)