Rachel Robbins

Joined April 2021

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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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The Legend of Lucille Ball
Lucy Ricardo: [Lucy gets caught spying on the neighbors] I was, uh... bird-watching! Ricky Ricardo: Bird-watching? Lucy Ricardo: Uh, yeah! Do you know that there's a yellow-bellied woodpecker on our lawn? Ricky Ricardo: No, but I know that there's a red-headed cuckoo in the living room.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
A Footnote to a Courtroom Drama. Top Story - July 2024.
Dear Reader, I’m going to suggest that if you are planning on reading this aloud, spend the previous evening shouting until hoarse. According to the fanzines of the time, that’s how Lauren Bacall found her depth, her gravel – and she would make the perfect voice-over for my story.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Fiction
Gypsy (1962)
When I imagine myself as a 1940s screenwriter, I am not a mother. I am hard-bitten, sassy, ambitious. There is no space for mothers in the writing room. I know that mothers and Hollywood don’t mix.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Alice Munro. Top Story - July 2024. Content Warning.
Alice Munro, short-story writer extraordinaire, died in May this year. I wrote a tribute. She was an excellent writer, with a precision and brevity that I love and admire.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Writers
Election (1999)
**Contains Spoilers** On Thursday 4th July, I settled in to watch Election (1999) – the black comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Director: Mike Newell Starring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, and Ian Holm Writer: Shelagh Delaney Just recently a friend posted on Facebook:
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Director: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Gloria Grahame, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan Writers: George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
In a Lonelier Place. Runner-up in 3:00 AM Challenge.
The screech and jolt of hard brakes forced Laurel out of sleep. The car careering around a bend, a rock raised in temper. She had both been in the car and watching the car side swerve into the headlights of another driver. A strangled scream. Dizzy. Disorientated.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Fiction
Fame in the Twentieth Century
Back in the old days (the 1990s) the TV critic and author, Clive James, wrote a documentary series and book about the phenomenon of Fame.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Journal
The Women (1939)
The Women (1939) is a comedy drama directed by George Cukor featuring an all-female cast. But as the tag-line says, “It’s All About Men!”
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
I used to have a very serious job, researching domestic abuse and homicide. It was worthwhile, it was rewarding, it was beneficial to society, but it was not fun.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Delicious Nightmares. Top Story - May 2024.
There is nothing novel in the observation that a good cinema experience is akin to a waking dream. We sit in darkness and become enveloped in a world of images that we piece together to form a narrative. Sometimes the images overpower us and we struggle with the paralysis of a nightmare. And then the lights come back up and we take a breath to remember it was not real, we were not in that car crash, we were not in a fight, we were not a lover being romanced. And we need a moment between the last credit and the real world to gather our thoughts to find meaning in what we have seen.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Writers