Ruffling feathers
Did Michele Hewitson (“Hanging tough”, November 27) and Greg Dixon (The Good Life, November 27) know something that no one else did? Did their Lush Places “pillow talk” lead them to collude and contrive to write about Judith Collins and her imminent “foul/fowl” downfall? Both the article and the column were at once insightful and entertaining. Prophetic even?
I was a student at Matamata College in the same year as Judith Collins. She was intelligent, ambitious, studious. She was also ruthlessly competitive, with a condescending malice for those she regarded as inferior. At the time, this could have been dismissed as perhaps the stereotypical teenage girl. Nonetheless, she was not well liked by her peers, which didn’t bother her one bit. It seems the “leopard” (or wyandotte chook?) was not willing or able to change her spots.
Marguerite Vanderkolk
(Matakana)
LETTER OF THE WEEK
THE BEATLES REBORN
DL Calder (Letters, December 4) makes some interesting points about the release of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back series.
Rather like the DVD released in 1970, however, he focuses a bit too much on the negative whereas is an unbridled celebration of joy and a reminder of just how wonderful the Beatles were when they focused on the music and nothing else. If the latest release contained nothing else apart from the rooft op concert in its entirety, it would be brilliant, but to be treated to so many other worthwhile delights itself – was just mind-blowing.
