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  • ‘A rare indulgence’: why Black Swan is my feelgood movie | ‘A rare indulgence’: why Black…

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    ‘A rare indulgence’: why Black Swan is my feelgood movie

    The latest in our series of writers explaining their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Darren Aronofsky’s dark and unusually satisfying ballet nightmare

    In early 2011, sometime after the film was released on home video, I sat down with mum to watch what she had heard was a “new ballet movie” by Darren Aronofsky. I was 12 years old, spending school nights training to be a professional dancer. Without any warmup, knowing very little of the pointe work that earned Natalie Portman her best actress Oscar, we pressed play on Black Swan.

    Well before Brendan Fraser’s time on the couch and the many houseguests of Mother!, Aronofsky increased the wattage with a companion piece to follow his heavy-hitter, The Wrestler. Watching Nina Sayers’ (Portman) intense physical trials and her stilted sexual awakening, with my mum beside me, I was understandably disturbed. At this point in my adolescence, I thought Jumanji was a scary movie. Like the film’s injured bird, I was being introduced to a darkness I didn’t understand. And somehow I couldn’t get enough. Why did it feel so good?

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  • Banned Swan falls well short in Brownlow Medal vote | Its inevitable that Brownlow win will make …

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    Banned Swan falls well short in Brownlow Medal vote

    Isaac Heeney polled 26 votes in the Brownlow Medal count. (Getty Images: Jason McCawley)

    Isaac Heeney finished outside of the top five in the Brownlow Medal count.

    Heeney was one of five Swans players stood down by the club following a post-match incident in Melbourne last month.

    The AFL has avoided the unwanted scenario of one of Sydney's suspended players winning the Brownlow Medal, with Isaac Heeney finishing outside the count's top five.

    The league had a contingency plan in place if Heeney had won the game's highest individual honour.

    But Nick Daicos's record-breaking number of votes, and prolific polling from Bailey Smith and Marcus Bontempelli, meant the plan never needed to come into play.

    Its inevitable that Brownlow win will make Daicos richer; Dockers star slams flight price gouging; AFL green-lights rookie rule change

    Nick Daicos will receive a financial windfall worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Brownlow win, including a bonus that was written into his Collingwood playing contract and proceeds from a marketing campaign that kicked off before the medal was even around his neck.

    A box of Nike T-shirts commemorating Daicos’ triumph arrived at Crown Palladium while the count was still in progress, while towering billboards went up around Melbourne.

    Nike, a Collingwood partner with whom the 23-year-old also has an independent deal, launched the campaign branded “inevitable” on the morning of the Brownlow count.

    Daicos is one of the small handful of AFL players who command such independent deals, earning more than $500,000 a year from commercial partnerships alongside his Magpies contract, which this masthead reported was worth $1.2-1.3 million last season and runs to 2029.

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    The most surprising votes from Brownlow Medal night

    We look at the games where the umps and coaches differed in their votes

    FROM unexpected threes to unexpectedly missing out, an entertaining Brownlow Medal count delivered some surprises on Monday night.

    Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos, as expected, claimed victory with a record 47 votes to win by 11.

    There were some anomalies when comparing Brownlow votes to votes in the AFL Coaches Association's Champion Player of the Year, but not as many as previous years.

    BROWNLOW TRACKER See every vote from every gameNICK'S NIGHT Daicos sets new Brownlow record with famous winYOUR CLUB'S BROWNLOW Every vote, first timers, biggest shocksTALKING POINTS Kozzy empty handed, Butters' shock vote, AA missesHAWK'S SHOCK The 23 times the umpires and coaches disagreedGALLERY All the pics from the 2026 Brownlow Medal red carpetMOTY/GOTY Wizard's wet-weather screamer, Lion's miracle voted best of the year

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  • ‘Pretty shattering’: Swan’s 12-month injury hell before finals breakout | ‘Makes us all walk ta…

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    'Pretty shattering': Swan's 12-month injury hell before finals breakout

    Logan McDonald endured a gruelling 12-month nightmare before exploding on the September stage, writes Riley Beveridge

    THE QUALIFYING final was a long time coming for Logan McDonald.

    A personal-best six goals, the highest-rated game of his career, and all of it in a resounding victory against the reigning back-to-back premier Brisbane that ensured an undermanned Sydney side would now host a preliminary final this weekend.

    "It probably was [my best ever game]," McDonald tells AFL.com.au.

    It had felt like a long time coming because, for McDonald, there had been periods across the last 18 months when he wasn't sure when he'd be back. And that's on a footy field, let alone in September.

    Swans plan to ‘quieten Wharfie Time’ as star details Curnow impact

    In November 2020, an 18-year-old Logan McDonald packed his bags, took a flight from Perth to Sydney, and joined Lance Franklin at the Swans. He was “in absolute awe” of the AFL legend.

    Six years on, the former No.4 draft pick is sharing a forward line with another superstar spearhead, three-time Coleman Medal winner Charlie Curnow, as the Swans chase a grand final berth.

    “I’ve been very fortunate to play with two of the best forwards ever,” McDonald said ahead of Sydney’s preliminary final against Fremantle at the SCG on Friday night.

    “Obviously, when I came in very young with Bud, I was in absolute awe of him and just looked up to him with everything he could do.

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  • Haberman and Swan’s “Regime Change”: How Trump became “untethered” in second term | An Exceptiona…

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    An Exceptional—and Depressing—Chronicle of Trump’s Return to Office

    In 1996, Joan Didion unholstered the X-Acto knife that was her pen and went to work on Bob Woodward. In a register of pitiless irony, she quoted Woodward’s earnest explanations of his journalistic methods—the difference between “background” and “deep background,” his “eight file drawers” of documents for a book on the Supreme Court. She was unimpressed. “These are books in which measurable cerebral activity is virtually absent,” Didion wrote. In the end, she determined that Woodward was engaged in the writing of “political pornography.”

    This was unfair, at best a category error. What Didion failed to note was that Woodward was a reporter, not a scholar or a belletrist, and that before he was thirty he, with his Washington Post partner, Carl Bernstein, had unearthed the predations of the Watergate scandal—hardly the work of stenographers in thrall to power. It brought down the Presidency of Richard Nixon. Journalism is a first rough draft of history, as they say, and scholarship, which feeds on journalism and so much more, plays by another clock. Robert A. Caro began the research for his multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson half a century ago.

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