Originally Posted by
djpil
Reminds me of when I asked Budd Davisson when he was coming to Melbourne "But its not on the way to anywhere!"
When she made the film of the Nevil Shute novel "On the Beach", about the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, the lead actress, Ava Gardner, said at the time that 'Melbourne is the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world'".