What a whirlwind the world of the arts can be. Gabrielle Carey who changed forever the image of teenage girlish life and then went in a thousand other directions is dead and the world gasped. All you could say was poor fellow my country. The Sydney Film Festival which is soon to be upon us has a film, The New Boy, by that notable indigenous director Warwick Thornton which has Cate Blanchett as a remarkable nun looking after black kids as well as a new star, Aswan Reid.