Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly a "significant respect for authority". Former criminal and celebrity Chopper Read produced numerous paintings of Ned Kelly, alluding directly to Sidney Nolan's imagery. One of Read's paintings features Kelly with a woman's breasts. He explained that "it relates to the fact that I think Kelly was a homosexual, ... I'm not really a fan of his. I'm tired of people calling me the modern-day Ned Kelly." However, Read compared himself with Kelly in some of his paintings. One such self-portrait titled "Tast Ful Old Criminal" ["sic"] was purchased amid controversy by the State Library of Victoria in 2003. "The Story
Ned Kelly (1970 film) the so-called youth orientated – particularly starring one of the new folk heroes. A.H. Weiler of the "New York Times" said, "Ned Kelly" grossed $808,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $7,716,400 in 2009 dollars. Ian Jones later wrote and produced (with his wife Bronwyn Binns) a mini-series on Kelly, "The Last Outlaw" which aired on the Seven Network in 1980. Australian actor John Jarratt starred as Kelly The actual body armour costume worn by Jagger is on display at the Queanbeyan City Library, New South Wales, and the initials "MJ" are scratched on the inside.