Liam Neeson played German businessman Oskar Schindler in the acclaimed film Schindler's List. And he was recently seen on Broadway as a tortured Puritan in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. So why should anyone be surprised that the Ballymena-born Hollywood star portrays a Russian in his latest film, K-19: The Widowmaker? Neeson's ethnic-bending role is just one of several … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Recently we've seen hot young Dubliner Colin Farrell starring alongside Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Then there's Belfast's own Ciaran Hinds appearing in not one but two summer blockbusters. There's former Irish TV star Victoria Smurfit falling for Hugh Grant in About a Boy. And there's Cork-born theater legend Fiona Shaw falling for...Mira Sorvino? Dressed in drag? It's all … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood
Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
Hyping up Wilde in Earnest won't win Parker and Oscars. "Life is too important to be taken seriously," Oscar Wilde observed. He demonstrated that principle most dazzlingly in The Importance of Being Earnest, his 1895 play satirizing, among other things, the uselessness of British upper-class twits, the hypocrisy of would-be moral arbiters, the shallowness of social standing, … [Read more...] about Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest