"Because I am pessimistic, I always expect the worst. When it doesn't happen, I have a nice surprise."
She was known for her icy cool blond poise and her ladylike charm, and when she marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956, it was seen the world over as a fairytale match — the prince had found his beautiful princess.
Born in Philadelphia to Margaret and John Kelly on … [Read more...] about Grace Kelly
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Every Oscar Is an Irish Win
By Adam Farley
How an Irishman Introduced Deco to Hollywood. Each year around this time the world awaits the presentation of the Hollywood awards in which the statue called “Oscar” is presented to those in the movie industry whom the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences considers to be the best in the business. Numerous Irish and Irish-born have been recipients of this prestigious … [Read more...] about Every Oscar Is an Irish Win
Golden Globe Moments and Oscar Nominations
By Tom Deignan, Contributor
February / March 2015
At the Golden Globes in January, Michael Keaton took home the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy prize for Birdman, beating out two other actors with Irish ties – Chicago-born Bill Murray, and Ralph Fiennes, who was born in England but raised in Ireland. St. Vincent (starring Murray as well as fellow Irish American Melissa McCarthy) was also nominated for Best Motion Picture … [Read more...] about Golden Globe Moments and Oscar Nominations
Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
By Joseph McBride, Contributor
August / September 2002
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 … [Read more...] about Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest
By Joseph McBride, Contributor
August / September 2002
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 … [Read more...] about Film Forum: The Importance of Being Earnest