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Irish Eye on Hollywood: March / April 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by 1 Comment

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in The Irishman.

THE IRISHMAN FOR 2020? It’s time for Academy Award predictions – for 2020!  It’s never too early to look ahead and see which films Hollywood honchos are positioning as Oscar bait, to lure crowds away from their iPhone apps and Netflix accounts. The influential show biz web site IMDB.com ranks The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s next movie (to be released by Netflix, of course), as … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: March / April 2019

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Netflix Buys The Irishman

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2017

March 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Speaking of how radically the entertainment business is changing, anticipation has been building for the Martin Scorsese-Robert DeNiro-Al Pacino gangster flick The Irishman. The film will tell the story of Frank Sheeran, a hitman known as “The Irishman” who claims to finally have the answer to the endless question – who killed notorious Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa? (Hint: he’s … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Netflix Buys The Irishman

Pacino Does Wilde

By Patricia Danaher, Contributor
April / May 2012

March 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The American actor was in Ireland to pick up an award for his documentary on Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. Al Pacino was back in Ireland in February for a very fond return visit and to be presented with a Volta Lifetime Achievement award by President Michael D. Higgins. Guest of honor at the 10th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, he also screened his documentary Wilde … [Read more...] about Pacino Does Wilde

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Forrest Reid, Irish novelist and literary critic, was born on this day in Belfast in 1875. To this day, Reid is regarded amongst the likes of J.M. Barrie and Hugh Walpole as a pre-war British boyhood novelist. His most famous work was Young Tom, for which he won a James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1944.

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