By Tom Deignan Gabriel Before He Was Famous Legendary Irish actor Gabriel Byrne continues to make headlines – on the page and screen. Byrne’s new memoir – Walking With Ghosts – explores in sometimes painful detail the abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest when he was growing up, as well as an episode he described as a kind of revenge. Byrne – who can currently be … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Arts
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Irish Eye on Hollywood: Saoirse Takes a Turn in Little Women
By Tom Deignan, Columnist
November/ December 2018
It has been 150 years now since Louisa May Alcott wrote her beloved novel Little Women–and filmmakers can’t stop returning to this classic. Just as one updated version was being released this September, it was announced that Irish Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan would be teaming up again with director Greta Gerwig (they made the indie hit Lady Bird together) for yet another version … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: Saoirse Takes a Turn in Little Women
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
A Beautiful Success
By Penelope Dening, Contributor
June / July 2002
After 22 movies Jennifer Connelly is an overnight success. Penelope Dening talks to the winner of the Best Supporting actress academy Award. ℘℘℘ A blur of bodies block the corridor, voices muffled to a hum by carpets thick as fur. At the center a slight figure in black (spike-heeled boots, leather trousers, off-the shoulder lace) extricates herself and moves towards me. Like a … [Read more...] about A Beautiful Success