Damien Wilson writes:
Don’t know if you saw this article yesterday. First thing I thought of when I saw it.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
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What you may need to know.
1. Al Pacino! Christopher Walken! And Alan Arkin? Say no more.
2. They should have called it ‘Auld Fellas.
3. Pacino and Walken were both in the infamous Gigli (2003), but they’ve never shared the screen before.
4. The trailer looks better than anticipated. We’re reminded of the Cassavetes/Falk flick Mikey And Nicky (1976).
5. Hey, Al’s been in a lot of toss over the years, but he can still bring it, as anyone who has seen You Don’t Know Jack (2010) will testify. He’s doing Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway this winter (in the role Jack Lemmon played in the movie) and has a Phil Spector biopic in the can. Hoo-haa! Take that, Bobby De Niro!
Release Date: January (U.S.)
In 1981, a 74 year-old Jimmy Stewart, guesting on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, read a poem he’d written about his dog, Beau
Unless you have a heart of flint, you will well up by the end.
No really, you will.
Remember ‘Sweet’ Cigarettes?
Sugar replicas of cigarettes, with red tips, marketed to children?
Good times.
Well, they had their own cigarette cards.
From The Irish Traditional Music Archive
In the 1960s the Dublin sweets firm of Liam Devlin & Sons issued at least two undated series of sweet cigarette cards. The second series was ‘Irish Theatre and Showband Stars’ (36 cards in all, issued in 1967) In spite of its title, the series also includes contemporary ballad singers and ballad groups, a stepdancer, a harper, a traditional cabaret group, a showband that showcased Irish traditional music, and a ceili band.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
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Is that the one about the punch drunk former heavyweight giving it one last shot?
Yesterday’s Roscommon People.
And last year’s Fine Gael election manifesto promise:
Oh yes.
Latest CSO figures show there was a 7 per cent increase in suicide last year – with 525 people taking their lives.
And may we take this opportunity to wish a Happy World Suicide Prevention Week to you and yours.
Roscommon People screengrab via @Nairamk
The magazine’s French website showed an image of its new front cover with a heavily pixellated image of a woman with dark hair, it claims is the Duchess, in a bikini apparently about to remove her top. The couple were staying in Provence at a chateau (above) owned by Lord Linley, the Queen’s nephew…The source stressed it could not confirm if the pictures were of Kate as they appeared to have been taken with a long lens and were pixellated.
Duchess of Cambridge ‘Saddened’ By Topless Photos Claim (Guardian)