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Such is the initial setup of The Boys and Girl from County Clare. John Joe (Bernard Hill), the reigning céilí champion who never left home, must face his younger brother Jimmy’s (Colm Meaney) up-and-coming band from Liverpool at a music competition in 1960s County Clare. Throw in some gentle subterfuge and a romance between the most talented members of the rival groups...
...Clare strives to be a touching story about changing times as portrayed through music in the Old Country, but it comes up disappointingly short. Initially, it is hard to work out what element is to blame, since the cast’s performance is superb...
...melee at the lipstick counter on Sale Day suggest that they too can be madly competitive? Once in a while, isn't the fairer sex horribly unfair to its own? Nichols doesn't think so. "Women's competitiveness with one another was always exaggerated, from the days of Clare Boothe Luce on," he says, referring to her 1936 play (and the 1939 movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese-and-wine sessions to discuss orgasms first...
...station WOR. The following year, she hooked up with Arlene Francis for the daily hour-long show, ?Home.? Arlene was already a TV celebrity as a panelist on ?What?s My Line.? But she had been on Broadway since 1936, when she appeared in the original production of Clare Boothe Luce?s ?The Women?; and in 1945 she starred briefly in the comedy ?The French Touch? - sets designed by George Jenkins...
...Clare Beams and Paige Bowers...