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...more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery ignites the songs. U2 squires him into 1987; he gives them heft, antecedents and even a little history lesson...
...some 28 hours later in what he thought was Los Angeles. "I've just flown from New York," he called out as he hopped from the plane. "By the way, where am I?" The Irish brogues of the puzzled mechanics swarming around the airplane informed him he was in Dublin, 6,000 miles off course. "I got up in the clouds and flew the wrong way," explained Corrigan, blaming a stuck compass. The folk hero, who now lives in Santa Ana, Calif., gave up his pilot's license 15 years ago. This time, to be sure he would make...
Most of the fare in London's tabloids is designed to titillate and tickle. Officials in Dublin, however, were not amused by one story appearing last week in the Sunday People, a racy Fleet Street rag. The paper charged that for more than four years the passport officer at the Irish embassy in London had sold false Irish passports to foreigners. The price: as much as $24,000 apiece. The story further alleged, although it provided no evidence, that the official, Kevin McDonald, 37, may have sold some of the bogus documents to "Libyans, Iranians, Lebanese and others" from states...
...junior from just outside Dublin, Ireland, earned that honor by placing third in the 35-Ib. weight throw in the NCAA Indoor Championships last weekend in Oklahoma City...
...youth-oriented enough." Because of the fragile state of Huston's health, insurance companies would underwrite the film only on the condition that his friend Director Karel Reisz stand by. The all-Irish cast -- including Donal McCann (as Gabriel), Donal Donnelly and Dan O'Herlihy -- was drawn largely from Dublin's famed Abbey and Gate theaters, but it had no star power in Hollywood's terms. All studios, major, minor and independent, turned the film down, despite the low, $5.5 million cost...