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...born on Good Friday--the 13th--and whose fondest artistic hope was to "fail better," might have smiled at the glory of it all. Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio, TV or film...
Beckett was born near Dublin, into a comfortable Irish Protestant family. At Trinity College, Dublin, Sam was first in his class. He studied in Paris and discovered as strong a love for the city as he had a hatred for the small-mindedness of old Eire. Sam went home thereafter only to see his family, especially his mother May, whose lingering death from Parkinson's disease touched him as he stared into her pained eyes. "These are the first eyes I think I truly see," he wrote to a friend, in a letter cited in Knowlson's biography...
...said the new restaurant is named for a street in Dublin that is "synonymous with Harvard Square...
DIED. VERONICA GUERIN, 36, investigative reporter for Ireland's Sunday Independent; after being shot while sitting in her car; in Clondalkin, Ireland. Guerin's fearless coverage of Dublin's crime underworld won her an International Press Freedom Award last year from the Committee to Protect Journalists...
Meanwhile, back at the Columbia festival, the rain has finally stopped. The band takes the stage to a massive roar from the crowd, a Beatles in Liverpool, U2 in Dublin, Nirvana in Seattle hometown roar. With abandon, joy and a little bit of out-of-practice sloppiness, they tear through some old songs--Hannah Jane, Let Her Cry and Time--as well as a couple of the new numbers, Sad Caper and Be the One. Rucker screams his way through that last one, pulling and pawing at his shirt as if he's about to come...