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...howled the blues with Chapman and hollered in falsetto with the Bee Gees. We found out that Kathy Ireland and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, went to Sean's high school, and we found out that Amanda thinks Cary Elwes is the hottest guy ever. Tarek and I rhapsodized about the pre-Guns `n' Roses Stephanie Seymour. We discussed what we find attractive in other people--besides nice eyes...
...BOTTOM LINE: Myth and reality blend unsentimentally in a lovely, lively fairy tale about modern Ireland...
...wayward, unpredictable. For this, credit the blarney-proof script of Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) and the wintry imagery and emotional firmness of the direction by Mike Newell (Enchanted April). There are no leprechauns sitting on their shoulders. Their fantasy is firmly grounded in the austere reality of modern Ireland, and that reality adds poignance to the mythic yearnings of the characters...
TELEVISION Conan O'Brien brings a fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track...
Mahoney's main interest was discovering how life might be changing for Irish women, who have been all but invisible in what may be Europe's most repressively patriarchal society. She found some hopeful omens in interviews with three of Ireland's leading feminists: the country's first woman President, Mary Robinson; poet Eavan Boland; and abortion-rights activist Ruth Riddick, who inspired the book's enigmatic title. (One conservative Catholic lady is quoted as saying of Riddick and her ilk: "Oh, those women! Those women encourage whoredom in Kimmage" -- a lower-class Dublin neighborhood...