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Indeed, the production has been an affirmation of the family Huston, a confluence of circumstances that sums up two generations of experience. "This picture is very significant to me," says Huston, a Joyce aficionado who lived in Ireland for 25 years and still holds an Irish passport. "It's based on Joyce, it takes place in Ireland, it stars my daughter and is written by my son." The man who directed his father Walter in the 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (for which both won Academy Awards) and guided Anjelica to last year's supporting-actress Oscar...
Working five days a week from 10 to 6 on a tight, seven-week shooting schedule (the exteriors will be shot later in Ireland), Huston has little room for error. Although his physical condition limits his mobility, he still agonizes over the simplest things, laboring to get the effect just right. "I like it when the audience forgets there's a screen, forgets it's a story and just beholds," he says...
...Toner) and his private side (Kevin Walker) surmount the demands of the difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...
...flamboyant, energetic private Gar tries to push his other self away from a painful past and into a future of endless possibilities. With his sarcastic and biting wit, he continually pokes fun at the people of Ballybeg, Ireland...
...hour long debate was sponsored by the Irish Times newspaper and will be aired in Ireland, Australia, and Great Britain, a spokesmen for the newspaper said...