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Teeny-boppers love him. Journalist Marie Brenner describes him as "an utterly charming Irishman who could make you believe just about anything in less than 30 minutes." Composer Elmer Bernstein says: "he possesses a grandeur of vision that is quite staggering." His daughter Teresa, 15, thinks he is "just like a good friend." At first meeting, Tom Laughlin's glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice...
...newness of their wealth or the insecurity of their social position. They are all amazingly, boringly secure in a world in which they have no historical place. No Irish, as has often been pointed out during the past few weeks, lived on Beacon Hill in the 1920's. Any Irishman who would dare to move there, even in a piece of fiction, must have some distinct goal in mind, some all-encompassing ambition that would overcome the unspoken but still strict social rules of the time, and of our time...
...Queen of England is miffed at this movie. Her Majesty appears in a pivotal supporting role, opening Parliament, while an Irishman named Hennessy (Rod Steiger) is on the premises, about to blow the whole place skyward. The Queen's appearance is constructed entirely out of newsreel footage of the actual event, which the cagey film makers have intercut with their elaborate fictions. This has been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing...
...motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...
...affect Anglo-Irish history than any other 19th century female (Queen Victoria excepted) was born Katharine Wood, the daughter of an Anglican vicar. "Look lovely and keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near...