Word: mcgann
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...Bill Clinton, Trent Lott and, currently, FOX News—along the way showing he has no philosophical core. And even though tabloids alleged in 1996 that Morris sucked a high-priced call girl’s toes, he nonetheless collaborated with his wife, lawyer and former lobbyist Eileen McGann, on this book. As expected, Morris and McGann deliver another know-no-bounds personal attack on Hillary Clinton’s credentials for office and worth as a person. (Their prior volume, “Rewriting History,” a rebuttal to the former First Lady?...
...play John Lennon in Imagine: The Story of John and Yoko, a three-hour NBC-TV movie. Then it turned out that his real name was Mark Chapman, the same as that of the late singer's assassin, and out went Chapman. Now new auditions have turned up Mark McGann, 24, who portrayed the Beatle in the 1981 Liverpool production of the stage musical Lennon. "I wept when I got the role," says McGann. "I grew up in Liverpool just a few miles from where he was born. It's almost spiritual the way John Lennon has become intertwined...
...That McGann did - not just flipping the action to New Zealand's South Island, whose dark, claustrophobic peaks he thought best reflected the story's mood, but ending the film where the book begins: uncovering the body of a murdered schoolgirl. Instead, the film is concerned with a different kind of discovery: what happens when a man returns home after 17 years abroad to find an old girlfriend (Jodie Rimmer) whose wildly imaginative daughter might just be his. In this sense, McGann remains true to the book: In My Father's Den is about the sexual charge that can dance...
...McGann toys just as nimbly with the novelist's narrative. "Brad made it his story," acknowledges Gee. Even still, "the bones of my story keep breaking through." These can still be traced through the melodramatic subplot of Paul's devout, disapproving brother (Colin Moy) and his repressed wife (Miranda Otto). But they find a fuller expression in the expanded use of the secret study of the film's title. It's this room, tucked behind the poison shed in an old orchard, where Celia and Paul can retreat into the world of books. But it's also where the sins...
...found in McGann a perfect celluloid soul mate to explore these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly...