Word: neill
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...neill's boutique winery outside Queenstown, New Zealand, his beloved pinot noir grapes are handpicked, gently pressed and aged in barrels for 10 months. The resulting wine's flavor "is always just beyond your grasp," Neill once said. "If you do manage to get hold of it, it's only for a fleeting moment." What's true of the wine is true of the actor. In the 25 years since My Brilliant Career launched him and co-star Judy Davis onto the world stage, Neill has suggested many things to movie-goers: from smooth leading man (Reilly: Ace of Spies...
...will reprise his wizardry in the just-wrapped sequel to the Merlin miniseries, be stalked as the husband of Susan Sarandon in the Melbourne-shot Irresistible, and speak in iambic pentameter (and play air guitar) as a disillusioned English politician in Yes. The piquant mix is typically Sam Neill. But as the closeted gay Sydney crime lord in the new Australian film Little Fish, his finish is almost unrecognizable. There's nothing remotely respectable about Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson, a character so crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving's ex-AFL footballer junky (in turn...
...British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share Irish ancestry but rarely see eye to eye: Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "As you know, the President and I have had our differences," said O'Neill. "But we have no differences on the need to end the violence in Northern Ireland." The package sailed through the House without a glitch, and is expected to win approval in the Senate, where its sponsors...
Television commercials have lambasted the Congressman as a Washington insider not to be trusted, a turncoat conservative who voted for "Tip O'Neill's budget," the surrender of the Panama Canal and a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. The most damaging blow, however, may be Funderburk's recent contention that Broyhill wants to set up two nuclear-waste sites in the state. Actually, Broyhill introduced legislation to establish a waste site in the West; the bill was later amended in the Senate to set up a second site, not necessarily in North Carolina...
Democratic prospects are brighter in the Northeast, where Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts hope to enhance their national prospects with big re-election wins. Yet their once secure colleague, William O'Neill of Connecticut, has been losing ground to charismatic Republican State Legislator Julie Belaga; the latest polls show O'Neill clinging to a narrow lead...