Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another rep-company parlay. He is Newland Archer, the sensitive 1870s New York City lawyer, in Martin Scorsese's rapturously sedate The Age of Innocence. He is Irish hell-raiser Gerry Conlon, framed and imprisoned with his saintly dad (Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite) for an I.R.A. bombing, in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. They are an amazing pair, Newland and Gerry, two men in their own prisons -- one surrendering his passion to Old New York civility, the other maturing from Belfast bad boy to crusading...
...hotel as Newland Archer and wandered the city dressed in 1870 clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character is battered into making a confession, he stayed awake for three nights, during which director Sheridan arranged to have him mock- interrogated by actual policemen...
...onscreen demand heroes, villains and an intelligible plot line. Real life, on the other hand, tends to get messy -- the lines between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was excoriated in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case of the Guildford Four for 20 years, the film's reception has been...
...Sheridan, "In the Name of the Father"--In the shadow of Spielberg...
Many student workers and volunteers, like Sheridan, man phone lines, organizes speeches on college campuses ad put up posters, learning while on the job. Others, however, are going to school--campaign school, that...