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Bad luck 'O' the Irish: Apostrophe in name could get you thrown off flights in ID mix-up (IrishCentral)

5 November 2009 5:46 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

Bill O'Reilly, Rosie O'Donnell and Maureen O'Hara could soon be thrown off U.S. flights under tough new airline rules. The reason? The Transportation Security Administration will soon insist on matching passengers’ boarding passes to their IDs - including any apostrophes hyphen and initials. The problem there is that most computer systems don't recognize apostrophes which means it's Bad Luck O' The Irish for people with an O' in their name - like half the Irish population. Once the new rules are in place, Mary O'Connor won't be flying unless her boarding pass says Mary OConnor. But it won't be Mary's fault. The airline systems can't handle Irish O'Names so they run the last name as OConnor. Which is not the same as the name on Mary's passport or driving licence. Irish Central founder and publisher Niall O'Dowd found this out the hard way when he was trying to book a flight to Atlanta. »

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Miller Lands Irish Film Festival Honour

1 September 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Daniel Day-Lewis' writer/director wife Rebecca Miller is set to be honoured at Ireland's star-studded Kerry Film Festival.

Miller, who is also the daughter of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller, will be presented with the Maureen O'Hara award recognising women in film.

The award, named after one of Ireland's best known and best loved acting greats, was presented for the first time last year to Irish actress Brenda Fricker.

Miller's credits include 2005 drama The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring her husband Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle, and this year's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright Penn.

The nine-day event is scheduled to kick off on 31 October. »

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Miracle on 34th Street Makes Its Blu-ray Wish on October 6th

14 August 2009 7:09 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Just in time for the holiday season, Fox Home Entertainment is releasing both the classic 1947 and the updated 1994 editions of the hit Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street on Blu-ray this October 6th. Both films will be released separately on the same day, with a retail price of $34.99 Srp.

In the 1947 original, Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: It's bad enough that he is laboring under the delusion that he's the genuine Saint Nick. But when he begins advising customers to shop elsewhere for toys that they can't find at Macy's, he's gone too far! Amazingly, Mr. Macy (Harry Antrim) considers »

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The Tough Guy Romantic Comedy

23 July 2009 10:07 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

There's something a little strange about the poster for "The Ugly Truth," and the sight of the stubbly, gruff face of Gerard Butler, affecting a sly grin and brandishing a heart at groin-level. This is the guy who carried "300" on his back (and maybe his washboard stomach) and, through sheer badness of his assness, inspired as many teenage boy quotations as any movie since "Austin Powers." In the interim, he's starred in Guy Ritchie's crime caper "RocknRolla," and he'll next appear in "Gamer," a film about a super soldier who becomes part of a dystopic video game. But for the moment, here he is in a romantic comedy. King Leonidas probably would have stabbed this dude right through his heart-crotch.

Butler's a veteran of movie musicals ("The Phantom of the Opera") and romances ("P.S. I Love You") but he's at his best -- and certainly best known -- as a man of action, »

- Matt Singer

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The Black Swan Movie Review

14 May 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

"The Black Swan" starring Gene Tierney and Maureen O'Hara won an Oscar for best picture of 1942 and deservedly so, although I don't think it was one of the best "Oscar winning" pictures ever made which is just as well because this one lacks intensity and drama compared to other Oscar winners from that era that I can name, but I won't. Gener Tierney stars as Captain Morgan (don't they have a "rum" brand by that name?), a swashbuckling pirate who finds love and romance in the high seas (that being Maureen O'Hara). Both are exceptionally capable in their roles and help enhancing this film'... »

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Kiss Her She's Irish

17 March 2009 6:05 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Happy St Patrick's Day

From three of the most successful Irish actresses (not a lot of Irish actresses seem to make a massive silver screen mark) to hit Hollywood: fascinating Anjelica Huston, endearing Maureen O'Hara and the goddess Greer Garson.

Contemporary actresses of varying degrees of Irishness that must be kissed today: Kathy Bates, Fiona Shaw, Rose McGowan, Jennifer Connelly, Allyson Hannigan (Willow), Kristen Bell (Veronica), Heather Graham and Janeane Garofalo. Did I forget anyone? Hollywood likes Irish men much more. Too many to list!

To read previous posts on any of these actresses, click the labels below

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- NATHANIEL R

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On DVD: "Our Man in Havana," "The Singing Revolution"

3 February 2009 6:55 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By Michael Atkinson

Filmmaking is all about collaboration and fortuity, as much as we genuflect faithfully to the sacredness of the auteur. Take Carol Reed -- a career that spanned almost four decades, encompassing 33 features, and yet only a few are memorable (not, God knows, his late-career Oscar-winner "Oliver!"). Essentially, Reed finds his way onto the pantheon's higher shelves on the strength of only a handful of films, starting with the trio of startling, precise, infinitely rich features he made in the late '40s, one after the other -- "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948) and "The Third Man" (1949) -- and ending a little less auspiciously with "Our Man in Havana" (1959). The rogue factor here is that three out of the four were written by Graham Greene, whose particular ironic-tension story skills gave many a medium-boil filmmaker his best shot at sublimity. The first three -- certainly one of »

- Michael Atkinson

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Quiet Man Tales Makes World Premiere at The Chicago Theatre Downstairs in March

14 January 2009 6:33 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

The Quiet Man Tales, a riveting new play presented by Smock Alley Theater Co., in conjunction with Mavin Productions II and Pullinsi & D'Angelo Productions, will make its world premiere at The Chicago Theatre Downstairs, 175 N. State Street, previewing March 6 and opening Sunday, March 22 at 3:00 p.m. Susan Felder will direct. Adapted for the stage by Frank Mahon and Milissa Pacelli, The Quiet Man Tales is based on Green Rushes, the classic book of short stories by Maurice Walsh. Published in 1935, the book was the inspiration for the legendary 1952 Academy Award-winning film The Quiet Man, which was directed by John Ford and starred Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne. Set in the sweeping Irish countryside in the midst of the country's battle for freedom from England in 1921 and the years that follow, The Quiet Man Tales is a humorous and poignant story of the interconnected lives of the men and women »

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8 articles from 2009

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