The Dublin-born actor/producer has now bought the rights of "Cuckoo Blue" and plans to turn it into a blockbuster movie.... MORE
POWERSSOUND
by BOB POWERS
NEW ORLEANS - As shots whirl through the air over a street in the city of Sarajevo, the neck of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand bursts open and blood flows into the seat of the car in which he is riding. Four years later, World War I comes to an end, as do the lives of 21 million citizens of Australia, the United States, France, England, Germany, Austria, Serbia, etc. The course of the relatively short history of mankind was changed and a new apocalyptic concept of war was introduced to the world. New machines brought warfare a new kind of weaponry, biological and chemical,which can eliminate people more efficiently and quickly. The ability to eradicate thousands of people in a matter of hours is achieved...MORE
DUBLIN, IRELAND - Detective Sergeant Tony Guerin wrote his first novel in 1989 and his second one in 1992, two years before his retirement. Three years ago, at the opening of his first play, "Cuckoo Blue", staged by the Lartigue Theatre Group in Saint John's Theatre Listowel, I was impressed. So was the man in the seat beside me. His name was Patrick Bergin.
The Dublin-born actor/producer has now bought the rights of "Cuckoo Blue" and plans to turn it into a blockbuster movie.... MORE
POWERSSOUND
by BOB POWERS
MARIETTA, OH, USA - Ruby Braff’s new CD, “I Hear Music” (Arbors Records) will leave more than music in the listeners’ ears. The venerable cornet genius, now into his 70s, shows no decline in his ability to play music as sweet as fresh corn just plucked out of the family garden. The outing shows Braff in a calm and deliberate mode, lovingly playing his cornet through a program of seven carefully selected tunes.
Critics have dubbed Braff the most knowledgeable jazz dramatist of American song. When the disc hits the turntable, there’s no doubt when it’s Braff running the show...MORE
MY GLASS HOUSE:
by ROD AMIS
NEW ORLEANS - 5 May, 2002: "The Story Du Jour." That's the phrase used in these pages for the headline that every organ in the Mouthpiece Media obsesses on for weeks. The pile-on, drumbeat affect has the result of nearly drowning out all other news stories --no matter how important. If you've lived in America (or watched CNN television) during the past few years, you've seen the trend: OJ, Monica, Anthrax, Catholic Priests... MORE
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