First Published in the Irish Times, Saturday, February 28, 2009
EVERY FAMILY HAS its secrets, says Dirk Wittenborn. Every family, he says, “has its bogeyman”. So, in a way, the Wittenborns of New Haven weren’t really that unusual. Not really. But even Wittenborn himself doesn’t look convinced by that idea. He may just have written a [...]
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Unearthing Skeletons: Dirk Wittenborn
Posted in Interviews, New Yorkers, Novelists, tagged Dirk Wittenborn, Pharmakon on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
Posted in Actors, Cinema, Film, Interviews on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, Saturday, February 7, 2009
HE DOESN’T SAY who the actress was; he’s too discreet to name names. But Gabriel Byrne does a mean imitation of her Hollywood twang, and an even meaner imitation of her horror-struck visage. He was on a film set, “quite a while ago now”; back, perhaps, when [...]