| O’Toole to play artist Kinkade in
next movie IRISHMAN Peter O’Toole is in final negotiations
to star in a new film called The Christmas Cottage, which is based on
a painting by American artist Thomas Kinkade.
Reports suggest that the film will be part biographical and will look
at the events that influenced Kinkade to become an artist.
O’Toole is in final negotiations to play painter Glen Weissler,
who is based on one of Kinkade’s mentors.
The film is due to go into production this month in Vancouver, Canada.
book shortlist
IRISH writer Sebastian Barry’s book A Long Long Way has been shortlisted
for this year’s International Impac Dublin Literary Award.
Eight novels are featured on the shortlist for the ?100,000 prize, including
books by Salman Rushdie, JM Coetzee, Julian Barnes and Cormac McCarthy.
The Impac which is the world’s largest literary prize for a single
work of fiction is chosen from nominations submitted by libraries around
the world.
A Long Long Way was also nominated for the Booker Prize in 2005 and is
the featured novel in the current Dublin: One City, One Book campaign.
Other books shortlisted include Arthur And George by Julian Barnes, Slow
Man by JM Coetzee and The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs.
ozzy in dublin
ROCKER Ozzy Osbourne has announced that he will play Dublin this summer.
The legendary singer will play Dublin’s Point Theatre on Tuesday
July 3.Tickets are priced from ?55.50 and go on sale on Thursday, April
12 at 9am.Osbourne will be supported at the gig by Black Label Society.
child poverty
CHILDREN’S charity Barnardo’s has criticised Ireland’s
political parties, claiming they have pushed children’s welfare
down the political agenda.
In a recent report, the organisation says one-in-10 Irish children still
live in consistent poverty and too little is being done to tackle the
problem.
Barnardo’s claim Ireland has the resources, but not the political
will to tackle the problem. |
