A screenwriter needs to research Dublin's violent criminals, but falls prey to gangster chic. How deep is too deep for his research? Ireland's Hundred Thousand Welcomes continues to draw immigrants to its faltering Celtic Tiger economy. For those hundreds of thousands of Poles - Catholic, hard-working, white and like the Irish, survivors of an overbearing neighbour - Ireland works. But the Tiger devours too. Barely a week in Ireland. 20-year-old Tadeusz Klos lies in a coma on a rainswept Dublin street. He will not survive. This murder is a tipping point. Gang violence has made Dublin's...
A screenwriter needs to research Dublin's violent criminals, but falls prey to gangster chic. How deep is too deep for his research? Ireland's Hundred...
The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has never been fully explored or explained--until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply into the lives of these two iconic stars and their turbulent lifelong relationship.
It began in Hollywood's golden age when Ava was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and numerous...
The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has never been fully explored or explained--until now. Frank & Ava delves deeply into the...