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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the new Victoria Beckham docuseries www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Patrick Freyne: I don’t want to see Victoria Beckham chatting over coffee. I want to see her in a rocket to space

There’s definitely a fascinating documentary to be made about the Beckham family. Maybe next time

www.irishtimes.com

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Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social · 6d

Very happy to be doing this live podcast recording next Friday (17th Oct) with @urchinette.bsky.social and Prof Paige Reynolds at @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin!

Will this be a MeetCute? Or a new love triangle? Will we get our Happy Ever After? Or just Happy For Now? 😜

moli.ie/events/happy...

Happy Ever After: Anna Carey & Sylvia Leatham | MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 8d

I also bought it and feel the same regret/shame.

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 8d

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 9d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 12d

Match me, Sidney! So so good.

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 14d

If you are richer than god and the biggest pop star in the world, all your grudges are punching down at this stage! Like, just dry your eyes with your money!

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 16d

I wrote about House of Guinness/Beamish/Buckfast

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Today I will discuss House of Beamish. I think I remember the plot from history class, but we were all quite drunk

Much like Downton Abbey, House of Guinness is best treated as a delightful hallucinatory cheese dream

www.irishtimes.com

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 17d

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 22d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24d

Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 24d

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Sep 18

I wrote about Stranded on Honeymoon Island which is a television program and possibly a state of mind www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Patrick Freyne: Davina McCall is firing a flare. On Stranded on Honeymoon Island, this means she’s ready to divorce

Stranded on Honeymoon Island isn’t a survival show so much as TV producers’ latest attempt to destroy the institution of marriage

www.irishtimes.com

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · Sep 16

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

An excerpt from an interview with the director of The Graduate, Mike Nichols.

"I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands of men", Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. "I said, 'You can't play it. You can never play a loser'. And Redford said, 'What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser'. And I said, 'OK, have you ever struck out with a girl'. And he said, 'What do you mean?' And he wasn't joking."

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Sep 12

There is a reference not just to this film but to the dress in this photo in the book I’m writing right now…

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · Sep 11

Tonight’s film: Veronica Lake is enchanting in I Married A Witch boxd.it/b2zMaz

A ★★★½ review of I Married a Witch (1942)

For the first half of this at least, we’re in peak Veronica Lake territory. She is breathtakingly sexy and mischievous as a vengeful witch who has taken on the form of, well, Veronica Lake, to wreak h...

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Sep 10

Seconding Kenny’s - I’ve got second hand stuff from them in the past though not sure they still do it.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Sep 7

This brilliant supernatural, romcom directed and cowritten by my brother David is debuting tonight at the Toronto Film Festival tiff.net/films/eternity

Eternity

Set in the afterlife, this stirring drama from director David Freyne (TIFF ’17’s The Cured) features Elizabeth Olsen (TIFF ’24’s The Assessment) and Miles Teller (Whiplash) ...

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Sep 6

I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Sep 5

Truly she is the people’s princess.

Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.hotpress.com/opinion/cmat...

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Mission accomplished, you absolute queen.

CMAT: "If Bertie Ahern goes for the presidency, I will actually make it my personal mission to make sure that he doesn’t win" | Hotpress

A year-and-a-half after the release of her Choice Prize-winning debut LP, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, CMAT returns with her unapologetically frank new ...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Aug 30

23 years ago when me and my friend Paul were devising silly musical schemes, Paul's flatmate Mick was in the next room organising Belong To & starting an LGBTQI+ youth movement. Mick Barron is a legend. I interviewed him about his new book on LGBTQI+ youth activism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

‘It was all about hurling... Being gay, ultimately, you were not masculine enough’

Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world

www.irishtimes.com

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ah I love this! Happy to be of service. 💖

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · Aug 29

I have a degree in art history and one of the things that blew my mind when I started it was realising that I didn’t know how to discuss a painting properly apart from describing the subject. Studying art (mostly 15th-19th century painting) totally changed how I experienced it.

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Dublin Maker @dublinmaker.bsky.social · Aug 28

We’re delighted to share that artist Ciara Kenny has created a stunning series of sketches celebrating Irish Traditional Crafts.

Her work will be on display at this year’s Dublin Maker Festival.

Find out more on our website: dublinmaker.ie/celebrating-...

#DublinMaker #MeetTheMaker

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