#Donal Donnelly

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Playbill for the 1987 production of "Sherlock's Last Case" by Charles Morowitz at the Nederlander Theatre featuring Frank Langella as Sherlock Holmes and Donal Donnelly as John Watson

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THE GODFATHER PART III 1990

When they come... they come at what you love.

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The Knack ...and How To Get It (1965)

The Knack ...and How To Get It by #RichardLester starring #RitaTushingham and #MichaelCrawford, "a charming, funny and beautifully shot bit of cheekiness"

RICHARD LESTER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB United Kingdom, 1965. Woodfall Film Productions. Screenplay by Charles Wood, based on the play by Ann Jellicoe. Cinematography by David Watkin. Produced by Oscar Lewenstein. Music by John Barry. Production Design by Assheton Gorton. Costume Design by Jocelyn Rickards. Film Editing by Antony Gibbs. A number of British Invasion movies remain popular today…

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Pinocchio

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is a 262 page Children’s Classic, but I read it as a roughly 6 hour audiobook via Nextory which is narrated by Donal Donnelly.

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. But, even with the help of Jiminy, a cricket who the fairy assigns to be Pinocchio's conscience, the marionette goes astray. He joins a puppet show instead of going to school, he lies instead of telling the truth, and he travels to Pleasure Island instead of going straight home. Yet, when Pinocchio discovers that a whale has swallowed Geppetto, the puppet single-mindedly journeys into the ocean and selflessly risks his life to save his father, thereby displaying that he deserves to be a real boy.

I rate this book 2/5 stars.

I dislike this book so much. I dislike the character of Pinocchio and his story. The puppet is dumb and naïve and not learning from his mistakes, or that he should listen to his conscious and stand his ground at times.

What I do like is the narration by Donal Donnelly and I will check out more of his works. However and I don’t know who is responsible in this process, but I think there was a missed opportunity. Several times within the story the author is talking to the audience and breaking the 4th wall, but in the audiobook they still say ‘Reader’ instead of ‘Listener’ and it would’ve been such an easy swap and would’ve contributed so much to the engagement with the audience.

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David Bowie as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, c. 1980 Photographer: Jim Britt

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The Elephant Man (1980)

with Donal Donnelly

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'From Sherlock’s Moriarty to His Dark Materials’ Colonel John Parry; Hamlet to the one-man adaptation of Vanya, Andrew Scott has been a longtime beloved actor of the stage and screen. And now the Dubliner will be taking on another iconic role as he steps into the shoes of Tom Ripley for the upcoming limited series, Ripley. The series, which is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling novels, is set in 1960s New York — and follows Tom Ripley, a grifter who is hired by a wealthy man to go to Italy and try to talk his vagabond son into coming home.

But as Ripley takes the job, he falls headfirst into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

The cast includes Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner, Maurizio Lombardi, Margherita Buy, John Malkovich, Kenneth Lonergan and Ann Cusack.

All eight episodes — which were directed and written by Steven Zaillian — will land on the streaming service on April 4.

The Dubliner told Empire about taking on the role — and the importance of putting “your own stamp” on the character.

He said, “you have to be respectful, but not too reverent, because otherwise there’s no point in doing this.

“You’ve got to put your own stamp on it. Some people will like this version, and some people will like other versions, and that’s okay. What you have to do is understand why this character remains so fascinating for people.”

The Dubliner made his debut on the big screen when he was 17 years old, when he starred in 1995’s Korea opposite Donal Donnelly.

In 1998, he played Edumnd Tyrone in Karel Reisz’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Gate Theatre — and was nominated for Best Actor In A Supporting Role at the Irish Times Theatre Award for his role in the show.

Scott had roles in Saving Private Ryan, Nora and the adaptation of Henry James’ The American — and in 2000, he made his stage debut in London with Dublin Carol.

He also appeared in Longitude opposite Michael Gambon, the miniseries Band of Brothers and Dead Bodies.

In 2005, he won his first Olivier Award for his role in the stage show A Girl in a Car with a Man — and made his debut on Broadway the next year, opposite Bill Nighy and Julianne Moore in The Vertical Hour.

Scott starred in the one-man show Sea Wall in 2008 and the next year — and on the screen, he had roles in Little While Lie, Foyle’s War and Lennon Naked, which saw him play Paul McCartney.

And in 2010, he took on the role of Moriarty in the BBC One series Sherlock, which also starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

Scott was nominated for a number of awards for his portrayal of the super sleuth’s nemesis, winning the Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2012 BAFTAS and Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Television at the 2013 IFTAS.

And in 2013, the actor opened up about the “extraordinary” reaction to the series.

He told The Independent, “Sherlock has changed all our careers, and I’m really pleased about that. It gives you the benefit of the doubt because executives like to see recognisable faces.

“It was overwhelming to be on a TV show that is quite so popular. That took me totally by surprise. People had an instant affection for it from the first episode. The reaction was extraordinary.”

He followed that up with a number of roles on the big and small screen over the next few years, including The Scapegoat, The Stag, The Town and Dates.

In 2014, Scott played Gethin Roberts in the film Pride, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2015 IFTAS and won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards.

The same year, he starred in Locke and Jimmy’s Hall. In 2015, he had a role in the 007 film Spectre — and the next year, he had roles in Alice Through The Looking Glass, Denial, This Beautiful Fantastic and Handsome Devil.

In 2017, he played Hamlet on the stage — and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The stage show was filmed and broadcast the following year.

Scott starred opposite Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Florence Pugh in 2018’s King Lear — and that summer, it was announced he would be joining the cast of Fleabag.

He captured hearts around the world for his portrayal of The Priest, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.

During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers earlier this year, he opened up about being cast in the show — and stepping away from some of the more villainous roles.

He said, “when I was in my 20s, I had a little baby face and I felt like I had this kind of darkness inside me. And I was like ,‘why can’t I get a part as a villain?’

“And then that happened — and then there were loads of villains happening, and I was like, ‘why can’t people see the real me?’

“Phoebe and I had done a play together in London that nobody saw, and she came a knocking — and that’s where the Priest came from.”

The same year, he played Lieutenant Leslie in 1917 and had roles in Black Mirror — which he got an IFTA and Emmy nomination for — and Modern Love.

Scott also took on the role of Colonel John Parry in the BBC’S His Dark Materials, an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy of the same name. The series ran from 2019 until 2022, and Scott was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Drama) at the 2021 IFTAS.

On the stage, the actor played Garry Essendine in the revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter — and won the Olivier Award for Best Actor. The following year, he played Patrick in The Three Kings.

In 2021, he played Lord Merlin in the three-part adaptation of The Pursuit of Love and Terje Rødlarsen in the film Oslo. The next year, Scott played Lord Rollo in the Lena Dunham-directed comedy Catherine Called Birdy.

Last year, he starred in an adaptation of Vanya which saw him play all of the characters in the show.

He also starred opposite Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers, which saw him nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes.'

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James Joyce, "Ulysses." Read in its entirety by Donal Donnelly & Miriam Healy-Louie. Unabridged (27 hours) [MP3].

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John Huston's final film is a surprisingly warm adaptation of James Joyce's short story about a Twelfth Night Christmas party that shows the cracks in a marriage, opening up questions about love, identity, and how well we can truly know one another.

Starring Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly, Séan McClory, and Colm Meaney. Directed by John Huston and written by Tony Huston.

Episode 125 - The Dead

https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-125-the-dead-1987

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Week 18 Blog

An Irish Country Village

Patrick Taylor

Pages read: 190-230

Word Count: 315

Summary

Barry and Fingal give Kinky her present after dinner. She chats with Barry a bit, this consequently disponibilize the readers to know important information about Kinky, she lost her husband a few years ago. Then Barry discusses some info about Bertie Bishop with Kinky and gets her to help with any gossip that she might hear later. Thus the horse racing that was probably foreshadowed by Donal Donnelly’s interaction at the beginning of the book. A break for both of the doctors, and time for some trickery on the posh newcomer in Bucklebo. There isn’t much to say than what was said before. Later, Barry gets Patricia on a picnic date, just a bit of romance to change the pace a bit.

Critical Analysis

Since those past pages are more of “filler chapters,” there isn’t much to apply on the Critical Analysis. The built up for the world besides what happens in the surgery is a good detail, it opens your view and imagination of the layout that one can create in their mind. It is also important to see the professional side of some characters and their personal side, so you can compare and contrast those, as well as with other characters.

Personal Response

The horse race was quite a filler for the book, there isn’t much involvement from the characters to be considered important. Kinky’s interaction with Barry is so sweet, one of the most important connections that Barry has. I’m still interested in how the posh guy will turn out throughout the book, although he seems pretty dispensable. Barry and Patricia’s picnic is a good dose of romance, well put to break the pace of the book. Patricia is quite important for this side plot with Barry, I want to see how their relationship will turn out in the end. I will be waiting for what will be done with the pub on the following pages.

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The Knack ... and How to Get It (Richard Lester, 1965)

Cast: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly. Screenplay: Richard Lester, based on a play by Ann Jellicoe. Cinematography: David Watkin. Art direction: Assheton Gorton. Film editing: Antony Gibbs. Music: John Barry. 

When I saw The Knack when it was first released, I was about the age of its principal characters, and I wondered why they were having so much more fun than I was. The obvious answer is that my life was not being directed by Richard Lester. But today, what seemed like a giddy delight of a movie, which so wowed the jury at Cannes that they gave it the Palme d’Or, feels a little tiresome and sad. It climaxes, after all, with Rita Tushingham's character crying rape. And even though her cries, which are sometimes more like chirps, are played for laughs, we have learned to treat rape as no laughing matter, so a sourness has infected the movie that can't be dismissed as misapplied “wokeness.” There are still things to like about The Knack: It does have a certain naïve charm and a great deal of energy, and the chorus of stuffy middle-class Brits commenting on the antics of the young is often funny. But the film is as dated as a farce about the flappers and flaming youth of the 1920s would have been to the “mods and rockers” of the mid-'60s. 

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Various promotional pictures from missing episodes of Out of the Unknown (BBC, 1965 - 1971). From top:

A. The Prophet (2.13, 1967), featuring robot costumes later recycled for Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (6.2, BBC, 1968)

B. James Maxwell and Ed Begley in The Fastest Draw (2.9, 1966)

C. Donal Donnelly in Get Off My Cloud (3.13, 1969), which featured both the TARDIS and a number of dalek props

D. Ian Ogilvy and Edwin Richfield face off in Liar! (3.2, 1969); some short clips of the episode survive, and some footage (a robot head being assembled) was later incorporated into the opening credits of Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, 2000 - 2006)

E-G. On-set pictures from The Chopper (4.9, 1971), the near legendary Nigel Kneale play which starred Patrick Troughton as the owner of a haunted motorcycle

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available to rent from 15th December 2020 - 21st January 2021

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Peter Pan Review

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie is a 176 page Children’s Classic. I listened to the audiobook via Nextory which is narrated by Donal Donnelly.

Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook.

I rate this book 4.5/5 stars.

This was a really fun read. I didn’t have the highest hopes of the book and the last time I’ve seen the Disney movie was when I was young, maybe 20 years ago... The writing was really engaging and the voice acting was phenomenal. I think Donal Donnelly is one of the better ones I’ve listened to. Besides the racism that might be a product of it‘s time, and Peter Pan being a literal murderer, I can’t find much fault with it.

Do you have any questions? Or maybe some recommendations? Send me an ask here on Tumblr or tweet me.  If you wish to support me, you can buy me a coffee! Or even buy my debut fantasy novel, The Mending Road.

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