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1 month ago | 
irishstar.com | Scarlett O'Toole |George Simpson
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon met as teenagers, John assumed the leadership role in what would eventually become The Beatles. However, following the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967, Paul stepped into a leading role. In the Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back, it's evident that Paul's leadership style was charismatic and he seemed somewhat more assertive than John during the 1969 Let It Be recording sessions.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Scarlett O'Toole |George Simpson
2 hours agoBeat The Noise, What the Apple Noise Cancellation Story Gets RightHow do you tell a story about a noise cancellation feature? You don’t start with specs or features. You start with the person using it. With the feeling. With the need to quiet the world just enough to feel again.
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1 month ago | 
irishstar.com | Rudi Kinsella |George Simpson
Back in '59, John Wayne swaggered back onto the Western scene with Rio Bravo. Following his departure from frontier tales post-The Searchers, the Duke wasn’t exactly hitting it out of the park with his film choices. Teaming up with director Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo was a cinematic slapback at 1952's High Noon, seen as a metaphor for the Communist witch hunts in Tinseltown. Wayne branded High Noon "un-American".
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1 month ago | 
irishstar.com | Rudi Kinsella |George Simpson
Al Pacino has been gracing the big screen for nearly six decades and has had the opportunity to play some truly unforgettable characters. The Academy Award-winning actor recently attended a 50th-anniversary screening of the 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon, where he participated in a Q&A session at the American Cinematheque Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California.
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1 month ago | 
irishstar.com | Eleanor Simpson |Eleanor Tolbert |George Simpson
John Wayne and John Ford teamed up for numerous iconic Westerns, but it was the 1939 film Stagecoach that catapulted Duke to stardom. Set in 1880, the plot revolves around a group of strangers navigating perilous Apache territory. The film was so well-crafted that Orson Welles reportedly watched it over 40 times as he prepared to create what is often hailed as "the greatest movie of all time," Citizen Kane.
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2 months ago | 
irishstar.com | Natalie Hunter |George Simpson |Natalie Hunter
By the 1970s, John Wayne was on the final stretch of his tenure as a Hollywood legend. By 1973, at 65, the veteran actor had been soldiering on with just one lung for nearly a decade and was battling emphysema in it. During that year, he dropped two Western films, which may not be ranked among his finest but showcased the star's unwavering grit. One of these flicks was 'The Train Robbers', featuring Ann-Margret as a plucky widow banding together with three cowpokes to nab a cache of gold.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
irishstar.com | Rudi Kinsella |George Simpson |John O'Sullivan
John Wayne, the legendary actor known for his roles in over 170 films from the silent era through to the New Hollywood of the 1970s, was lined up for another Western following his last film, The Shootist, in 1976. The movie, a comedy called The Frisco Kid, featured Gene Wilder as a Polish rabbi on his way to San Francisco. Wayne was set to play Tommy Lillard, a bank robber who befriends the protagonist.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
irishstar.com | George Simpson |Emily Hodgkin
Fifty years back, Francis Ford Coppola was in the thick of creating his screen rendition of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, facing serious resistance from Paramount Pictures who were set against casting Marlon Brando. Brando, 47 at the time, was a faded star with a recent box office failure and a rep for being a handful. Nonetheless, Coppola stood firm on having Brando aboard, believing him to be amongst the greatest actors ever.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
irishstar.com | Stefan Kyriazis |George Simpson
The long-standing feud between Michael Caine and Alfred Hitchcock was still a topic of discussion years later. The tension between them was palpable, particularly during their weekly visits to a renowned Hollywood restaurant, where Hitchcock would deliberately ignore Caine. The rift began over one of Hitchcock's films, which received an X rating in the UK and sparked moral outrage from Caine.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
irishstar.com | George Simpson |Emily Hodgkin
It's been two years since Downton Abbey: A New Era graced the cinemas, and the third instalment of the TV hit is slated for a big screen release in 2025. The absence of the late Dame Maggie Smith, who played Lady Violet and passed away last September, will undoubtedly leave a void in Downton Abbey 3. Fans are curious about how the series will proceed without the Dowager's sharp wit, and it seems the third film will serve as a grand farewell.
