Liam Alex Heffron

6 days ago | westernpeople.ie | Liam Alex Heffron

“We have not much time left!” The Greek MEP was on her feet, waving her arms with the kind of fervour usually reserved for Eurovision voting scandals. She let loose a rapid-fire burst of Greek that, through the miracle of Brussels translation, emerged in my headphones as a breathless monotone. "Or our far-right friends will capitalise on these communities as they are doing now, thank you, chairperson.” And with that, like a laptop on a dodgy battery, she powered down and sat abruptly.

1 week ago | hollywoodandheffron.substack.com | Liam Alex Heffron

Somewhere on my first travels to the United States during Obama’s inaugural election campaign, I must have slipped into a parallel Batman universe - a weird combination of the original campy and bumbling Adam West version which aired on TV in the Sixties ("Quick, Robin - to the Batmobile!”) and the later gritty, brooding films of Christopher Nolan, featuring the darkly iconic Joker of Heath Ledger pitted against the sexy-hoarse Dark Knight of Christian Bale.

1 week ago | westernpeople.ie | Liam Alex Heffron

Somewhere on my first travels to the United States during Obama’s inaugural election campaign, I must have slipped into a parallel universe - a weird combination of the original campy and bumbling Adam West version which aired on TV in the Sixties ("Quick, Robin - to the Batmobile!”) and the later gritty, brooding films of Christopher Nolan, featuring the darkly iconic Joker of Heath Ledger pitted against the sexy-hoarse Dark Knight of Christian Bale.

2 weeks ago | westernpeople.ie | Liam Alex Heffron

Top of the morning to y’all! It’s me, the United States Healthcare System, and I thought I’d hijack Liam’s column to tell a story to you Irish, with your much maligned universal healthcare of public hospitals, GPs and medical cards. It’s about Crystal Carson: brilliant actress, revered acting coach, and one of the most determined fighters I’ve ever had the pleasure of exhausting.

2 weeks ago | hollywoodandheffron.substack.com | Liam Alex Heffron

This story is about Crystal Carson: brilliant actress, revered acting coach, and one of the most determined fighters I’ve ever had the pleasure of exhausting. Crystal is a native of Nebraska, best known for her role on General Hospital from 1991 to 1993, earning her the title of ‘Best New Female’ by Soap Opera Digest and a feature on their cover as one of ‘Television's Most Beautiful Women’. Her acting career spans TV shows such as Dallas, Cheers, Ellen, JAG and Thirtysomething.