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March 2010
What movie says ‘Ireland’ to you? Or St. Patty’s Day?
Miami University Hamilton has its Taste of Ireland event happening on Wednesday, March 17 (of course) and one of the activities there will be a showing of a movie that depicts Irish culture.
Last year the movie was John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish, about the legendary selkies - seals that can shed their skins to become human. This year it might be Evelyn, a Pierce Brosnan melodrama about a man’s fight against the Irish courts to be reunited with his children.
So what movie says Ireland most to you? One of the first movies that springs to my mind is John Ford’s The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, with Irish brogues running thick and fast.
So what movie would you watch to observe St. Patrick’s Day? What titles Irish-spring to mind?
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So where DO you go to party?
I recently wrote a couple of articles that had to do with the lack of places to go in Middletown/Hamilton.
One of these was a story about how musicians having to go out of town to get gigs. The other was a story about a new club opening in Middletown.
So that makes me want to ask you - if you believe that “there’s nothing to do around here,” as so many people seem to believe - where DO you go to party? What out of town bars/clubs/other establishments do you frequent?
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Kids meet a music-maker and ‘Peanuts’ fan
I spent the morning at Miami University Hamilton where I met composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who is being spotlighted at Saturday’s American Masters concert by the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra.
Zwilich was in the thick of a Q&A session with some fourth- through sixth graders from St. James of the Valley School, Queen of Peace School and the John Scott Academy. Before she came on, Paul Stanbery, the musical director of the orchestra, asked the kids, “How many of you have a question for Ellen?”
A handful of hands rises.
“How many of you want a snack?” he asked.
Almost everyone does an impression of the Statue of Liberty.
“How many of you are going to ask a good question to get that snack?” Stanbery asked?
The hands stay up.
Read more about the Q&A with Zwilich tonight on the JournalNews Web site. For now, here is my interview with Zwilich.
Fun coincidence: the “Peanuts” strip that Zwilich refers to was published on my 20th birthday, Oct. 13, 1990. And as a lifelong “Peanuts” fan, I was delighted so many of the kids seemed to know the characters. Long may they run - unless maybe Lucy is holding the football.
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All this green beer stuff …
- reminds me of another kind of green liquid. My favorite moment in the movie The Fugitive is when we see the river being dyed green for the St. Patrick’s day festivities in Chicago. One of the cops says, “If they can dye the river green today, why can’t they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?”
What’s your favorite sort of St. Patrick’s day revelry?
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Where do you go to see movies?
The closing of the Showcase Cinemas at the Cincinnati Mall (formerly Cincinnati Mills and the Forest Fair Mall has caused quite a stir among the readers of our Web sites. Such a stir makes me wonder:
Where DO you go to see movies?
I’m particularly interested in whether you go the local theaters near you or if you drive to one of the bigger chains. For instance, I’ve heard a lot of people say that they will pass up the Danbarry in Middletown for the Rave in West Chester or the Showcase Cinemas in Springdale or near the Dayton Mall.
What about the Kerasotes in Hamilton? Do Hamiltonians go there or do you drive elsewhere too?
Before I turn the floor over to you, I would like to address the notion that movie theaters are going to die. That always comes up when a theater closes, and I never buy it.
Why not? Because they said newspapers would go away when the radio came along. Then they said radio would go away when TV came along. They’re saying everything will go away now that the Internet is in full force. Guess what? Hasn’t happened, and I don’t think it’s going to. These media will CHANGE, no doubt, but they’re not going to go away completely. After all, how can you argue that movie theaters are going away when Avatar has made $700 million and counting?
So where do you go to movies? Do you go to the local theaters? And do you believe movie theaters are on their way out?
