George Bernard Shaw Adapted screenplay, 1939 George Bernard Shaw on a visit in Los Angeles answering questions from the American journalists around him. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Yes, yes, George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan are the only people to have won both an Oscar and Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw, also the first … Read more
A few months ago, Chris Walley devoured the autobiography of one of theatre’s original young offenders, Anthony Hopkins. While the slapstick physical humour with which Walley is associated is a long way from Oscar-winning Hopkins parts such as Hannibal Lecter, the Cork-born star was fascinated to read the memoirs of a fellow Celt who had … Read more
When Domhnall Gleeson was 14 he saved up for a school trip to Egypt to see the pyramids of Giza. He went with a group of classmates from Malahide Community School, and it’s not that the moment was wasted on him, but he says getting to see the pyramids again with “an adult brain”, for … Read more