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Late last year, at the end of my parental leave, I finally caught up with
The Comey Rule, Showtime’s stolid adaptation of former FBI Director James Comey’s memoir about among other things being fired by Donald Trump. A cluster of TV stars play the civil servants elevated by the MAGA internet into almost mythological characters: Jeff Daniels as Comey, Holly Hunter as Sally Yates, Steven Pasquale and Oona Chaplin as the text-crossed lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. But the real draw is Brendan Gleeson playing Trump. The Irish actor gives a fantastic performance that dances between impersonation and interpretation: Physically, Gleeson has the lunatic bronzer, the grimace, the sagging tie. More crucially, he captures the former president’s pettiness and malice in a way that communicates how dangerous those qualities can be, in tandem and totally unchecked. Gleeson’s Trump seethes and crawls around the White House like a swamp creature in a Brioni suit. It’s one of the most
Not I and
Krapp’s Last Tape, were screened in New York City on September as part of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. The films are a part of the ambitious project to film all of Beckett’s 19 plays and is being produced by Michael Colgan of the Gate Theater and Alan Moloney. Eight of the plays have been filmed so far and the project has attracted an impressive body of talent from Ireland and beyond.
Directed by Neil Jordan, the film
Not I, a fifteen-minute monologue stars Julianne Moore who starred in Jordan’s film
The End of the Affair. Krapp’s Last Tape was directed by Atom Egoyan (
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After a historic 19-year tenure May 17 marked the final graduation ceremony for the Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., who is retiring as Fordham University’s president. He encouraged this year’s graduates to be engaged in society.
“I pray we become successful, but we should not become complacent,” said Father O’Hare. “You should maintain a healthy discontent about the way things are because you dream of how things could be.”
Ted Koppel and his wife, Grace Anne Dorney Koppel (a Fordham alumna) delivered the keynote address as they celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Koppel, who has hosted ABC’s Nightline since the program was introduced in 1980, advised Fordham’s 3,980 graduates to encourage tolerance and stand up for their beliefs.