The scenery is the best thing about it. Lily James is far too pretty and self-assured to play the shy young Mrs de Winter, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers looks like an aristocratic guest, not a housekeeper. Judith Anderson in the 1940 version was much better.
When I got wind of the changes, I lost all interest in seeing it. Any modern filmmaker would struggle with what to do with Detta Walker, so in that sense excising her (and Eddie) from the movie entirely made a certain amount of sense, but also ripped the heart out of the plot (no Oy either). I dunno how she would have worked in any sequels given that Roland’s latest incarnation was also African-American.
Credited with unifying Ireland and ruling over the roughly 150 other kings. The Annals of Ulster even called him " High King of the Gaels of Ireland and the Norse foreigners and the Britons, Augustus of all north-western Europe".
The Wearing of the Grin - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note)
Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace
U2
Surprised at 7. While Irish Bagpipes exist I always associate them with Scotland, I and while Amazing Grace is a traditional Bagpipe song I don’t associate that with Ireland either, while John Newton was converted to Christianity while on board a ship while it was off the coast of Donegal he was an Englishman.
The Wearing of the Grin - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note)
Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace
U2
The Troubles
Leprechauns
The Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem
Maggie O’Farrell, memoirist and novelist (she co-adapted her Hamnet with Chloe Zhao for the current film)
Re. Amazing Grace, it’s a staple for the pipes at the St Patrick’s Day parades in spite of its non-Irish origins, and last year I heard the NYPD pipe band (in green kilts) play it at a retired officer’s funeral
Last Queen and Empress of Iran, she’s 87 and lives in Washington DC and Paris
Just wondering @Prof.Pepperwinkle whether the title of this category should be Famous Persians and Iranians? Confusingly, the Wikipedia article on Omar Khayyam says that he’s Persian, but lists his birthplace as Iran.