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Dear Me, First off, hi! I’m you, if a little thicker round the middle, and a little, well, a lot less hair! I thought I’d impart some life lessons to you, to help you on your way through this crazy, confusing, defining moment of your…

While going through my grandparents’ attic recently looking for money, I unearthed a box of scripts for a serialised radio drama written in the 1940’s by my grand-uncle Myles Mac Annaigh as part of a forgotten propaganda campaign for his…

No account of American film history of the 40s and 50s would be complete without a mention of Chuck Barrett, so shut up. A hard-drinking, hard-living, skirt-chasing Irishman, Chuck’s the man they mean when they say “They don’t make ‘em like…

Peyton Bradley leans back in his seat, reflecting on my question. His dressed-down look of t-shirt, jeans and converse combo; rolled cigarette resting behind one ear; uncombed shaggy mop of hair and a three-day growth of stubble on his face…

I know what you’re thinking: “not another unproduced hack preying on the goodwill of people’s dreams selling his snake-oil to the masses in the form of a how-to guide.” And if this was anyone else, you’d be right. But I AM a produced…