Aidan Quinn News

TWO films with big Sligo connections are making headlines in Irish and international movie circles at present.

Ripping a page from a Hollywood tour promoter's script, local economic boosters have rolled out their own maps to the stars.

Ripping a page out of a Hollywood tour promoter's script, local economic boosters have rolled out their own maps to the stars.

Jesus wears a seat belt.

He's cruising down the street of a leafy suburb north of New York City in the car of an Episcopal priest who'd otherwise be talking to himself. But no, this driver shares his gripes about modern life with the passenger beside him - a kindly, white, berobed Jesus with the flowing locks of a Renaissance painting and a beatific smile. And a sly sense of humor. Jesus listens patiently, and responds with irony, to the woes of this good but troubled man, Daniel Webster. (Yes, descended from those Websters.) Daniel's bored upper-class wife has a taste for noontime martinis. His medical-student eldest has come out as gay. His comics-obsessed daughter is dealing drugs for dollars. His adopted Asian son can't keep his pants zipped. Did we mention his strict bishop father, the missing church funds, the AWOL (absent without leave) brother-in-law, the dead twin or Daniel's own dependence on painkillers?

By Amanda MacArthur : 2008-07-01 21:14:00 When I think of Aidan Quinn, the first thing that pops into my head are those blue eyes, and I'm not even a blue-eye-kind-of-gal. The next thing is Legends of the Fall ...

ABC's pilot "Prince of Motor City" is a drama co-written by a sitcom actor, loosely inspired by "Hamlet" and set in Detroit's auto industry.

Through the magic of DVD's, this deficit was easy enough to fix. The star studded cast includes Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn and Julia Ormond. via The Armchair Critic

“It's gotten more difficult. There are more supporting parts. There is less money. Everything is less.”

It's not as if Aidan Quinn had a lot of time to prepare for his role as a high-powered physics professor in 'Dark Matter,' opening today. Fact is, the makers of the low-budget film about the professional and personal conflicts between a Chinese exchange student and his department chair were desperate: The actor who was supposed to play the role of the older academic had dropped out due to other commitments, and the film was in its second week of production. So director Chen Shi-Zheng brainstormed with co-star Meryl Streep , who suggested the 49-year-old Irish-American actor, someone she had worked with in the past. Read more

Julianna Margulies plays the new breed of female TV character - the tough, messed-up professional - in "Canterbury's Law." Aidan Quinn stars as her husband in the Fox drama. via Buffalo News

“They are fast and furious and they are everywhere”

Aidan Quinn returns to the New York stage, co-starring in Richard Nelson's opportune Conversations in Tusculum . via Playbill

“How strange to have a cultivated woman in the house again-and how intoxicating. Indeed, to have all three of my sons under my roof again, fills me with such a deep, quiet satisfaction, that I thank God.”

Columbia TriStar Home Video presents Legends of the Fall "How strange to have a cultivated woman in the house again-and how intoxicating. via DigitallyOBSESSED.com

“I can't see things that are right in front of me, and I can see things that couldn't be there. ”

New Line Home Cinema presents Blink "I can't see things that are right in front of me, and I can see things that couldn't be there. via DigitallyOBSESSED.com

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English.”

"Lost" returns for its fourth season Thursday on ABC with "The Beginning of the End" episode. via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“When you are able to wed something - and it's a good, dramatic piece - with your work, that's the most gratifying.”

About 150 people laughed and reminisced with actor and local resident Aidan Quinn, who spoke at the Esplanade at Palisades yesterday. via The Patent Trader

Barry Levinson's Avalon is one of those personal projects that goes to the core of a certain issue or situation. via DigitallyOBSESSED.com

Actor Aidan Quinn will chat about his career with Didi Conn at 3:30 p.m. on Jan.20 as part of the Palisades Library's Sunday Symposium series at The Esplanade at Oak Tree Road, 640 Oak Tree Road in Palisades. via Journal News

The films 32A and SEAVIEW have been selected for the Berlinale, along with short films FRANKIE and NEW BOY. via The Irish World Newspaper

“The country you love and the values it represents are being destroyed by a misguided leader. You can continue to live in relative comfort by not involving yourself, or you can take action to save the democracy you love.”

Aidan Quinn has joined the cast for the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum , which is set to play the Public Theater in February. via Playbill

Bad news for all Bones fans out there. Apparently, FOX has decided to put off airing the remaining pre-strike episodes of the hit series until this spring. via BuddyTV

“It probably has to do with a combination of quality of life, natural attractions and some kind of threshold of like-kind people choosing such locations.”

Among the hundreds of people who attended a 2006 memorial for Lou Gross, the man who ran the Marbletown Transfer Station in Ulster County, were his close friends, people he jogged with regularly and those who ... via Poughkeepsie Journal