‘Star Wars’ & ‘Pretty Ugly,’ completely different, yet both carve intriguing stories through the
Pre-holiday movie madness begins in two weeks (Friday, December 15 to be exact) when the long-awaited Star Wars blockbuster, ‘The Last Jedi,’ hits a screen near you. And there’s a link to suspense novel, ‘Pretty Ugly.’ Not, it’s not (yet) that death-defying Luke Skywalker has agreed to the role of Colm, the intrepid Irish reporter who stumbles upon a devastating secret, though actor Mark ‘Skywalker’ Hamill, says he loves Ireland and would come back anytime, so don’t rule it o
My Peculiar Movie Story
It’s not often one watches an exciting suspense movie based on true events, then wander into a bar an hour later and meet some of the very people involved in the real thing. But that happened to me recently. It was an intriguing, once-in-a-lifetime experience. And, who knows, may lead to my novel ‘Pretty Ugly’ being turned into a big hit at the box-office. I’m not what you’d call a movie buff, in part because the nearest cinema is over an hour from my home along a winding mou
Let’s Talk About Gold
Considering it's the world’s most precious metal, the most status of symbols and the world’s first ever currency and has been around since ancient times - flakes of it having been found in Paleolithic caves dating back to 40,000 BC - gold is so valuable that even Egyptian pharaohs and temple priests adorned themselves with the stuff as an integral part of their rituals. I came closest to it in my lifetime this summer while meeting with the much-respected Mugur Isarescu, Gover
