London, Apr 4: Tom Cruise's Irish ancestry has been certified in a ceremony in Dublin, following the discovery that the star has descended from a heroic potato famine landlord.
Tourism Ireland had conducted research into the 50-year-old actor's ancestry and found out that his great-great-great grandfather had been a landlord called Patrick Russell Cruise, who restored evicted families to their home farms before the Great Famine, the Telegraph reported.
Tanaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore presented Cruise with a framed certificate.
Researchers also found that the Cruise family line dated back to the Anglo-Normans.
Tourism Ireland had conducted research into the 50-year-old actor's ancestry and found out that his great-great-great grandfather had been a landlord called Patrick Russell Cruise, who restored evicted families to their home farms before the Great Famine, the Telegraph reported.
Tanaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore presented Cruise with a framed certificate.
Researchers also found that the Cruise family line dated back to the Anglo-Normans.
- 4/4/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Whether they were dealing with drownings, poisonings or child abduction, British public information films never held back. Jude Rogers finds out why they're still haunting the imaginations of today's directors
One afternoon in 1973, Terry Sue-Patt got on a bus with some friends from a community theatre and travelled to a river on the outskirts of London. Here, the 10-year-old would unwittingly star in one of the scariest public information films of all time. "We all thought it was a lovely day out," he remembers. "We were just told to jump up and down near the water, play with sticks, mess about. When I saw the finished film, and saw a man in a black cape standing behind us, I had quite a different reaction."
Forty years after their heyday, British public information films continue to haunt the memories of those who saw them – and those who appeared in them. In 90 short seconds of Lonely Water,...
One afternoon in 1973, Terry Sue-Patt got on a bus with some friends from a community theatre and travelled to a river on the outskirts of London. Here, the 10-year-old would unwittingly star in one of the scariest public information films of all time. "We all thought it was a lovely day out," he remembers. "We were just told to jump up and down near the water, play with sticks, mess about. When I saw the finished film, and saw a man in a black cape standing behind us, I had quite a different reaction."
Forty years after their heyday, British public information films continue to haunt the memories of those who saw them – and those who appeared in them. In 90 short seconds of Lonely Water,...
- 11/26/2010
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
Britain is about to become a different country – the loss of the Ark Royal is the least of it
One of my presents for the Christmas of 1956 was a fat little book called All About Ships and Shipping, edited by Ep Harnack and very nicely got up by Faber & Faber with semaphore flags and rolling waves impressed on its blue cloth binding. Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten. This week I took it out to look at the Royal Navy's fleet list in that long-ago era. Classes were lined up below their different silhouettes: cruisers, minelayers, destroyers, frigates, monitors, minesweepers, torpedo boats. There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the...
One of my presents for the Christmas of 1956 was a fat little book called All About Ships and Shipping, edited by Ep Harnack and very nicely got up by Faber & Faber with semaphore flags and rolling waves impressed on its blue cloth binding. Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten. This week I took it out to look at the Royal Navy's fleet list in that long-ago era. Classes were lined up below their different silhouettes: cruisers, minelayers, destroyers, frigates, monitors, minesweepers, torpedo boats. There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the...
- 10/23/2010
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
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