Derry O'Brien and Bill Kroyer The country of Ireland was bursting with pride the last 30 days... FIVE Oscar nominations. You can read about all of the Irish Oscar nominees here. Since my short film THREE-FIFTY is distributed by Network Ireland-TV as are the two Oscar nominated shorts from Ireland, ("Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" and "The Door") I was able to meet and spend some time with both production teams. First, we saw the special screening of all of the Oscar nominated shorts at The Academy on Tuesday night. Apparently the event sold out just 15 minutes after tickets went on sale. That's fantastic! This year, once the Oscar nominated short films were announced, they scheduled them to screen in over 100 cities. See schedule for remaining cities/dates here: http://www.shortshd.com/theoscarshorts/ If you can't see them in the theater, they are also available online at iTunes for just $1.99 each. All you have to do is look at my Twitter page to know my personal favorite. Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty. Precious, hilarious, creative, artistic and genius. That's about all I can say. I've posted it for you below. ENJOY! Granny O'Grimm earrings! Kathleen O'Rourke is the creator, writer and voice of Granny O'Grimm. And she is as precious in real life as her creation would suggest. I became Granny's #1 Fan, creating Granny O'Grimm earrings to wear in support on Oscar night....LOL ! The Granny O'Grimm earrings should show up on Irish Television today... too much fun. Kathleen O'Rourke Oscar night! When a "fashion emergency" arrived regarding Kathleen's shoes for Oscar night, distributor Derry O'Brien knew just who to call -- Yes, that would be me. I stepped into "big sister" mode and was ready to have my shoe designer friend Krista de la Harpe overnight some of her gorgeous Millenium Shoes shoes from Dallas if necessary. My god -- fashion on Oscar night -- that is a true fashion emergency!! We spent just 1/2 a day shopping and we were all ready. (Thanks to Roderigo at Bloomingdales for the crystal theme!) She ultimately chose mirrored tiled strappy shoes, crystals on her toes, a loan from Swarovski Crystals for her bag and her crystal bracelet and she was GORGEOUS!! The dress was on loan from a young Korean designer who is married to an Irishman, the earrings, smashing 10 carat diamond earrings from Irish designer, she did her country up proud. Later, I'll share with you the fun from watching The Oscars at the Irish Film Board Party. ;-))
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Hugh O'Rourke
3/8/2010 08:50:07 pm
Denise and I sewnd you sincere thanks for your kindness to Kathleen and for posting so many lovely pictures of her progress down Sunset Boulevard in so many places on the web
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Melinda Augustina is an actress and producer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and his wine collection. If you'd like more musings from her universe, you can follow her on Twitter as @PowerHungryFilm or become a fan on her Facebook Fan Page Categories
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