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F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Show me a hero, I’ll write you a tragedy.” (opens the original)
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Scott Fitzgerald had a tragic life in many ways — suffering because of how he was wired — he was a bundle of nerves — and when and where he was plunked down in this world, all of which he poured into his art. He poured himself into everything he did. He cared deeply and was particularly focused on the promise of youth, and gave of himself— helping many rising young writers make their mark, most famously Ernest Hemingway. Scott was the first Irish Catholic American novelist of prominence. So prom
'High Society' and 'The Philadelphia Story': Grace and love (opens the original)
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High Society (1956) — that classic summer tale, set in Newport, Rhode Island, with a star-studded cast, including Bing Crosby; Grace Kelly (poised at the time to marry Rainier III, Prince of Monaco); Frank Sinatra; and Louis Armstrong — is a story of grace and redemption. For the play on which this musical remake of the original 1940 film, The Philadelphia Story, was based, was written by Philip Barry, born to a well-to-do Irish-American devoutly Catholic family. Formed at Catholic schools in Ro
Louis Armstrong’s life & music, Holy Spirit infused (opens the original)
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Famed for his spirited rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” larger-than-life jazz legend Louis Armstrong, nicknamed “Satchmo,” was full of flaws — too fond of things that cut his life short and impacted his married love. But he had a heart bigger than New Orleans — and a soul imprinted with baptismal grace shortly after his birth 125 years ago, on August 4, 1901, when his grandmother Josephine, a practicing Catholic, took her cutie-pie baby grandson to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church
Flannery O’Connor at 100: An overview of her life (opens the original)
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She gradually discovered that all God asked of her was to write. Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American writer steeped in the richness of Catholicism, with Southern Gothic sensibilities highlighting how epic human failings give way to a higher morality. A devout Catholic, whose Irish émigré paternal great grandparents hailed from County Wexford, she gradually discovered that all God asked of her was to write. She was not meant to give great alms or pour herself into a cloistered supplication, th
Joan Leslie: Classic Hollywood star who was true to herself (opens the original)
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On October 12, 2015, almost 55 years to the day after she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she died in Los Angeles at age 90. Joan Leslie was a darling and talented star who radiated refreshing innocence. But she was no ingénue. Rather she embodied a simple yet multilayered high moral character. As Velma Goodhue in High Sierra (1941), she played a young working-class girl with disability; hardened criminal Roy Earle, played by Humphrey Bogart, befriends her. Earle pays for an ope
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