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Roy’s Sci-Fi: St. Patrick’s Day Hiatus

Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner will not be seen tonight, in order that we may better commune with St. Patrick.

However, if you get all sentimental after a few glasses of stout, you can always call up this classic episode from 2021, about “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” This is the one in which the viewers and I enjoy a private joke and get wasted at Roy’s expense (which is revealed only at the end of the show).

Sorry, I haven’t grown back the beard. I still look 20 years younger. But I’ll do my best to catch up with a night of hard living.

Later this weekend, be sure to join Roy and special guest, author and Starlog Magazine writer David Hirsch, as they discuss Professor Bernard Quatermass and his half-century of rescuing mankind from sinister alien forces, during the course of the various “Quatermass” adventures, on radio, television, and film.

The show will be livestreamed on Facebook, YouTube, etc., at a special time, THIS SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00 EDT.

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For now, remember to donnybrook responsibly. Roy and I will reconvene next Friday evening at 7:30 (provided somebody posts bail).

Sláinte!

March 17, 2023
Darby O’Gill Sean Connery & Wee Folk

It’s the “come hither” King Brian will be putting on you, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, as we settle in with our clay pipes, and with our pints in our fists, to discuss “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959).

Walt Disney’s tall tale about the wee folk makes clever use of matte paintings and forced perspective shots of a type later embraced by Peter Jackson in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But no special effect can disguise a 29 year-old Sean Connery, singing and flashing his dimples, as he attempts to handle a scythe.

Draw we round the cheerful ring. Two days after St. Paddy’s, we’ll be doling out the blarney, and laughing and weeping and donnybrooking for 60 hours and counting. Leave an eight-pack of Guinness in the comments section. There’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, as we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EDT.

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March 18, 2021
Perfect Match Murders Live Stream Darby O’Gill Review

The tie-dye is at the dry cleaners this weekend, as Roy takes off to appear in another mystery, “The Perfect Match Murders,” courtesy of Country Gate Players in Belvidere, NJ. Performances will be live-streamed, via Zoom, tomorrow at 8 pm EST and Sunday at 2 pm EDT. Admission is free, but donations help support the playhouse, which has been hard hit, like everyone else, by the deprivations of Covid. To register, visit billscurato.com.

Roy and I will reunite next Friday to chase away your delirium tremens, with a post-St. Patrick’s Day discussion of “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959). This Walt Disney classic pioneered forced perspective effects of a type employed so effectively in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Furthermore, it boasts an early film appearance by the late Sean Connery.

Be sure and save yourself a hair of the dog. We’ll see you next Friday, even as we’re seeing double, on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.

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March 12, 2021
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Irish Films Barry Fitzgerald

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

As an alternative to “The Quiet Man,” here’s Barry Fitzgerald as “the oldest man in the world,” in “Broth of a Boy”:

Manic leprechauns from “Darby O’Gill and the Little People”:

The great Albert Finney in “Miller’s Crossing.” (WARNING: This one’s a little violent. Poor resolution, too.)

Finally, since I’m not on the air, here’s one for Steffi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A

Sláinte, everyone!

PHOTO: St. Patrick’s Day death wish: keeping pace with Barry Fitzgerald

March 17, 2015

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