Talk this week was of the romantic comedy About Adam, which went on general release last night. The star himself, Stuart Townsend, does not attend the Dublin premiere party and screening this week, as he is out of the country - he's in Los Angeles completing work on Queen of the Damned, the third book in the Anne Rice Lestat series about vampires.
Lovers of minutiae swop titbits of information about the film at a post-screening party in Bob's Bar in Temple Bar, where a number of the scenes in the film were shot. One piece of trivia is that the photographs which are being hung in one scene by Adam in Dublin's Gallery of Photography, are those taken by Waterford artist, Michael Durand. The shots are part of a body of work, which centre around a telephone kiosk in Pigalle, Paris, and photographing those who used it - from the waist down.
Talk also centres on the busy actor, Rosaleen Linehan, who plays a starring role in the Gerry Stembridge film. It is noted that, within the next couple of weeks, she will have two more gala evenings to attend - as the Beckett film, Happy Days, is due for release shortly, along with Ulysess, the black and white film which has been banned since the 1960s and is to be premiered early next month. As the party carries on into the night, Stembridge, who has just returned from a holiday in San Francisco, is tired but happy.
