Sidewalks
by Tom DeignanRSS 
Recent Posts
- 'The Great Gatsby' author F Scott Fitzgerald’s death and burial another Catholic lesson
- Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor and the Italian mob and Irish Americans strong ties
- Victor Navasky lauds Thomas Nast - American cartoonist known for his racist Irish ape-like drawings
- Immigration is not the problem - history of anti-Irish behavior reflecting on the Chechnyan bombs in Boston
- The good old anti-British days - Margaret Thatcher haters and spats in New York during World War II
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On April 3, the long-awaited mini-series The Kennedys will air on cable TV.
Starring the likes of Greg Kinnear and Mrs. Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, the mini-series was famously dropped from another cable channel a few months back. Rumors swirled that members of the Kennedy clam were displeased by its depiction of Jack and Bobby and the patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy.
Well, the mini-series will finally air beginning April 3 on something called Reelz. This may turn out to be much ado about…well, not very much. Most of us, like it or not, already know much more about the Kennedys than we want to know.
A friend of mine came up to me the other day and mentioned that a new movie called Kill the Irishman, was about to open.
“How many of these Boston Irish mob movies are they going to make?” he added.
I pointed out that Kill the Irishman, which opened this week and stars Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken, is actually set in Cleveland.
But his point was well taken.
Read more: Why not have Muslim congressman investigate Catholic Church scandals, ala Peter King?
Read more: IrishCentral founder on 'Hardball' with Chris Matthews
There is a group in America. They are a minority, but they are quite a high-profile group, especially in and around large cities.
