Passion = Truth? How Jeffrey James Francis Ircink Sees The World? I love when people are passionate about something. That surging of emotion is the one honest measure of what truth is. It's a truthful display of how a person really feels about something or someone at that particular moment. That passion IS truth.



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Greendale, Wisconsin, United States
Ex-producer of THE REALLY FUNNY HORNY GOAT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, playwright, actor, singer, outdoorsman, blogger, amateur photog, observer & bitcher, Beach Boys groupie, Brett Favre fanatic, lover of everything Celtic and forever a member in the Tribe of HAIR. Spent most of my life in the Village of Waterford, a small town just outside of the Milwaukee suburbs. After 12 years in North Hollywood, Bel Air and Culver City, Cali, I moved back to Wisconsin in September 2009. No regrets - of moving to LA OR moving back to WI. Have traveled to Belfast, Ireland, Dayton (OH), Manhattan, Seattle, Cedar Rapids, New York, Miami and Sydney, Australia with my plays. Moved back into the Village of Greendale where I was born. Life is good.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

"The Lakehouse"

I haven't cried watching a movie in a while.

Did I cry during Atonement? I may have. Teared up. No - I teared up during The Lakehouse but I didn't cry.

So - The Lakehouse. Loved it. Two-thirds of the critics didn't but I never pay attention to them anyway. I'm not going to rehash the plot - you can look it up yourself. It's actually a re-make ofa 2000 Korean film called, Il Mare. - a man and woman fall in love through letters they've exchanged but they, in fact, exist two years apart from each other...she in 2006 and he in 2004. You have to pay attention.

Listen - I can't stand Sandra Bullock. I don't remember the last movie I saw her in. Keanu Reeves I can take but he's not in my top 100 actors. But the architecture of the lakehouse (it was built in Chicago for the movie and then dismanteled) sucked me in. I'm a huge Frank Lloyd Wright fan (who is mentioned in the movie) and I've been researching some play ideas based on Wright. The music's great (Paolo Conte) and the love story - the love story suckered me in right away. I know what it's like to long for someone who's out of your reach (however you wanna define that), so I felt empathy toward both characters.

I was begging like a little girl for the characters to end up happy.

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