He’s followed up his throwaway appearance in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton by showing up in a smart, low-key, Hollywood film manned by a proven, respected director/screenwriter. For your next trick Topher, stay away from lame animated voice-overs (don’t answer your phone if you receive a call from Madonna), avoid buddy-cop comedies, and run like hell if you should bump into McG. Take a lesson from your In Good Company costar Scarlett Johansson and simply pick good projects. Don’t go for money, at least not at first. If you need a paycheck movie, do that later, after you’ve proven your mettle. Scarlett waited until last year to show up in The Perfect Score. By then she’d already been in contention for an Oscar.

Besides, you’re coming from a successful, long running sitcom that after you leave will still be on air in heavy syndication. You don’t really need more money, unless you plan to form some sort of massive, rapper-like posse. For you though, I don’t think an entourage is right idea. Here’s a good way to handle your career: Don’t take advice from Ashton Kutcher and don’t hire Dax Shepard.

Dublin ’s Abbey Theater gave a stage to Yeats and other dramatists: J. M Synge, George Moore, and Sean O’Casey. Richard Sheridan and George Bernard Shaw were born in Dublin. James Joyce grew up in Dublin, city of his birth, and it is reflected in autobiographical book Portrait of an Artist As A Young Man, a work that cuts a deep slice into city, country, and culture.

Trinity College in Dublin is oldest in Ireland, and it has pumped out many distinguished writers, such as Thomas Moore and Oliver Goldsmith to Oscar Wilde. But Trinity has a Protestant tinge, while Joyce was a Catholic. Even though Joyce spent most of his time in Europe writing, his eye for discernment was distinctly as a Dubliner. His most famous work, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922, same year Republic of Ireland was formed after over 300 years of English lordship. Ulysses is about a single day, Thursday, June 16, 1904, same year National Theatre incubated Abbey. The focus of book is on a Dubliner named Leopold Bloom, and you meet numerous Dubliners throughout novel. It is a tightly woven tapestry of Dublin. The Martellow Tower, a central point in book, still stands in Dublin. The towers were built by British to thwart a possible invasion from Napoleon.

It was an educated and sophisticated audience in attendance night I attended packed Abbey for drama, Observe Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme. The dire forewarning of a shaky independence spotlights Ulster boys preparing and then fighting in WWI trenches of France in 1916, same year that foment of Irish Independence rears its head, which was so magnificently captured in movie, Ryan’s Daughter. It is also ironic that this drama would play in Republic of Ireland’s largest city, while Ulster is in Northern Ireland.

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