There Will Be Mitching

This was made in 2009 with the Transition Year students of the Presentation College, Athenry. Of the three classes I worked with, they were by far the most challenging i.e. 95% of them were dicks, although in their defence they were 16 and in a big group.

Special thanks to the 5% who were a lot of fun to work with and to the Galway Film Centre for the gig. Huge thanks to Eddie Connolly who helped me out hugely by playing Garda Eddie once more. He is far too modest and nice then anyone who is as funny as he is has a right to be. He could have really lorded that fact over me but he comes from a nice family.

Thanks to my mother Madely and my buddy Eoghan Quinn, who both took time out of shaping young minds to watch me hold a camera and scream unintelligibly at a group of moody teenagers.

This won an award. I didn't go to the screening and presentation of said award for fear that the kids would lynch me. I would like to dedicate this film to the lookalike I sent in my place who was tragically separated from his head at the 2009 Fresh Film Festival.

Enjoy!

Gangbusters Podcast Episode 5 "Petition.ie/Det Deegan" is now online

http://web.me.com/gangbusters/Site/Gangbusters/Gangbusters.html

Read it and weep scumbags.

Sorry, where are my manners, that might have been a bit hostile. How are you? Good? Good. Anything else? No? Fine.

I am pleased to announce that after a 2 week delay we've got a brand new episode of Gangbusters crammed full
of funny people and me struggling with my zoom recorder.

This week I'm joined by Petition.ie founder Gavin Portcullis (Kieran Lawless) about his inspiration behind the website, his plans to get The Offspring to play Croke Park and a proposed replacement for the Dublin Spire.

12:40 Kevin has an indecent proposal thrust upon him by his new boss.

16:35 We fast forward a week to interview the actor who plays Fair City's Detective Deegan who likes to be referred to only as Detective Deegan. He talks about his blooming props business, his inability to get paid, Shane McGowan's new boyband, various run ins with The Apprentice boss Bill Cullen and the Detectives confused relationship with Gabriel Byrne.

Theme music "The Next Last Thing" by So Cow from the album "These Truly Are End Times" available on i-tunes.
Thanks to Brian Kelly whose 2XM show "Fun To Hum" is on Monday at 11am, repeated on Friday at 10pm and is available on RTE Digital Radio.
Outro music: "Boom in the Sky" by Mali Junior from the album "The Smell of Bees" which you can also find on i-tunes.

Please write a nice review or rate us on i-tunes. If you can't be arsed doing that then the least you can do is become a fan on facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gangbusters/126039257414423?ref=ts

Fun Facts About The Guests
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- Kieran was my flatmate for the summer of 2006. He was neat both in terms of cleanliness and character. I was neither. I used a globey glass light cover as an ashtray and pretended that the smoke was Kitty O'Shea's ghost rising up to meet Parnell in heaven.
- Back then, Kieran was one year older then me and I one year younger. To date this has not changed.
- Emmet was the founder and first MC of Basement Club Comedy night comedy in DeBurgo's where myself, Kieran, Bob Hennigan, Sean Sheridan happily dicked about for years.
- Emmet once had a cigarette with Pete Postlethwaite and said he was sound.*

(To clarify, Emmet told me that Pete Postlethwaite was sound. He didn't tell Pete Postlethwaite that he was sound. Pete Postlethwaite probably already knew that he was sound but didn't want to lord it over everyone. Because he was so sound.)


Not So Fun Facts
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Pete Postlethwaite died earlier this year. His last film was "Inception", no matter what imdb says about something called "Killing Bono".

How a Hollywood hit became a criminal idea

by Giles Brody

If hacks borrow and geniuses steal, into what category do we put thieves who steal their criminal ideas from films? On Sunday, a daring raid in suburban Chicago was carried out by two armed criminals dressed in plastic nun habits, complete with masks. Their dress and robbery style was identical to those used by the career criminals in Ben Affleck's critically praised 2010 movie, The Town, set in Charlestown, Massachussetts, "the bank robbery capital of America".

Affleck's sophomore film made its way onto a number of critic’ Top 10 lists, but is now top of a less appealing chart. Since its release in September last year, the Oscar- nominated film has been cited as a direct inspiration in three different armed robberies.

The first real-life homage was staged in Gwinnett County, Georgia in December. Two men entered a jewellery store wearing clown and camouflage masks, and brandishing weapons. They made off with $68,000 in sparklers. It wasn't until a few days later when officers stopped a car flagged for auto thefts that the gang’s identity was uncovered. The police found four masks and a black Glock replica BB gun. Seung Woo Park, 18, admitted to police that the heist was inspired by the The Town.

The second copycat robbery was in early January in Florida, when two robbers wearing masks, dark clothing and gloves entered the Delray Beach bank. One robber controlled the crowd while the other went for the vault; he secured $67,000 before they escaped in a silver Cadillac. Their perfect getaway was hindered by police and news helicopters, which chased the thieves across three counties. The criminals abandoned the Cadillac but were rounded up by police shortly afterwards. Once again, one of the alleged robbers said he got the idea from The Town.

The third copycat raid - by far the most loyal to the source material – took place on Sunday in a Chicago suburb. Two robbers, one female and one male, entered the TFC Bank dressed as nuns and brandishing weapons, and made off with an undisclosed sum, which, if the pattern of the other crimes is consistent, was presumably $66,000 (and only 65 more copycats until The Town's copycat robberies become financially unedifying) . The nuns escaped and, as yet, police have no clues as to their identities. Perhaps this time they actually were reverend sisters.*

For criminals to take cues from popular films is hardly new. In 2008, two men were arrested after a heist reminiscent of the opening scene of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 movie, Snatch. Jules Dassin's masterful 1955 crime film Rififi was banned in Mexico and Finland because its atmospheric, 30-minute heist sequence was considered a how-to guide for budding jewel thieves. Logic has prevented real life reenactments of Reservoir Dogs from happening (Sunglasses. Pros: look cool. Cons: only cover a tenth of the face) . However there's evidence that not all thieves are as cunning. You’d have thought that the ending of The Town - where several of the gang members meet with sticky ends - would have put off most would-be criminals. But perhaps they were too busy hatching their plan to watch the whole film. **

* John wrote this joke. Thanks John.
** someone at The Independent wrote that last line. Kudos to you, whoever you are

(c) Independent UK, pg 26/27 "i"
3/6/11