THE SOCIAL NETWORK:At the opening of Glengarry Glen Ross at the Gate Theatre in Dublin on Tuesday evening, Kathleen Watkins still hadn't made up her mind whether she was going to attend last night's 50th-anniversary Late Late Show. She said she always prefers to sit at home watching it on television, with a little gin and tonic in her hand.
Gay Byrne said: “She’s expected to be there, but that’s entirely her decision. I can do nothing about these things any more.”
Watkins is taking part in the first in a series of three lunchtime poetry readings, celebrating WB Yeats at the National Gallery of Ireland, with Prof Maurice Harmon, starting on Wednesday.
The American actor Reg Rogers, who plays Richard Roma in the play, thinks it is quite expensive over here. He is enjoying his stay in Molesworth Court. “It’s great to have my own kitchen. The guy who looks after my finances told me to eat in every night or I’d be in trouble.”
The director of the Gate, Michael Colgan, was accepting plaudits from theatregoers for his own performance on RTÉ’s The Frontline the previous evening.
Who we spottedActor Tom Hickey; Gerry Purcell and his wife, Aisling Gleeson; gallerist Mandy Nulty; Norma Smurfit; restaurateur Ronan Ryan