Con O'Neill Cinematic Universe

THE GOOD NEWS: I survived my hell semester of grad school and got excellent final grades!

THE BAD NEWS: School I work at starts back next Monday, so I am going to be SWAMPED with clueless freshmen for at least a month (it’s OK; we’ve all been them).

Bought this sticker tonight in hopes of being able to give it to Con at a con (ha ha) someday. It just reminded me a lot of the stuff he says and it gives me hope.

It’s here!!!

I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it to Supercon (and Lord knows if Con is ever going to come to Dragon Con), so I was thrilled when I saw they were selling convention pre-order autographs. Mine arrived last week and it just further reinforces what a mensch Mr. O’Neill is.

Why? The only personalization you could order was your name and/or a very short character quote. I shelled out the $10 for my name expecting just that: my name and a signature. Instead, that man took the time to write “with love” as well, and I bet he did on ALL of them.

So I was TRYING to just sort through/re-label the Con O'Neill filmography files I already had, but I was stopped dead in my tracks by this Ordinary Lies sad puppy face.

In case you can't get enough of Con's "laidback luxuriously smoky and husky tone."

No real post right now, but I did just download a browser add on so I could screencap protected videos. Which means you can all look forward to 

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So!

1. I got married/honeymooned.

2. Barely a month later my husband broke his leg and I had to play caregiver for two months until he was semi-mobile.

3. Grad school started again.

I’m sure whatever audience I had before all this has probably gone, but I’ve acquired a lot of Con O’Neill performances, and I’ll be DAMNED if I let them go to waste (also the man is just a pleasure to watch). 

Posts will be sporadic, but to quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail,

Finally was able to scan the remaining Con mentions from this book!

While searching for the Mother Clap’s Molly House photo in the last post I ran across a 2009 article about Con replacing a departing Matt Lucas in a play version of Prick Up Your Ears (which I only knew as a 1987 film staring Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina that I always meant to watch but never quite got around to).     

So if you’ve ever wondered what a bald and creepy Con O’Neill would look like, feast your eyes on these!

Unfortunately, Con was not enough to save the show. According to Wikipedia he took over the role October 23rd and the show closed November 15th. Producers cited poor box office sales “despite very good feedback and notices for Con O'Neill's performance.”

So we’ve all drooled over seen this photo, yes?

Well again thanks to interlibrary loan, I’ve managed to get a book about the play’s production entitled Inside the Molly House: The National Theatre at Work by Jonathan Croall. It just came in for me today, so I’ve only skimmed it, but please enjoy the little bit of Con content I’ve found and scanned.

In the meantime:

So I can’t actually afford this Blood Brothers souvenir program on eBay, but at least I can enjoy Con’s supremely 80s hair.

Especially since someone posted an alternate (and larger) version of that pic on his Twitter back in 2019!

I had hoped to write more on here while at the Mayo Clinic for my father’s surgery, but turns out that lengthy travel plus concern about your elderly parent’s health really takes it out of you mentally and physically. Who knew?

SO. I am taking a shortcut and presenting without commentary a complete scan of the brief liner notes from the 1991 Original Cast Recording of...

(Obtained via interlibrary loan! Support your local libraries, y’all!)