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Colin Farrell: Living Dangerously

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Jane Kelly attempts to pad her book with long drawn out explanations of the plot of every film Farrell has done. Page after page of plot and character descriptions that have little to do with the subject at hand. At other times she pads this book with long winded descriptions of some of the characters to enter in to Farrell's life. Do we need to read three pages about a soapopera star he had a two week affair with?Then there are the times she plays arm chair psychologist disecting farrell's childhood and relations with women with the insight of someone who has just completed their first week of psych 101. To top it all off there are glaring mistakes, most notably a caption reads "Colin is worried about his hair on the David Letterman show in 1993", yet it is Jay leno sitting at the desk in the picture. There are several misquotes that distort Farrell's intentions. This is a piss poor attempt even for a tabloid level biography. Save your money and read about the guy on the web if you are really that curious. All the quotes from him are from old interviews anyway.

Ms Kelly writes well enough, and seems to have some insight into the person of Colin Farrell, but the books does leave you wondering whether she cared enough to dig beneath the outer. For me Colin Farrell is a brilliant young artist who knows what he wants and has gone after it. He has a tremendous love for his family and his kids. Lately reports have appeared that he has cleaned up his partying act and is settling down, spending quality time with the kids, etc and that is good. I for one would like to see Colin around for many years to come as I really like him as an actor.