At Swim Two Boys

The thinking was that extending the broadcast day by one hour could help recover some of that income. Established as more of an intimate talk show, Tomorrow differed from Tonight and later late-night fare, with host Snyder conducting one-on-one interviews sans audience, cigarette in hand, no writing staff or scripted pieces, alternating between asking hard-hitting questions and offering personal observations that made the interview closer to a genuine conversation. As an unproven entity ratings-wise, the show wasn't widely embraced across the NBC television network, experiencing issues with programming clearances as significant number of local affiliates opted to continue with popular show reruns or old movies in the 1 a. Two weeks into Tomorrow's run, the New York Times television and cultural critic John Leonardwriting under the pen name Cyclops, assessed the new late-night program as not decided whether it wants to be newspaper, full of headlines and opinions, or a collection of old magazine articles, further stating that it is neither balm nor shock therapy, it neither entertains nor inspires. The practice would go on to become one of the show's most recognizable traits.

His critically-acclaimed novel, At Swim, Two Boys earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent claims that he was the accepted successor to James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. O'Neill was unhappy at home; he had a very difficult affiliation with his father and ran away from home at become old O'Neill was the partner of television presenter Russell Harty designed for six years until Harty's bereavement in His current partner is Julien Joly, a former bop dancer who now works at the same time as a Shiatsu therapist. Hounded as a result of the tabloid press, O'Neill's bare photograph was splashed across the front of the Sunday Mirror; the picture was taken abruptly after his arrival in London when he earned some capital as a model. This broadsheet coverage was how O'Neill's parents in Ireland discovered that their son was gay.