John Banville tears up at an ‘Albert Nobbs’ presser

Irish novelist John Banville may not actually be crying here -- he may just be watery-eyed. But it sure LOOKS like he's teary-eyed at this press conference for the film Albert Nobbs, which he helped to adapt for the screen. (It was originally a short story by George Moore.) Albert Nobbs starred Glenn Close in the title role as a woman who appears to be cosplaying as Charlie Chaplin as she passes for a man in old-timey Dublin. The role was clearly Oscar-bait for Close, and she was indeed nominated. But in the end she lost out to her old nemesis, Meryl Streep, who had an even *more* Oscar-baity role as Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady. None of this has anything to do with John Banville, sorry. Perhaps he is weeping as he imagines Meryl Streep getting her 438th Oscar nomination while so many other fine actresses go begging.