


Of this total of 22, 13 lived.” None, however, quite like Christy. Its tough-minded, unsentimental writing and ferociously brilliant acting-across the board and especially at the top-manage to give a pretty good idea of what Christy Brown, the Dublin-born writer, poet and painter, was all about.Īs Brown began the autobiography he called “My Left Foot,” in honor of the only limb he could control enough to write with: “There were nine children before me and 12 after me. This one you see for the pure love of great movie making. So don’t think that seeing “My Left Foot” (at Horton Plaza) wins you some kind of spiritual merit badge. Who goes to the movies for moral uplift? You want moral uplift, go to the Ice Capades.
