On the Line

by Thomas M. Kelly

Overview

Timothy 'Timmo' O'Connor O'Leary is a street attorney. He is a sole practitioner because straight out of law school, 40 years ago, he couldn't find anyone who wanted to practice with him. "Why?", you ask. Could it be that he is overweight? Could be. Is it because he always looks as if he owns one suit (He actually owns two.) and looks as if he'd just awakened from a deep turbulent sleep in it (He did and has for the past week. His housekeeper, Geraldine, hasn't seen him in over a week. Otherwise she would have grabbed it and had it cleaned and pressed.)? Could it be that he drinks too much? Could be. (He always has something near to "warm" him.) Could it be that he knows more about criminal law (and will tell you so) than any other attorney in town? Could be. Could it be that he knows more about our Constitution and how the protects his client? Could be. Could it be that he always seems to have but one client at a time? And that the presiding judges seem to keep him busy as court appointed attorney for the most the most needy despite Timmo's eccentricities, his habits, his weaknesses, his dependencies, his attire, his temperament, his character because no other lawyer would take the case.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011474682
Publisher:	Thomas M. Kelly
Publication date:	08/10/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	275 KB

About the Author

Résumé:
Thomas M. Kelly
EDUCATION: Mr. Kelly was born and raised in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a graduate of Hayes Catholic High School, a graduate of Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY. and went on to attend two years at the University of California, Davis and is a graduate of Lincoln Law School, Sacramento, California.
"Once a Marine, always a Marine" ('57 - '60).
PUBLISHED: A monologue, "Sara", from his play "...smile, and smile, and be a villain.", is included in Young Women's Monologs From Contemporary Plays: Professional Auditions For Aspiring Actresses, edited byGerald Lee Ratliff, State University New York, Potsdam and published in 2004 by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. A monologue, "Zhev", from his play "Fana!" will be published by Smith & Kraus Inc. in an anthology: 221 One-Minute Monologues From Literature. JAC Publishing, Burlington, MA, has published interJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature contains three of Mr. Kelly's monologues.
HONORS: "The Butterfly Within" is included in the Eileen Heckart's Senior Drama Archives in the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University.
LOCAL THEATRE AWARDS: Several Elly Nominations and Elly Awards including Best Overall Production, for "A Shayna Madel" by Barbara Lebow, and Best Set, for "Nighthawks and Night Café" by Edward Evan Blake, based on the painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. "Wake up, Jay! It's Christmas!", winner of four Elly Awards for Young Peoples Theatre, including Best Overall Production.
OTHER WORKS: "Mixville" (Jubal 'Tom Mix' McCabe is a happy-go-lucky, wanna-be cowboy movie star. As a youngster he was a "little Tom Mix", cleaning out a nest of imaginary outlaws in the family backyard in typical Tom Mix fashion. Those were the days of the popular dream: to grow up to be like Tom Mix.), "Extreme Unction"; "The Timekeeper"; "Zen and the Art of Making Par"; "The Butterfly Within" (A heartwarming story of culture clash as an old Jewish gentleman and a young Korean girl discover the meaning of the rest of their lives atop a Lower East Side tenement); "Fana!", (The ordeal of three trapped survivors of suicide bomb blasts spend their last hours justifying their lives and religions: two very honestly, the third very deceitfully. In a mental duel the three argue the rationale of murder/suicide bombings using the Qur'an, Hindu philosophy and the Torah as authority.); and "smile, and smile, and be a villain."; (...