It's a wonderful life
When Trey met Mary (and Tarrantino, Warhol, Farb & Obama): A unique 30-year friendship is told in art
Jun 17, 2011 | 10:30 am
Trey Speegle met Mary Hayslip in 1980 on a disco dance floor of what is now Menil’s Richmond Hall. She remembers saying, “I think we’re going to be good friends." And they have been.
QUENTIN’S A “DREAM BOAT” My good friend Michel O’Donoghue passed away suddenly in ‘94. He and his wife, Cheryl Hardwick, had this great manor house called Garranbaun House in the west of Ireland that I had visited the previous summer. Cheryl decided to sell the house and I was making a documentary on Michael’s life, so we found ourselves back at Garranbaun in the summer of ‘95. Quentin Tarrantino had come for a visit with his girlfriend, Grace, and his old pal, Julia Sweeney. Long story, but we had a house full of interesting people including Allegra Huston and Kate O’Toole (famous fathers John and Peter), who have remained two of my closest friends. Writer Allegra Huston, from left, Cheryl Hardwick (kneeling), Quentin’s girlfriend Grace, actress Kate O‘Toole, writer and actress Julia Sweeney in front of Quentin, local solicitor Emer Joyce, Trey, friend Tom Carolan and artist David McDermott on the very small island, Little Inishturk, Connemara, Ireland, summer 1995
