('He was melting women at 50 feet,' sighed a 20th Century Fox representative.)īyrne's no-show also deprived the crowd of a chance to rub shoulders with his wife, steamy actress Ellen Barkin ('The Big Easy,' 'Sea of Love'). But he canceled out after doing 48 eight-minute television interviews during an all-day press junket Sunday. Hundreds of women were there to eye the movie's much-touted leading man, Gabriel Byrne - who looks like a young Peter O'Toole with coal-black hair and sounds like an Irish dream come true. Yuppie pulses did not race, the windows did not steam. The temperature at last night's premiere screening of 'Miller's Crossing' remained near normal.
