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Irish Eye on Hollywood: March / April 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by 1 Comment

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in The Irishman.

THE IRISHMAN FOR 2020? It’s time for Academy Award predictions – for 2020!  It’s never too early to look ahead and see which films Hollywood honchos are positioning as Oscar bait, to lure crowds away from their iPhone apps and Netflix accounts. The influential show biz web site IMDB.com ranks The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s next movie (to be released by Netflix, of course), as … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: March / April 2019

Roots:
The Unrelated Ryan Girls

By Marsha Sorotick, Contributor
June / July 2016

June 1, 2016 by 1 Comment

Whether it’s stomping the boards on Broadway or on Hollywood’s silver screen, these girls all share a love of performance. Perhaps it’s in the DNA?Thinking about writing an article for Irish America, I recalled the childhood games my mother and I would play on long car rips. We named state capitals, movie titles and how many famous people we could list with the same last name. … [Read more...] about Roots:
The Unrelated Ryan Girls

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