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Dylan McDermott

Out of Practice

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Lara Flynn Boyle & Dylan McDermott.

Flynn Boyle and McDermott are gone. ℘℘℘ Budget cuts (ABC offered to pick up the show for an eighth season but only at a lower fee) are said to have forced David E. Kelley, the creator of The Practice, to let go two of the series stars, Lara Flynn Boyle and Dylan McDermott. "It hurts, professionally and personally," Kelley said in a statement. "This is perhaps the finest group … [Read more...] about Out of Practice

Hollywood’s New Golden Boy

By Bryan Rohan

August / September 1999

August 20, 1999 by Leave a Comment

He could have been a bartender, instead Dylan McDermott is one of Hollywood's hottest leading men. Coming off the unprecedented hat-trick of being TV's Best Actor (according to the Emmys and the Golden Globes), becoming one of TV's "Ten Sexiest Men" (according to People Magazine), and, most importantly, becoming one of the Top 100 Irish Americans (according to this magazine), … [Read more...] about Hollywood’s New Golden Boy

August / September 1999

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May 13, 1842

The composer Arthur Sullivan was born in London to an Irish Italian mother, Mary Coughan and Irish-born father, Thomas Sullivan. Sullivan composed his first anthem at age 8. At age 14, he was awarded a scholarship to the London Academy of Music. Sullivan began a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert to create the comic opera “Thespis.” He would work with Giblert on fourteen light operas in all, including The Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado. Sullivan’s “Irish Symphony” was first performed in March 1866. He wrote it on holiday in Ireland: “As I was jolting home through wind and rain… in an open jaunting-car, the whole first movement of a symphony came into my head with a real Irish flavor about it – besides scraps of the other movements.”

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