It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and changed the face of television. Few could gave guessed its success. But nobody would have predicted: that the Irish would come to dominate critically acclaimed drama all over the cable landscape.
Australian actress Rose Byrne is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated role in the hit FX legal drama “Damages," but now she appears for the first time as the leading lady in a major blockbuster.
In 1999 Denis Leary, creator and star of the hugely popular series Rescue Me, lost his first cousin and a high school classmate in a fire in an abandoned warehouse in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. To work though his overwhelming loss he founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation a year later, an organization that intentionally cuts through red tape to provide fire departments with funding and up-to-date equipment and training. He talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about his work.
WHAT'S that they say about the truth being stranger than fiction? Doesn't really apply in the case of the new "novel" by Ann Leary, the wife of the ultra-popular Irish American comedian Denis Leary, star of the hit FX show Rescue Me.
Mrs. Leary has just written a book called Out-Takes From a Marriage, and the British press are having a grand time deciphering its contents - namely, one of the female characters named Susanna described as an actress who likes to grab attention by wearing revealing dresses, dating billionaires and flirting with co-stars.