Sunday, November 14, 2010
Tony Danza
- Danza and his wife, Tracy, announced that they are separating after 20 years of marriage. (September 28, 2006)
- Said he was far from impressed with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' baby news - because they having a child out of wedlock. (October 2005)
- Escaped serious injury on 9 May 2005 when the mini stock-car he was driving flipped over and he wasn't wearing a helmet.
- After Tony recovered from his '93 skiing accident, he returned to the tree he crashed into and carved into it T.D. was here - hard.
- Host 81st annual Miss America pageant. (2001)
Danza was born as Anthony Salvatore Iadanza in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anne Cammisa (1925–1993) and Matty Iadanza (1920–1983), both of whom died from cancer.
He has a younger brother, Matty Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner. Actor, director, producer. Born Anthony Iadanza on April 21, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, as one of five siblings. Danza's father, Matty, was a sanitation worker. His mother, Anne, was an Italian immigrant who held a job as a bookkeeper. When Danza was 14, he and his family moved out of Brooklyn, instead relocating to the Long Island community of Malverne. Danza flourished academically and athletically on Long Island and, upon his 1969 graduation from high school, he attended the University of Dubuque on a wrestling scholarship.Danza earned a bachelor's degree in history education upon his graduation from Dubuque in 1973. But he didn't originally picture himself as an educator; instead Danza pinned his hopes on a career as a professional boxer.
Changing his name to "Dangerous" Tony Danza, he entered the New York Golden Gloves competition in 1975, where he made the lightweight semi-finals. Returning the next year, he advanced to the finals as a middleweight, but lost a key fight by a narrow decision, which cost him the title. After turning professional in August of 1976, Danza compiled a 12-3 record in the ring. Fighting as a middleweight, Danza was a crowd favorite for his slugging style.
After the success of Taxi Danza landed another lucrative sitcom in 1984, this time as widowed housekeeper Tony Micelli on Who's the Boss?. The show was a ratings smash, lasting for eight seasons and making him a solid television star. After Who's the Boss? ended in 1994, Danza returned to TV the next year with the sitcom Hudson Street, but the venture struggled in the ratings. It was canceled after only one season. His next sitcom, The Tony Danza Show (1997) met a similar fate.
Danza is better known for his roles in Taxi (1978–1983), in which he played cab driver and part-time boxer, "Tony Banta". On Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Danza portrayed a retired baseball player working as a housekeeper and single father, "Tony Micelli."Danza also starred in the short-lived sitcoms Hudson Street (1995) and The Tony Danza Show (1997), not to be confused with his talk show of the same name. He had a role in the TV drama Family Law from 2000 until 2002. He took his first role, a nonspeaking part as a poker player in National Lampoon's Animal House.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest-starring 1998 role in the TV series The Practice. His movie debut was in the comedy The Hollywood Knights (1980), which was followed by Going Ape! (1981). He received critical acclaim for his performance in the 1999 Broadway revival of the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh. In 2002, Danza released his debut album The House I Live In as a 1950s-style crooner.[5]
Danza hosted his own TV talk show, The Tony Danza Show, a nationally syndicated program produced each weekday morning in his hometown of New York (where it aired live). On May 9, 2005, during a go-kart race with NASCAR star Rusty Wallace, who was a guest on the show, Danza's kart flipped after Wallace accidentally bumped him. Neither he nor Wallace was wearing a helmet at the time. Danza returned to go-kart racing on October 20, 2005, to challenge IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, but his brakes malfunctioned and he skidded into a wall, unharmed. His daytime talk show ended in May 2006; the last live episode aired on May 26, 2006.[citation needed]
He starred on Broadway as "Max Bialystock" in The Producers, from December 19, 2006, to March 11, 2007[6] and reprised his role at the Paris Las Vegas from August 13, 2007,[7] to February 9, 2008.[8]
In May 2008 Danza released, Don't Fill Up On the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook,[9] a cookbook written by him and his son Marc, a chef.
In September 2008, it was reported that Danza would host the 4th season of The Contender, which was filmed in Singapore and began airing in December 2008 on the Versus TV sports channel.[10] In August 2009, it was reported that Danza would appear in a new A&E reality show Teach: Tony Danza, in which he would co-instruct a 10th Grade English class atNortheast High School in Philadelphia. The series was filmed during the 2009-2010 school year and premiered on October 1, 2010.
Actress. Born Judith Ellen Licht on February 9, 1949, in Trenton, New Jersey. A versatile performer, Judith Light has successfully tackled daytime dramas, prime time sitcoms, and the New York stage. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, she made her Broadway debut in a 1975 revival of Henrik Ibsen’s drama, A Doll’s House.
Two years later, Judith Light was on her way to becoming a darling of daytime television as Karen Wolek on One Life to Live. From 1977 to 1982, she played a reformed prostitute, a performance that netted her two Daytime Emmy Awards. Light moved on to guest spots on several primetime series, such as St. Elsewhere and Family Ties before landing a starring role on Who’s the Boss.
On the popular sitcom, which debuted in 1984, Judith Light played Angela Bower, a powerful advertising executive and divorced mother of one, who hired former baseball player Tony Micelli (played by Tony Danza) to be her live-in housekeeper. Much of the comedy came from their domestic situation and clashing backgrounds. Tony’s daughter Samantha (Alyssa Milano), Angela’s son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro), and Angela’s mother Mona (Katherine Helmond) completed the cast. Audiences really liked Light’s portrayal of Angela, an uptight, but caring career woman, and enjoyed the romantic tension between her character and Tony’s. The lasted for eight seasons, finishing its run in 1992.
After the show ended, Judith Light starred in several television and made a few attempts to return to series television, including the short-lived 1993 show Phenom and 1998’s The Simple Life. She returned to the stage in 1999 in the off-Broadway production of Wit. She earned strong reviews for her portrayal of university professor battling ovarian cancer and reprised the role for the national tour.
Judith Light didn’t stay away from television for too long, however. In 2002, she took on a recurring role on the hit series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, playing a sharp, tough judge. Light returned to her comedic roots in 2006 with the dramatic comedy Ugly Betty starring America Ferrera. On the series, she portrays Claire Meade, the much beleaguered, highly alcoholic wife of a publishing titan.
Since 1985, Judith Light has been married to fellow actor Robert Desiderio; the couple met on the set of One Life to Live. In addition to acting, she is a strong supporter of a number of AIDS-related charities
Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond was born in Galveston, Texas and raised by her mother, Thelma Malone, and her grandmother; both were Roman Catholics. Helmond attended a Catholic primary school[3] and appeared in numerous school plays. After her stage debut in As You Like It she worked in New York during the 1950s/60s. She operated a summer theatre in the Catskills for three seasons and also taught acting in university theatre programs. She made her TV debut in 1962 but had to wait another 10 years until her breakthrough came in the 1970s. At that time she was busy on TV as well as on stage and earned a Tony nomination for her performance on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown (1973).[citation needed]
Helmond appeared in Alfred Hitchcock in Family Plot (1976). Also on the big screen she appeared in Brazil (1985) as Jonathan Pryce's mother. In 1983 she studied at the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop and then directed four episodes of TV-series "Benson" as well as one of "Who's the Boss?" (1984). She also picked up Emmy nominations for her role as Mona Robinson, a liberated grandmother in Who's the Boss, and as Lois Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond. Helmond has continued working and was acclaimed for her performance onstage in The Vagina Monologues.
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Danny Pitarno
Pintauro first appeared on the television soap opera As the World Turns and in the movie Cujo. He first came to prominence on the television series Who's the Boss?.
In 1997, in an interview with the National Enquirer tabloid, Pintauro declared that he is gay.
Alyssa Milano
(born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. Her childhood role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? made her famous, and an eight-year stint as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed brought her a new round of fame.Milano has dyslexia.[19] In an interview in 2004, Milano explained how she deals with the disorder:"I've stumbled over words while reading from teleprompters. Sir John Gielgud, whom I worked with on The Canterville Ghost years ago, gave me great advice. When I asked how he memorized his monologues, he said, 'I write them down.' I use that method to this day. It not only familiarizes me with the words, it makes them my own."
Milano has eight tattoos on her body: one on each wrist and ankle, shoulder, neck, hip, and lower back. Milano is a vegetarian and appears in numerous PETA advertising campaigns for vegetarianism. Outside of acting, her hobbies include photography, humanitarian work, and spending time with her three dogs and eight horses. Milano has commented on her love for animals, and in a 2009 interview discussed one of her dogs, a German shepherd called Pinto, who had died at the age of 14; he had worked with the LAPD dogs and Milano had owned him for 10 years.
Milano dated actor Corey Haim from 1987 to 1990.She was engaged to Scott Wolf in 1993. She was married to singer–songwriter Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero in 1999; they were divorced later that year. She dated Charmed co-star Brian Krause for a while during the third and fourth season of the show. She briefly dated Justin Timberlake in 2002. After one year of dating, she and CAA agent David Bugliari were engaged December 18, 2008. Milano and Bugliari married on August 15, 2009 in New Jersey, at the home of Bugliari's family.
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