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Joseph Bologna (born December 30, 1934) is an American actor. Bologna was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is of Italian descent and was raised Roman Catholic. The actor has a long history in film and television. His breakthrough film, Lovers and Other Strangers, written with his wife Renée Taylor, was based on the true-life circumstances of organizing a wedding on short notice with the involvement of his Italian extended family and Renee`s Jewish clan. Several relatives performed as extras in the final cut. A year later, in 1971, the couple again collaborated to write and perform in the movie Made for Each Other. Bologna stayed close with his old-neighborhood aunts and uncles after becoming successful. Two of them were slightly famous on their own: his Uncle Pat was "Blacky the Bootblack", whom Joseph Kennedy credited as his main influence when he sold all of his stock holdings in the summer of 1929 (the market crashed in October) and his aunt Pauline was one of the best-known chefs to the stars, working for Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and many other luminaries.
A decade later, Bologna`s aunt Pauline chastised him for starring in the nudity-filled Blame it on Rio co-starring Michael Caine. Bologna replied, "Blame it on me, it`s the last time I invite Aunt Pauline to a film premiere." Bologna`s other best-known film role is that of temperamental 1950s television star Stan "King" Kaiser in the 1982 comedy hit My Favorite Year, starring Peter O`Toole. He is married to the actress Renee Taylor, with whom he has a son, Gabriel Bologna. Taylor and Bologna have also co-starred on stage and on TV. Bologna played a love interest for his real-life wife in the "Maternal Affairs" episode of the CBS sitcom The Nanny, in which Taylor plays Sylvia, the already-married mother of Fran Drescher`s character. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bologna |
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Quotes You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can`t picture something different so they can only go by something that`s laid out for them. Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is. I think grown-ups don`t go to movies because they`re much more discerning. My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their `60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne. I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays. The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium. But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less. As we get older, we resist the new stuff, like I resisted a cell phone for years. Now it`s part of my home. My wife can`t live without a cell phone. Why can`t she move in with you? Is she against that? She`s not a Mormon or anything, is she? My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. So to me, Texas Hold `em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that`s going to work. I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I`ll go online and I`ll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don`t want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being. When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not. | ||
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