Monday, April 11, 2005

The Tony Danza Report


Remember Tony Danza who starred in the 1980s sitcom "Who's the Boss?" Well, yesterday my good friend David was sauntering through Central Park when he thought he recognized a guy rollerblading through the park. It didn't take David long to figure out that the guy he saw was Tony Danza.

"He looked horrible," David said. "His skin looked like a burlap sack and he had on awful white nylon shorts and his hair looked really stringy."

Danza, who is 5'7" and was born Anthony Iadanza, is now 54 years old and unemployed.

The careers of most of his former "Who's the Boss?" co-stars have stalled as well. Alyssa Milano, currently on the TV show "Charmed", is the only one who has found some success since "Who's the Boss?" went off-air in 1992 after 193 episodes. (Alyssa is Tony's real-life niece.) Judith Light, who played Angela, is doing late-night infomercials for acne products. Danny Pintauro, who played Jonathan, came out of the closet in 1997 in the pages of "The National Enquirer" and is currenly doing a play at New Theater Restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas. (I'm not kidding.) It's just, you know, Off-Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway.

But anyhow, as David said, it sounds like maybe Tony Danza isn't so much the boss anymore. Could it be that "Who's the Boss?" was cursed?