Its genuinely heartwarming to see Danny Devito remember his early days of acting and getting misty eyed reminiscing about growing up in an Italian home.
Danny DeVito is so underrated. From Cuckoo's Nest to Taxi to Wiseguys to Twins to War of the Roses to Get Shorty to LA Confidential to even a brief cameo in Goldmember or Friends, he's always a welcome presence. I don't even like Batman Returns honestly but he's by far the best thing in it. He just elevates material.
For all his humor, the man is a GIANT (obviously figuratively), just a brilliant actor. I'll never forget the first time I saw him in a serious role, in Hoffa. You'll never think of him the same after that. Just an astonishing actor.
@@Kanjo_Bazooie Yes, and although that may not have been his directorial debut, I think it was Hoffa that established him as a really great director in addition to being a really great actor. That was really a marvelous film, with Jack Nicholson also giving one of his best performances. I recall just the opening scene - left a lasting impression. Now I want to go and watch it again. The guy is so much more than a great comedic actor. I guess he'd fall into that "national treasure" category. Oh - I see the next commenter below said exactly that. I'll have to go and give that comment a thumbs up.
Italian guy 101 - absolutely includes dunking the bread in the sauce/gravy. And no matter where mom is in the house, she can hear the lid come off of the sauce pot, and you'll hear "get out of the sauce!" get screamed to you from nowhere.
Remember seeing Danny DeVito and Brook Adam's I Car Wash. IDMB says their scenes were deleted but I clearly remember them running the food stand in the movie when I saw it in 76.
My mom would get tired of us dipping and would ladle out some in a bowl and give us a piece of bread and sit us at the table. Thanks for bringing back that memory!
In 1966, Danny graduated from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His graduating class included Jaclyn Smith ("Charlie's Angels") and Kathryn Leigh Scott ("Dark Shadows").
I've never been to a celebrity's funeral but I would honestly like to pay my respects, whenever Mr. DeVito leaves our mortal plane. I took French, and not Italian, but I was delighted that "Cul de Pain" made sense. Hooray for cognates!
It's funny how similar Italian and Spanish are. In Spanish it'd be something like "coolo de pan". Danny DeVito was such a big part of my childhood. Idk if I discovered him first in Twins or Romancing the Stone but I could watch him do his taxes and be entertained.
Larry David just recently said that Constanza was based on a friend of Jerry’s with the last name of costanza..the real life costanza sued Larry David for that
