BOUND TO BROADWAY, DANZA HAS SEPARATION ANXIETY.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith ``I'm going a little bit nuts,'' says Tony Danza Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza[1] April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor best known for starring in two popular TV series, Taxi and Who's the Boss? . ``I haven't seen my kids since April 8 - when they came here to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for my opening in `The Iceman Iceman Body of a man found sealed in a glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps in 1991 and dated to 3300 BC. It has revealed significant details of everyday life during the Neolithic Period. Cometh' - and I miss them so much, the only time I'm happy is when I'm on stage.'' The separation will end on June 29, when Tony jets to L.A. to join his wife and two daughters for the Independence Day holiday - and then, it'll be back to Manhattan for the closing week of the limited run of ``Iceman'' on Broadway. ``I promised the girls we'd be together for the Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. , and you don't break a promise,'' says Danza. He's gotten such deep satisfaction out of doing the four-hour, 20-minute Eugene O'Neill drama that he says, ``I'd like to find a Broadway play I could do for one, two years, and move the family out here with me.'' As it stands, Danza doesn't know what he'll be doing next - with the exception of some gigs with his hit song-and-dance stage show (he plays Long Island's Westbury Music Fair Aug. 19, the Atlantic City Sands Aug. 20-22, and the Las Vegas Desert Inn over Labor Day.) It sounds like he could end up on stage at the Sept. 12 Emmys - judging from industry talk about his four-part ``The Practice'' guesting that is rerunning this month. But he doesn't even want to go into that subject. ``I've been disappointed too many times,'' says Tony. Filling a void LeVar Burton, who hopes to return to series television with the show he's developed for Paramount, feels the flak the networks are getting because of their white-bread programming can only help his chances. ``As I look at the landscape of TV for the fall season, it seems absolutely and totally devoid of color,'' he says. He intends to pitch his ``John Smith'' drama to the networks as a midseason replacement that he would headline and exec-produce. He describes ``John Smith'' as being ``about an amnesiac searching the country trying to find clues to his identity.'' He notes that he would also helm at least a segment a month. The former ``Star Trek: The Next Generation'' actor-cum-director has the Disney Channel's ``Smart House'' with Katey Sagal, Kevin Kilner and Ryan Merriman premiering on June 26. Of the comedy, about a computer-run house that goes amok Amok (ā`mŏk), in the Bible, post-Exilic Jewish family. , he says, ``It was an enormously complicated picture to prep, schedule and shoot, and it was brutally quick. We only had 28 days for production. The challenge was formidable.'' `Powers' that be Michael York is taking a print of ``Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged shag 1 n. 1. A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair. 2. a. A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth. b. Cloth having such a nap. 3. A rug with a thick rough pile. Me'' to the Moscow Film Festival next month. The veteran star, who portrays Austin's boss in both Powers pics, adds with a pseudo-Russian accent, ``The organizers reminded me, `Austin Powers was big hit here last time.' '' York's also having his recently completed adaptation of Henry James' ``The Ghostly Rental'' screened at the fest, plus his upcoming independent ``The Merchant of Venus Merchant of Venus is a board game, published in 1988 by Avalon Hill, set in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilisation. Players move around the board as traders discovering long forgotten pockets of civilisation and buying and selling .'' The latter flick has him playing ``a Russian who works in America making marital aids. York would be happy to see ``Austin Powers'' turn into a full-fledged franchise and says, ``There's been talk ... but it's too soon to tell.'' No time for a dip Things got a little hairy during shooting of Jean-Claude Van Damme's upcoming ``Universal Soldiers II,'' reveals TV fitness diva Kiana Tom, who plays Van Damme's femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. sidekick in the film. ``We had a fight scene on a boat going 40 miles an hour through the swamps of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. while the bad guys were attacking us,'' recalls the creator, producer and host of ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2's ``Kiana's Flex Appeal.'' Tom says she ``had to just totally trust the guys driving the boat, because if they'd slammed on the brakes, we would have just been dumped in the swamp - and you know who would have been saved first!'' She adds, ``It was freezing and pouring rain, and Jean-Claude would say, `Don't fall in ... there's alligators.' I thought he was joking till I talked to some of the locals. It was my first film, and I didn't want them to think I was a wimp, but then I'd go back to my trailer and have a nervous breakdown nervous breakdown n. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression. nervous breakdown .'' With reports by Stephanie DuBois. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) DANZA (2) BURTON (3) YORK (4) VAN DAMME |
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