Tony Danza interview
Danza appears on WJXX News and, moments before going on air, is accidentally recorded talking not so tactfully about the news program he’s being interviewed on.
Oh you heard me huh?
Katherine Helmond interview
Helmond talks with The Associated Press and says that her role on Who’s the Boss? was originally supposed to be the sister of Angela, not the mother. They decided a mother-daughter duo would be better.
They read a lot of young ladies. But they felt it turned out to be kind of sour grapes. Each sister seemed a little envious of the other.
Judith Light interview
Light talks about coming from doing a daytime soap opera, One Life to Live to being the star of the popular Who’s the Boss? primetime series.
I really had to struggle and now, since I’ve made it, I can say it was worth it. I’m a better actress for it, but you pay a real price.
Alyssa Milano interview
Biography does a segment on Milano, where they show a clip of Milano talking on Good Morning America about her parents’ own sacrifice for her dreams of stardom.
They had their time and now it was my turn.
Ebony/Jet interview
Jackson talks to Daryl Dennard about his inspiration to create the Bad video. He also talks about his love for his fans, romantic life, going on tour and his profound interest in making the world a better place.
It is quite different than anything I have ever recorded before or ever written. It’s a bold statement to say but I mean it in all good will you know don’t take it too seriously. Yeah I’m saying, it’s like a way of saying “you’re cool, you’re alright, you’re tough” I’m not saying I’m criminally bad, of course that’s how people would take it. It’s a bold statement to make.
Judith Light interview
Light stars as Cathy post in Dangerous Affection, a made-for-television film for NBC. The film is about a pregnant woman whose 4-year-old son witnesses the murder of his father.
We’re calling it a drama-comedy-murder-mystery-thriller.
Molly Meldrum interview
Jackson is interviewed during his Bad tour with Molly Meldrum. This compilation shows his first interview with Meldrum where he reflects on the sacrifice he had to make to complete his education while on the road and trying to have a normal life. He also talks about his role on the making of The Wiz and Thriller with Quincy Jones and John Landis.
I like to sneak into theaters without being noticed sometime. Sometimes it’s really nothing you can do about it. That’s the price you have to pay. I have incredible disguises. I can fool my own mother. I enjoy doing it because I can see life the way it really is.
Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen interview
Rashad and her sister Allen along with their mother, talk about their mother’s influence on their lives and who she is as a person. Rashad comments:
There’s so much more to her than just my mother.
Bill Boggs interview
Rashad talks to Boggs about raising her children today as opposed to how her mother raised her.
I will not raise my daughter differently than how my mother raised me.
America’s Top 10 interview
Jackson is interviewed by Kasem, who asks him about his origins in Gary, Indiana, his obsession with the word “magic”, the film’s that inspire him to create his work. They also ask Jackson about alternative career choices if he was not doing music.
When I see magic, I mean wonderment, that excitement, escapism, another world. There are other people that do that sort of thing like Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney. For the spectator it’s exciting, it’s entertaining, it’s joy, it’s love. I like to create magic, myself, I love magic.
Blank on Blank interview
Kings tells his story to Joe Smith. The interview is animated for PBS’s Blank on Blank. King:
This is kind of how blues began — out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don’t necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi, as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world … When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience. And I like to feel in most cases like I’m a big guy with long rubber arms that I can reach around my audience and swing and sway with them, move them with me.
Tony Danza interview
Danza talks about being more than just the star of Who’s the Boss? He gets to try his hand at directing, as well as acting to every aspect of the show.
That’s my responsibility because if the show ever gets canceled, they ain’t gonna remember Marty Cohan or Blake Hunter, they’ll remember Tony Danza got canceled—that’s why I’m involved.
Pollard boasted of working for Israeli Intelligence
Marshall, a friend of Pollard’s and co-graduate from Stanford, says that Pollard bragged about working for Israeli Intelligence, although his claims seemed contradictory. Pollard claimed frequently to be a colonel in the Israeli military and to have worked for Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency. However, while still in college, Pollard also said he was a captain in the Mossad.
That discrepancy indicated he wasn’t telling the truth all the time. [He] was unusually well-informed and quite articulate and made what might otherwise have been an outlandish series of claims quite convincing.
Marshall says he concluded at the time that Mr. Pollard might indeed have some connections with Israeli intelligence but that he probably had ”embroidered” his role. He also says Pollard was ”a committed Zionist, but fairly liberal” on certain questions of Middle East politics.
He described himself as part of an Israeli officers’ group that favored more open channels of communication with Egypt.
Tony Danza interview
Danza talks with The Los Angeles Times, about being sentenced to 250 hours of community service and three years probation for the assault of a New York City guard at a restaurant.
He’s suing me for $16 million.
Tony Danza interview
Danza talks about being cast and playing a character with his own first name, since he also played a guy named Tony on Taxi.
I think it’s a little special to be able to have your own name.
Tony Danza interview
Danza talks with The Associated Press about being highly affected by the passing of fellow Taxi co-star, Andy Kaufman, although at first he didn’t care for Kaufman.
He was so different in attitude But once we respected him, he let down that defense. Then we became close.
Diane Collins interview
Jackson is interviewed by Collins. He talks about fame and how he sees himself in the industry, particularly how iconic he is.
Its pretty easy for me because so many things I block out. I see myself like you, or like the people in this room. I’m human just like you are.
Beat It interview
Jackson is interviewed during the Making of Beat It the Music video. He discusses what inspired him to create the song, his inclusion of real gang members in the music video, who he considers his real personal friends. He also talks about how the gang world is nothing like what he is used to and how it scares him.
I get afraid of people. I don’t really know people sometimes. It’s a whole ‘nother life that I…I haven’t really experienced that. Like friendship is thing I’m just beginning to learn about. I was raised on the stage and that’s where I’m comfortable and everything else is like foreign to me. I’m just beginning to learn about people, friendship, things like that.
Unauthorized interview
Jackson does an interview and talks about his llama, Louie, in his mother’s home in Encino, California. He also talks about his inspiration for writing his songs, the spirituality that children, animals and God have given to his success and the time of the day that he chooses to create. There are a few moments where Jackson sings acapella in the spirit of the moment.
I’ve always said I don’t write my own songs, because I feel I’m just a source, I’m just a tunnel, tube through which they come. I feel somewhere in space they’ve all been written before. I mean Billie Jean and Beat It and all those songs have been up there somewhere they just came through to me. That’s how I really feel. So even though I did it, I just can’t always take credit.
Unauthorized Encino interview
Jackson does an interview with his sister Latoya Jackson in his mother’s home in Encino, California. They talk about what inspires them creatively, focusing on ultimate goals and Jackson’s pet peeve. He also talks about his love for east Indian features and the dark color of their skin.
I think with any type of creation you create what’s inside of you. Subconsciously what influences you. I’m a fantasy fanatic and anything that will take you off into another world escapism, that’s what I like. I’m not so crazy about the reality of everything I like a lot of fantasy and that’s what I try to create.