Mike Barnes at the Hollywood
Reporter offers an obituary of writer/actor Joseph Bologna.
Joseph Bologna, an actor,
playwright and screenwriter who was so memorable as the egotistical King Kaiser
in the 1982 comedy classic My Favorite Year, has died. He was 82.
Bologna died Sunday morning
at City of Hope hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was diagnosed with pancreatic
cancer three years ago, said his wife of 52 years, actress and screenwriter
Renee Taylor.
Bologna received an Oscar
nomination for adapted screenplay, shared with his wife and David Zelag
Goodman, for his work on Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). The couple had
first written it for Broadway in a 1968 production directed by Charles Grodin.
They penned 22 plays in all,
including It Had to Be You, Bermuda Avenue Triangle and If You Ever Leave Me
I'm Going With You!
Bologna and Taylor penned and
starred in the semi-autobiographical Made for Each Other (1971), which Newsweek
called "the best love story & comedy of the year," and co-wrote
and co-directed Love Is All There Is (1996), which marked one of the first
feature appearances for Angelina Jolie.
You can read the rest of the obit
via the below link:
Note: Not mentioned in the
obit is Joseph Bologna’s outstanding role as Bill Bonanno, the son and heir of Salvatore Bonanno, the boss of the Bonanno Cosa Nostra organized crime family, in
the TV film adaptation of Gay Talese’s true crime book Honor Thy Father.
I'd like to watch Honor Thy Father, Made For Each Other and My Favorite Year again. Good films.
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