European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Bob Thomas the associated pre or e first worked As a Hairdresser in a new Jersey Beauty parlor. Ten years ago he was second banana in a to sitcom. Today Danny Devito is the director and co Star of a $50 million movie. All this from a Bald 5-footer who seems the least _ Likely Power person in the film business. But after directing Only three movies Devito can Call his shots at any studio As director As Well As actor. How did it happen it helps that he has appeared in hit movies As the grasping Fortune Hunter in of Mancing the Stone As Arnold Schwarzenegger s twin brother in twins As the insidious Penguin in Batman returns. A As director his movies have included the twisted comedy melodramas throw Momma from the train and the War of the roses. His latest is Hoffa a big budget biography filled with Strong drama and vast crowd scenes. Quot my main Man Dan Quot is what Jack Nicholson who stars in Hoffa Calls Devito. Their Friendship goes Back to 1975 and one flew Over the cuckoos nest they also appeared together in going South which Nicholson directed and terms of endearment during filming of Hoffa Nicholson said Quot Danny never got tired or flagged in his enthusiasm. I told him a in a Gonna ask Rhea Perlman his wife if you got tired when you sleep at night. He s like some kind of Ball of  / the Public a image of Devito 48, was established during his five year run As Louis Dipalma the blustery malevolent dispatcher in television s comedy be ties taxi that Persona was reinforced by his roles in jewel of the Nile Wise Guys ruthless people tin men and other  different View of Devito himself is offered by Joe Roth who hired him for Hoffa while heading 20th Century Fox production Roth has since moved i to Disney Quot he a a very warm dedicated Guy Able to go through every emotion to get the Job done. He a completely Loyal arid dedicated yes he can explode on occasion but Only when someone on the picture has fouled up badly. Its Only about trying to make a better film must say that during the. Three years we were associated on Hoffa that happened Only a couple of times and then after great provocation Quot Danny a future in the business anything he wants to make it. I Hope he does no to abandon comedy. But he certainly has proven mat he can handle _  _ Mike Medavoy now production head of Tri Star pictures hired Devito to direct and Star in throw Momma from the train at Orion pictures. Quot i had seen some of Danny a direction of Short films and television and i just had an instinct that he could handle the picture. He has a great sense of humor and humanity a really Good person a Meda Voy said. _ j Medavoy made a contract for Devito a company to develop films for Tri Star. Devito a achievements in the movie business certainly could not have been predicted during his growing years in the summer resort of Asbury Park 20th Century fax Danny Devito co stars top and directs above Hoffa a drama about sex teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. , after graduating from Catholic schools he Wijt to work in his Sisters Beauty parlor. Quot my sister gave me All of her customers and she was Lay. Ing Back a he recalled in a inter View. Quot she was like the mistress of the Salon and 1 was doing a lot of the. Shampoos and sets and color and permanent Waves. I was a Utility Guy a the Pete Rose of the coif. % Quot i got pretty Good at it and i enjoyed it. Key favorite Day was new years eve. We worked from morning until almost Midnight. We had women in. The Salon getting their hair done their husbands waiting for them in their cars to go to some party. Some of them had to come in and celebrate new years in a Beauty Salon _ Quot big tips that Day. Id do 30-35 Heads starting in the morning and working straight through. Id get a couple Bucks sometimes More. In the evening with half a bag on they a give me $101 of course in the evening id be the same Way. Some of those hair. Dos a he laughs loud _ / _ _ _. Devito a sister convinced him that he should Branch out into makeup. The Only place he could find to learn the Craft was the american Academy of dramatic arts across the River in new York. A Quot i had to enrol As an actor in order to get the 7 makeup course a he says. Quot trouble is they Only taught theatrical makeup so i would have had All the people in the Beauty parlor looking like they were appearing in opera. Quot i never saw Ai play. But when i took the acting course i got hooked. A couple of teachers really encouraged me. I started Reading plays and going to them. Before you Knott i was kissing my sister a  _ he admits to harbouring secret desires to be an actor Early on Quot in a a big movie fan. Sometimes id go two three times a week. I used to think 1 can do that i did no to admit it because my friends would think i was crazy. I did no to look like Cary Grant. They a say a you re going to be a movie Star a a he began appearing off Broadway and in summer Stock where he became friends with actor Michael Douglas. After Devito played Martini in the new York production of one flew Oyer the cuckoos nest Douglas who was co producer of the movie version chose him to repeat his role. A that brought me out to California which is where i wanted to come a says Devito Quot i wanted to be a movie actor. I thought of myself As doing de. Ward g. Robinson parts or Peter Lorre. Weird sinister characters. It did t work out that  taxi which ran for five years established Devito in the comedic Mode. He remembers finding the Pilot script extremely funny and original but when he appeared to audition before the producers he threw Down the script and demanded Quot who wrote this Bleep a a there was a beat when nobody said anything Quot he says. A then they laughed like crazy and started rolling on the floor i got the  Devito met Rhea Perlman who was an Inch Tat Ler in new York in 1970. They lived together until marry ing in 1981. They now have three children Lucie Chet 9, Grade 7, and Jake 5, with Perlman working in cheers and Devito Busy with his own projects can they maintain a private life Quot no i Don t think you can even think about that a he replies. Quot we spend As much time As possible with the kids who Are now the focus of the relationship. Thais our biggest dilemma dying to keep every weekend free for them and trying to get Home from work in time to put them to bed. We be been doing  cafes Anayi Hoffa will open on Tea circuit in late february or Early March. 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