Thursday, September 20, 2012

From Cleaning the House to Teaching School

Did anyone ever watch "Who's the Boss?" with Tony Danza (and for you really old people...remember him on "Taxi")?  Danza played Tony Micelli, a former baseball player, who along with his daughter Samantha moved in with Angela, Jonathan and her mother Mona to serve as their housekeeper.  Great TV show...they sure don't make 'em like that anymore.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfZVSgpclw
 

After "Who's the Boss?", Tony Danza dabbled in a few things and following an injury in a ski accident her decided to head to the classroom as an English teacher in Pennsylvania.  While I have often said teachers many times are the best actors (we have to control emotions, put on faces of happiness when things may be falling apart) but I was skeptical if an actor would be the best teacher...especially when I heard it was going to be taped for a reality show. (Reality shows...I love 'em (especially "The Amazing Race"...but these shows could be what is wrong with TV and some things in society today.).

Danza has now wrote a book about the experience and shared his thought on kids, education and society with Fox News.  Check out the link believe and tell us what you think about what the boxer, turned actor, turned talk show host, turned game show host, turned teacher has to say.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/09/20/qa-tony-danza-recounts-his-year-as-teacher-says-kids-victims-our-culture/?intcmp=features