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Actor Danny Aiello, The Godfather, and Madonna

By FAITH MIDDLETON, LORI MACK & JONATHAN MCNICOL In his new memoir, stage and screen actor Danny Aiello reveals that he was so poor growing up in New York that he worked as a numbers runner and burglar, specializing in robbing cigarette machines. He was also a street fighter, and bouncer, the type of late-night […]

DMC Saves the World

By: Savas Abadsidis “I’m the king of rock, there is none higher Sucker MC’s should call me sire… DMC stands for devestating mic control You can’t touch me with a ten foot pole… My name is Darryl, you can call him D You can call me Darryl Mack, or you can call him DMC People always […]

Danny Aiello: From Club Bouncer To The Oscars

Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan welcomed longtime friend and Oscar-nominated actor Danny Aiello to the studio to talk about his new memoir, I Only Know Who I am When I am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, On the Stage, and in the Movies. Danny was nominated for Best Actor in a […]

Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels is doing something “way way cooler”

By Eric Renner Brown – All too often, the cycle in which washed-up celebrities cash in with pulpy memoirs and as guests on reality TV series repeats itself. But hip-hop legend Darryl McDaniels, a founder of Run-D.M.C., is doing something way, way cooler. McDaniels has loved comics since he read them as a kid in […]

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Explains Why He Got Into The Comic Book Business

By Andrew Steinbeiser Before one of the world’s most iconic hip-hop artists even knew how to throw down a beat, he was something else entirely: A comic book geek. Speaking with Bloomberg TV, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC explained how comic book superheroes were the first passion in his life. A self-described “geeky, nerdy kid,” […]

Huffington Post: Danny Aiello Took Me Off the Hook

Written By: Robbie Vorhaus In 1979, I worked for the producer of a short-lived Broadway play, Knockout, starring Danny Aiello and David Patrick Kelly (presently Da, in Once the Musical). For several months, we became friendly, hanging out together at the producer’s office on Park Avenue. Knockout opened and closed within months, and everyone involved in […]

‘Trash talk’ between Spike Lee and Danny Aiello

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – A chance encounter between two old friends can lead to a lot of ribbing which is exactly what happened between Spike Lee and Danny Aiello. The legendary movie director and the legendary actor ran into each other outside the FOX 5 studios on Monday morning. Lee was leaving the building following […]

CBS News Book excerpt: Danny Aiello’s memoir

Actor Danny Aiello (“Moonstruck,” “Do the Right Thing,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Once Upon a Time in America”) recalls a life in and out of character in his new book, “I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Somebody Else.” Text copyright © 2014 by Danny Aiello. Published by Gallery Books, an imprint […]