. Go wish Filthy the best.
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Thank You Rusty. You are always welcome at Filthy's
Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 04, 2005 03:22 PM (5ceWd)
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Oh, brother, does he ever have a blog!
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 04, 2005 03:44 PM (rUyw4)
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I know. I wish someone had warned me before I went over there. ;-)
Posted by: Oyster at October 04, 2005 04:11 PM (fl6E1)
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I may never recover from clicking the link. Who is paying for my therapy? Welcome back, Filthy.
Posted by: RomeoDelta at October 04, 2005 06:30 PM (Srmrz)
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I thought you hated Scott Baio for giving you pinkeye?
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at October 04, 2005 08:15 PM (g8BSG)
Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 05:29 AM (ywZa8)
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Tried Filthy's Blog. All I get is E-mail a friend screen. Perhaps I'm too stupid to use what will be a intellectural blog held in high esteem by the rag heads.
Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 05:36 AM (ywZa8)
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Hmmmmm. Seems to work fine to FIlthy
Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 05, 2005 10:47 AM (5ceWd)
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Whats become for scott baio in the last few years?
Posted by: sandpiper at October 06, 2005 08:57 PM (1mdPR)
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Just visit The Scott Baio Thread in the Jawa Archives (dated April 5, 2005). Some of the answers to your question lies there.
Posted by: the arcolytes at October 26, 2005 12:23 AM (VPcHD)
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Here's some unique trivia regarding Mr. Scott Baio:
During his early years as a child actor, Scott garnered 2 Emmy nominations for his excellent performances in the After School dramatic specials "Stoned" (1980-1981) and "All The Kids Do It" (1984-1985).
He also won 2 Young Artists Awards during the Third Annual Youth In Film Awards (1980-1981) as Best Young Actor in a Television Special for the aforementioned "Stoned" and Best Young Comedian in Television or Motion Pictures for the series "Happy Days".
In more recent years, Mr. Baio has earned 3 Best Actor prizes for his leading role as Dominic Pyzola in "The Bread, My Sweet" (a.k.a. "A Wedding For Bella") at the Atlantic City Film Festival, the Kansas City Halfway To Hollywood Film Festival and the San Diego Film Festival.
His glowing reviews have been posted at the Scott Baio Thread in the JAWA Report Archives, dated April 5, 2005.
Posted by: the arcolytes at October 26, 2005 08:32 AM (5bzzO)
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HAPPY DAYS' SCOTT BAIO IS A REAL LIFE ROMEO
by Todd Gold
(US Weekly: June 12, 2000)
If you've been wondering what Scott Baio has been doing since 'Charles in Charge' went off the air in 1990, the answer is, in some ways, just what you'd expect: acting occasionally in movies and on TV and directing numerous sitcom episodes. But what you may find surprising is that, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, the kid from 'Happy Days' is forging a career as a Hollywood Don Juan. To the list that includes Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Costner and Johnny Depp, now add Baio, the former 'Joanie Loves Chachi' star who admits he's "not the best-looking guy in the world" but whose resume of beautiful and famous girlfriends is more than a little impressive.
"It's very simple," says Baio, who stars with Matthew Modine and Ben Gazzara in the upcoming movie VERY MEAN MEN. "I'm on TV, and television has lots of power. Plus, my attitude has always been good."
Who has loved Chachi? Everybody, it seems. Back in the Fonzie era, he and co-star Erin Moran made each others' days happy. "That was a hundred years ago," says Baio, who subsequently had a two-year relationship with 'Spin City' star Heather Locklear in the early 1980s. "She's a lovely person, a great human being," he says. "I just screwed it up. I became a jerk."
But not a lonely jerk. In 1989 he hooked up with Pamela Anderson who'd just arrived from her native Canada for her first 'Playboy' layout. "She's no picnic," he says. "In my opinion, she's difficult to deal with." They broke up. But he rebounded with blond siren Nicolette Sheridan. "She's beautiful, smart, funny and tough, tough, tough," he says. "She's a fun human being, but too much work."
Then there was Denise Richards, the star of the recent James Bond movie 'The World Is Not Enough'. "I met her at a party about three or four years ago," he says. "She's stunning and nice but too goal-oriented for me." And Beverly D'Angelo? "The most fun person ever," he says. "She can have a good time in a sewer. But I think she was a tiny bit too old in terms of what I needed."
To satisfy those needs, Baio started making the Playboy Mansion his home away from home in 1984. "It's like going into a candy store and all your favorite candy is there," he says. "But you have to figure out how to get it." Baio admits he isn't always successful. "I've been turned down many times," he says. "But I lost my ego 15 years ago. This business beats it out of you."
His advice to would-be Romeos: Attitude is everything. "If you have an attitude like you don't care and you have something to back that up, like money or fame, it's a beautiful thing." For the past six months, Baio has lived with "a wonderful girl from Sweden" who "had no idea who I was when I met her," last July at the Playboy Mansion. Although she isn't a Playmate, she is a friend of Hugh Hefner's secretary. And she is a knockout. "People should know I'm so f---ing lucky," he says. "I'm so lucky you can't imagine."
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 09, 2005 10:54 PM (K7pYS)
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We shall return with more news and articles on Mr. Scott Baio within the forthcoming weeks. Meanwhile, feel free to visit The Scott Baio Thread dated April 5, 2005 for his glowing movie reviews.
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 11, 2005 11:07 PM (q0VNk)
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KEN EISNER'S REVIEW OF "VERY MEAN MEN" IN VARIETY (June 19, 2000)
"The Minettis are led by mellow Gino (Ben Gazzara), whose ruthlessness has softened somewhat with age. He's inclined to set things right when Big Paddy Mulroney (Charles Durning) complains that Gino's boys are muscling in on his side of the San Fernando Valley. Trouble is, GINO'S SON, PAULIE - PLAYED IN A CAREER-REVIVING PERFORMANCE BY SCOTT BAIO (who is also an associate producer of this film), WITH HAIR DYED BLONDE AND SPORTING A WHITE GOATEE - is a hothead who hands the Irish clan some moolah but then stiffs Paddy's waitress daughter (Leigh-Allen Baker) when his crew has a lousy lunch at Mulroney's diner. Ethnic insults start flying, then bullets, and soon both groups are living for revenge."
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 15, 2005 09:48 PM (v5wVV)
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JEFFREY GURIAN'S INTERVIEW DURING 15 MINUTE MAGAZINE'S COVERAGE OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF "FACE TO FACE"
"I co-wrote it with my good buddy, Scott Baio, truly one of the nicest guys in show business. From the moment we met, he was real nice and down to earth.
FACE TO FACE was Scott's idea. I was brought in to write it with him. It's a nice story about Italian family values, which just happens to relate to every other ethnic group.
What appealed to me most, besides the storyline, was that it was an Italian story with no mention of 'The Mob' unless you count the scene where the grandmother and the wives hatch the plot in a scene right out of 'The Godfather'. (If 'The Godfather' had been made with elderly women!)
The film was a big hit. Sold out for all three shows. People laughed and cried, fortunately not at the same scenes, but all in the right places, and they raved when it was over. I got so excited. I took a picture of my name on the big screen."
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 20, 2005 10:59 PM (6xne3)
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"FACE TO FACE" (a.k.a. "ITALIAN TIES") received these prizes:
1. Audience Accolade for Best Comedy at the Marco Island Film Festival 2001.
2. Silver Screen Trophy at the Reno Film Festival 2001.
3. 10 Degrees Hotter, Best Feature Award at the Valley Film Festival 2002.
Positive reviews of said independent movie can be read at The Scott Baio Thread located in the JAWA Report Archives dated April 5, 2005.
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 20, 2005 11:19 PM (6xne3)
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BAIO SAVORS 'THE BREAD'S LEAD ROLE
by Ron Weiskind, Post-Gazette Movie Editor
(November 1, 2001)
THE BREAD, MY SWEET is a low-budget movie by a first-time director from Pittsburgh who shot most of it in a Strip District bakery owned by her husband. So how did the filmmaker, Melissa Martin, convince Scott Baio (TV's "Happy Days" and "Charles in Charge") to take the lead role?
"I've always wanted to learn to bake bread from scratch," Baio says on the phone from Palm Springs, California. "So I asked her if I could specifically learn how to bake bread, and she said,'Yeah'"
"I just thought, this will be really cool. There's something very earthy about doing all that. I'm not a spiritual guy, but I just thought it would be fun to just start kneading dough and throwing flour around and pounding it with a rolling pin. And now, I bake bread at home."
But he also sensed that Martin had cooked up something good with her screenplay. Pittsburgh finds out tomorrow when THE BREAD, MY SWEET opens the Three Rivers Film Festival. The movie screens at 7 p.m. at the Regent Square Theater.
The script came to Baio through his agent, who told the actor he probably wouldn't want to do it.
"What really got me into this was Melissa," Baio says. "I called her on the phone and started talking to her. I just immediately liked her. I thought, well, this will be kind of fun. She told me what she wanted to do and how raw she wanted to make it."
Baio plays a corporate shark who discovers a different kind of world when he meets an immigrant couple and finds himself moved to fulfill their last wish, even at the cost of his own success. Kristen Minter of "ER" also stars, along with Rosemary Prinz, John Seitz and numerous Pittsburgh actors.
He calls his character a simple guy who "realizes he doesn't want to be sucked into that corporate world....He just wants to bake. There's something really kind of sweet about that."
"I think he's good at two things. He's good at baking and he's good at firing people, which is what his job in the corporate world is."
Baio calls THE BREAD, MY SWEET, filmed in the summer of 2000, one of the best working experiences he's had.
"We instantaneously hit it off with everybody," he says. "It was like play. I mean that sincerely. This was fun."
"Walking around Pittsburgh was wonderful. The people were nice. I'm an Italian, East Coast guy, so I immediately bonded with a lot of Italian people down there in the Strip."
Baio's been busy in other films as well. He's in Palm Springs for the screening of his movie FACE TO FACE at the Festival of Festivals. He stars in and co-wrote the movie, which is about a group of cousins who feel distant from their aging fathers and try to connect with the older men by forcing them to go on a long weekend getaway.
FACE TO FACE won the award for best comedy at Florida's Marco Island Film Festival. The award for best drama at that festival went to THE BREAD, MY SWEET.
Posted by: the arcolytes at November 27, 2005 10:50 PM (k7giX)
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