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Genaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr. (born July 29, 1942) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in the HBO series The Sopranos.
Sirico was born in New York City, New York. Before turning to acting, he was convicted of several crimes, and had been arrested 28 times. In 1967, he was sent to prison for robbing a Brooklyn after-hours club, but was released after serving thirteen months. In 1971, he pled guilty to felony weapons possession and was sentenced to an "indeterminate" prison term of up to four years, of which he ended up serving 20 months. He has said that during his imprisonment, he was visited by an acting troupe composed of ex-convicts, which inspired him to give acting a try. According to a court transcript, at the time of his sentencing, he also had pending charges for drug possession. He appeared in a 1989 documentary about life, The Big Bang, by James Toback, in which he discussed his earlier life.
Sirico has played gangsters in a number of films, including Goodfellas, Mob Queen, Mighty Aphrodite, Love and Money, Fingers, The One Man Jury, Defiance, The Last Fight, Innocent Blood, Bullets over Broadway, The Pick-up Artist, Gotti, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Cop Land, Turn of Faith, Hello Again, and Mickey Blue Eyes.
Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show (not to be confused with his 2004-2006 daytime variety talk show of the same name).
Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anne Cammisa (1925–1993) and Matty Iadanza (1920–1983) His mother was a bookkeeper and his father worked as a waste collector in Brooklyn. Danza's father was an American of Italian ancestry and Danza's mother was an immigrant from the town of Campobello di Mazara in the Sicilian province of Trapani. He has a younger brother, Matty Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner. When Danza was 14, he and his family relocated to Malverne, New York, on Long Island. Danza attended Malverne High School, graduating in 1969. In the first episode of his show Teach: Tony Danza, Danza describes himself as a "bad student" in high school. He earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1972 from the University of Dubuque, which he attended on a wrestling scholarship. In 1975, as a joke, Danza's friends entered him in the New York City Golden Gloves. After knocking out his first six opponents all in the first round, Danza was knocked out in the finals.
Sometimes I see ya passing by
Ooooo why
Sometimes I see ya going away
Ooooo please say
Sometimes I realize why luv is giving me mistakes
When you’ve got luv , you don’t really see their face
I’ve seen you in my dreams,
I’ve seen you far away
But there is nothing, I said nothing
Like that one single day
And once again, when I look in the mirror
I see you there, behind like you were even near her
Near the little shining star
That gives me hints of who you are
Sometimes I realize why luv is giving me mistakes
When you’ve got luv , you don’t really see their face
I’ve seen you in my dreams,
I’ve seen you far away
But there is nothing, I said nothing
Like that one single day
Oh ooooooooooo oh oh. Tell me that my soul is wrong
Tell me that I’m understood
By what I call … the only TRUTH !
Or when I’ve seen you once again
I undersatnd I truly do
What made you seem so damn ubset
It’s really true, it’s really true
Sometimes I realize why luv is giving me mistakes
When you’ve got luv , you don’t really see their face
I’ve seen you in my dreams,
I’ve seen you far away
But there is nothing, I said nothing
Like that one single day
That damn old day.. When I’ve seen ya.. I’ve seen ya..