There is no next DeVito. They only made one.
"He's game for anything. When he wants to do something, he knows what he can do with it," said Fred Specktor, 90, the industry's oldest superagent, who has represented DeVito for much of the performer's career. They speak many times each week. The actor invariably signs off by saying,"Get me a freaking job," only deploying saltier language.
"Consider how many despicable characters he's performed yet how beloved he is," said"Sunny" co-creator and star Glenn Howerton. DeVito and Douglas were roommates on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1960s."We were certainly the Odd Couple. He was the messy one," said Douglas, who acted with him and Kathleen Turner in the hit movies"Romancing the Stone" and"The Jewel of the Nile." When DeVito directed Douglas in"The War of the Roses," his style was the opposite."As loose as he can be as an actor, that's how specific he can be as a director.
DeVito"totally transcends height," Specktor said. Yet it's also his calling card. DiCaprio can don a cap and shades, attempt to melt into a crowd. Not so DeVito."I'm pretty recognizable. It's hard to hide me," he said. That was Martini in the 1971 off-Broadway revival of"Cuckoo's Nest," which he appeared in for a couple of years. This ultimately led to the 1975 Milos Forman movie that earned the Oscars' Big Five , produced by Michael Douglas, starring Nicholson and featuring DeVito.
"We were marketing a strangely original anti-sitcom that makes 'Seinfeld' look like a Hallmark movie. Danny has sort of the dark, satirical, take-no-prisoners fearless humor that they do," said Landgraf, who suggested that a known actor, specifically DeVito, join the show that was at risk of cancellation.
The veteran actor's reasoning for doing the show:"I can't miss out on this because, for some reason, I just want to be there. I want to hang out with these guys. I want to have some fun - and, look, I kind of made the right choice." Time for a story."He's always got a story for something. I've heard these stories lots of times," Lucy said.
When he read"Pulp Fiction," DeVito said,"I knew immediately what he needed, where you have to be to work with Quentin Tarantino," and everything necessary to make the cult classic happen."It is Quentin's vision. You fight for everything that's in his head." DeVito doesn't look like a movie star. He doesn't act like one, either. His legendary holiday parties might feature fireworks, games, toys, ice cream carts and balloons, as though planned by a child with a bloated bank account. He's been to Coachella several times. He attended one of Phish's first farewell concerts in Coventry, Vt., with his children, noting,"I was the one who did mushrooms. They didn't.
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