About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still
available.
As one of today's best-known character actors, Joe Pantoliano
boasts over 100 film, television, and stage credits. Joey Pants, as
he is affectionately known, tells his story of growing up
in a real-life "Sopranos" family. Tough, outspoken, but
with a charming side, too, Joey relates the fascinating story of one
street-smart kid's convoluted journey to Hollywood.
Everyone knows him as he psychopathic mobster "Ralph
Cifaretto" on the HBO hit show The Sopranos. But before
"Tony," "Carmela," "Silvio," and "Dr.
Melfi" took Sunday-night television by storm, Joe Pantoliano has
been revered and honoured for his unique and entertaining portrayals
– including killer pimp "Guido" in Risky Business,
bumbling criminal "Francis Fratelli" in The Goonies,
double-crossing bail bondsman "Eddie Moscone" in Midnight
Run, cynical US Marshall "Cosmo Renfro" in The
Fugitive, turncoat "Cypher" in The Matrix, and
shady sidekick "Teddy" in Memento. Now, the
street-smart kid who grew up in Frank Sinatra's hometown shares the
stage with the eccentric and colourful wise guys from his family and
neighbourhood.
Fade in on the projects of Hoboken, New Jersey, during the fifties
and sixties. That's little Joey, running numbers with his
chain-smoking mother, Mary, so they can keep a roof over their heads.
When he wasn't busy staying one step ahead of the bill collectors, he
was learning the ropes from "Cousin" Florie: his
"stepfather" and a wise guy whose connections to the
Genovese family couldn't keep him out of jail for drug trafficking.
Then there was Joey's real father, "Monk," a factory worker
with a weakness for gambling at the track who was later reborn as a
hearse chauffeur for the local funeral parlour.
With a winning blend of humour, charm, and pure showmanship, Joe
Pantoliano tells it like it was. From a connected Jersey street
kid to a successful Hollywood actor who would, ironically, re-create
his wise-guy boyhood in role after role, Who's Sorry Now is an
irresistibly entertaining treat for anyone interested in this
true-life "Soprano" and a real stand-up guy.
What people say:
"A rollicking good read from
this extraordinarily talented young man who sings all the notes from
basso profundo to soprano and leaves us laughing." —
Malachy McCourt,
the great Irish
actor
and writer
"Who's
Sorry Now
makes you wish he'd write as frank a book about Hollywood as he has
about Hoboken." —
Entertainment Weekly
"Pantoliano,
who has appeared in more than sixty movies, including Memento and The
Matrix, touchingly details his escape from a real world of crime."
— Daily News
"Joey Pants tells a colorful,
often funny tale that even comes with a happy ending." —
Associated Press
"Hugely entertaining."
— Booklist (starred review)
About the Author:
Joseph Peter "Joe"
Pantoliano is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, producer, and
mental health activist. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, he moved to New
York after high school where he attended HB Studio, and studied
extensively with Herbert Bergoff and eventually John Lehne, while
waiting tables. Meanwhile, he landed the plum role of Billy Bibbitt
in the travelling stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest. Four years later, he headed to Los Angeles. After cutting
his teeth on several television sitcoms and TV movies, he transformed
himself into a prominent and prolific character performer who went on
to appear in some of Hollywood's biggest films.