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Friday, September 13, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Tom Bosley
Tom Bosley is filled with Broadway dates ( The Education
stage presents; indeed, he was of HYMAN KAPLAN, Catch Me
mine for my 11th birthday.
If You Can) and television,
Much-older cousin Gloria numbering about 500 prod-
plucked me out of the hot uctions among his credits.
streets of Logan, Pa. one sum-
But the happiest days on tele-
mer day for a trip to New York vision have to be those Bosley
to see Bosley in Fiorello!, the spent on Happy Days, the long-
Pulitzer Prize-winning musical running (1974-1984) show that
about New York's legendary initially used the 1950s as a
mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. It backdrop and unleashed the
was not my first show, but it "Fonz" (played by Henry Wink-
was the first time I had seen a ler) on the viewing public.
play on Broadway, and from the
As Howard Cunningham, also
tenth row of the Broadhurst known as "Mr. C," the harried
Theatre, Bosley loomed larger papa whose Milwaukee home
than life. Had anyone told me seemed more a teen hang-out
that the portly performer was a than did the local pop shop, Bos-
king, I would have been the first ley was a calming force, the
to throw flowers in his path.
balm for his kids' hurts. He was
"You were 11 years old when the show's Clearasil when the
you first saw me perform?" acne got out of hand.
Bosly asks, his eyes mocking a
In reality, Bosley never
sense of hurt that comes when
years fly by all too quickly. He likened himself to "Mr. C,"
that the character re-
turns to a companion. "This claiming
sembled
more
own brother.
guy," he says, pointing at me, When it comes his
to coping with
"is making me feel so old."
Old? Never. Bosley, who was problems thrown his way by
31 at the time he first portrayed daughter Amy, now 18, Bosley
New York's "Little Flower," was is not programmed with quips
his television character.
back at it again this summer, like
taking Fiorello! to the stage of "It's all ad-lib in real life," he
the Valley Forge Music Fair says.
"Who's the boss in my fam-
southeastern Pennsylvania.
Bosley smiles. "My wife
The intervening years have ily?"
been very, very good to Bosley, lets me think I am."
But in reality ... "Unlike me,
a Chicago native whose optimis-
tic view of life is tempered only my wife" — Bosley's first wife
by some inexplicable love for his died of cancer five years ago —
hometown Cubs. Since 1959, "has this marvelous ability to
seven or eight things at
when director George Abbott handle
once. I've only been able to take
chose the unheralded Bosley to one
step at a time."
portray LaGuardia, there have
One giant step. At 57, Tom
been appearances in many films
(Love With a Proper Stranger, Bosley commands attention in a
Divorce American Style), other business that measures banka-
bility as a measure of respect.