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his this life. with my guy can tell you that. on larry king now the legendary. dumbos warned he's got the big years he's he's an oddity illuminates the scene a phobia in each and every one of us you know it's like the fear of the other i want to really make an impression so i walk into the office i take a step in i go one thing i want to know before we start. who wrote and i think. we're you know we're a wealthy country we can take care of our people we don't have to charge people for for their education i mean if you can bail out the banks and general motors why can't you bill at the kids plus woman said her grandson is going to take my picture

. and. replace every picture in his mother's house with my face. it's all next on larry king now. today we welcome golden globe an emmy winning actor danny de vito and he shot to t.v. fame on taxi which aired from 1978 to 1983 and then went on to star in blockbuster films like terms of endearment romancing the stone the jewel of the nile his vast career also includes dramatic roles in l.a. confidential the rainmaker and a heist he's currently starring in the long running events comedy it's always sunny in philadelphia and you'll see danny next in tim burton's remake of the disney

classic dumbo he stars as the ringmaster max minutes he told me how this came about that he knows him and i him but we tim burton and i work together in batman returns and big fish and mars attacks and and i was doing a play in new york bet a year ago actually arthur miller play beautiful play. called the price. anyway in the middle of that i got a call from tim saying he was going to do tombo and. i said when because you know once you're in you're on in a play you know you've got the commitment you know it's it's a long time you know you've got to go all the way through with it and 1st does really heartbroken because we because he said well we're going to do it a certain date nice oh my god my run is like i think 3 weeks passed last that

and i was like just i was in new york and i was just you know kind of agonizing over it you know nice and he said well it's see what happens you know you know there's no i didn't want to leave the play i'd really didn't i was too precious wonderful experience and but i you know i just was on the edge and then finally you know as it is with movies you know how this is there's always some little thing that holds pushes to the movie and i got lucky larry i mean i just like on so you finish the priciest the play and went right to london tim and i got together we talked about it and you know we worked together several times ago said and so i was able to do it when you work with someone like tim burton is that his baby better you have in port au know we all every but the thing about him he's very inclusive very collaborative he's really

a gentle sweet person i mean everybody has a kind of like an image of him you know it kind of dark brooding guy who comes up with things like batman returns and edward scissorhands in this that you know but he's really light hearted and kind of like very friendly once you get to know him and the other thing about him is that you know with that you know history that you we work together there is a collaboration although it is his baby i will admit that it's all his you know his vision and his my memory. he of dumbo as a kid not love dumbo i think he was my favorite disney character i also remember that i cried a lot in that yappy yeah it is sad moment yes the thing about it is the theme the ringmaster yes on the ring mr domenici brothers circus very bright very big very energetic very up it's funny it's like all the good but there's that couper thing

that is the always had which was you know he's he's illuminating like the very same problems very like sensibilities sensitive moments that we have in regard to the other like dumbo's born he's got these big years he's he's an oddity illuminates the xena phobia in each and every one of us you know it's like the fear of the other the fear of the the the something that's not like us and then there's that one moment i know that this is the one that really cheered you up i'm sure is when the baby is separated from his mom you know it's like a real hard to find thing magine that somebody would take a baby and separated from their mother. unfortunately you know what we're experiencing now right now where the border. you know i'll just say that there are

so many things in the movie that resonate now obviously this is like taking those incredibly strong themes and handing over to a visual artist like him so he's going to take those embrace those things he's got all the great things in the forty's movie that was that disney put in but you know he's exploded them into like a 21st century and you know play who's the elephant ok the elephant played by this guy was a neighbor of mine even though we lived there was right near. store to me he said i discovered the elephant was living next door to me and brian that this man is like a elephant. that i was kidding ok so the elephant is c.g. you know so it's like a computer generated elephant so we worked with like was he there when you don't see the elephant now so you know it wasn't anything we're looking at

a dot you're looking at it when you see the elephant fly as in at the actors we're looking at like a laser beam like a laser pointer so we won't know why you're not seeing a film completed is the 1st time i've blown dumble well let's put it this way see because tim is who he is he draws everything everything is like like when we did batman returns he showed me with the penguin look like he showed me on his sketch pad you know so you get a feeling for it in dumbo very similar he showed me what they were showed all of us collin farrel and michael keaton and everybody what the characters looked like and how they related to how you related with your haven't eyes you get an idea of yeah we you and the taxi part where you want to act. who plays comedy or were you a comic who acts no i never i never did the stand up comic thing and

allman actor who does comedy because it's a question is it true you got the part in taxi told us by playing the guy at the yeah well there was ok this is 1978 and i had done a few little things and there was a casting director enjoy therm who would send me out on things i did policewoman with angie dickinson i did starsky and hutch i did you know i was doing little parts and stuff ok so. he said you've got to go in through this you know is a t.v. show going to be done taxi and it's all these famous guys jim brooks and ed weinberger stand daniels and dave davis and they come from m.t.m. and they did the mary tyler moore show and they did all that i know them for madam ice you know i'm like

a new york guy and so i look at the script and there it is this character louis de palma the straw boss in the cab and everybody wants to be a cab driver i mean something else judd wants to be the cab driver who is going to be in it anyway long story short i get the thing i loved it i thought it was like a terrific script they call it a pilot script it was like the 1st episode of many that we did in any way i wanted to really make an impression so i walk into the office jolie traduce is me there's jim brooks standing there's a chair right in the middle of the room you know that's the hot seat you're going to go sit there one of them's got their sleeves rolled up in the script in their hand and joel said does danny and the this is a huge is around and i take a step in i go one thing i want to know before we start who wrote and i

think. and i threw it on the table who came before so now larry walking in you know situation where you can't make a mistake so i got i said to her no matter what i said they thought it was they thought it was pretty funny you know if i said and. got it then right i got a good i got a good laugh at you yeah absolutely what made andy kaufman so special so different. and he was himself in the embraced himself he was a little kid who liked to play act who liked to do magic who liked to do shows who did his own stuff in his room like you saw in the movie all that stuff is true. but when i met indy i had seen him only a couple times on i saw him on saturday night live and i saw one time i saw exact

where he played the bongos and he became the kind of its terrible guy and. and cried and did all this kind of crazy stuff and he was the conceptual artist what and he would do is take over the room so if he walked in to here right now he probably would come in while we're talking and i'm being interviewed by you and he would come in and just stand in 2nd even if. it is coming in and stand here and you and i would continue and there's a guy standing here with his short sleeves and narrative the who are question what you know what you got right exactly tell me about it it's always sunny in philadelphia as well that was like going great yeah that was a good idea for me to do. the big thing is like i usually go in my gut i had seen the show saw 8 episodes they did 8 episodes and they

were on f.x. these guys are inventive they're funny they're energetic they're you know they've got all the qualities of insanity that you kind of need to catch on television and you know and they're and they seem like really nice people and i said if the character was organic to the script and you know didn't feel like it was just any being tacked on. i said if it was like to meet them and talk about what they had mine and you know i don't know if you saw my 1st episode with them but i was all the sudden there to the people who are the most unlikely son and daughter my kids glenn and kate one were my son my son and daughter. and i was also all sudden the father and i it was just like bizarre so bizarre and i was a guy who had

a lot of money who wanted to live in squaller so why go with charlie day in my in this little apartment and i just thought it was like so cool and look at it he's done great 13 years you know he's me put my friend danny into the hot seat for a round of you only knew it's going to be good that's next on larry king now with the star of we'll be right back. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

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a social democrat i mean i love i think democracy is something we have to fight for and it's being whittled away out by many people and i 5 believe everything i understand we were bernie's coming from i believe we need. you know medicare for all why not i mean we're you know we're a wealthy country we can take care of our people we don't have to charge people for for their education. we could forgive their debts i mean if you can bail out the banks and general motors why can't you bill at the kids and let them have a good life and have a future i gather you're not a fan of the president no i'm not a fan of the president i just think you know you know the the whole idea of you know what we're supposed to do is bring people together we're not supposed to separate people we're supposed to be a strong country look we've already warty walking on the boards of genocide we've

taken the land away from the native americans we put them in prisons we've even ported we brought african-american since the country we put them in jails and we put them in in ghettos and we and we bring drugs into the country and we do all these things it's shameful that's not what sapiens are supposed to be doing we're supposed to be make making life a better like the world a better place for each other back with rhea perlman we're hanging out we were friends we don't live together but we're friends there's a good yeah she's a wonderful lady she's a wonderful lady and the desire to get back the cat behind the camera and direct i i'm i'm looking forward to something i'm looking for you know you get busy and you start doing a lot of things and like he made some great movies pulp fiction get shorty you know i produced pulp fiction that was quinten markovitch brockovich to produce that were the roses i directed it did hoffa it was not a half

a move oh there's another would come i'm looking forward to that al but sheen yeah absolutely with scorsese c'mon amazing ok we play a little game of if you only know ok what was your 1st car plymouth yeah it was a. something like might have been and might be in 1949 plymouth as michael it was your car 49 plan no kidding it's a big trunk and it had a black yeah black but the big yeah. was your guilty pleasure icecream. secret talons play a piano you do a secret. favor tim burton film batman returns funny is then encountered woman said her grandson was going to take my picture and replace every picture in his mother's

house with my face. and i think that's kind of cute what's a food you hate tripe. yeah what is tried it's cal stomach i would meet that if you pay me to be gave me another green tea was something we should be paying more attention to humanity kindness was so many things would keep you up at night politics who would you trade places with for a day does it have to be somebody who's alive you know maria colace. not pursing yeah. who's a person who inspired you to be an actor every movie that i've ever seen while my life i've been inspired by all the great. movie makers with the movie that inspired me to be a director was a battle of algiers greatness yet great movie tell me something people don't know

about danny de vito he. this is like really hard because i am an open book. he is secretly 6 feet 2. that's good ok we have some social media questions josh to you on facebook do you ever plan on retiring from acting and he adds please don't you know you're going to carry you out of everything you can have to written me away from this jackson badger on the larry king now blog as how did tim burton get you to be a big circus ringleader in 3 different movies batman big fish and dumbo he asked what is he typecast seems like got me in his back pocket anything he wants all to. even get nial aided by martians in mars attacks alex townsend on facebook will you ever direct another movie i really love matilda yep certainly going to do that it's

in the it's in the car it's just like interesting i love directing yet it's in the courts to a baby write a love it love doing it you know adam good man on 3618 on twitter how do you feel about one flew over the cuckoo's nest decades later what a great movie. true genius and artist i love working with him he's very you know the whole idea of the movie was i had a great time doing it and i feel terrific about it it was kirk douglas is properly right actually good a michael kirk did it on broadway and right he the sixty's and i did off broadway in 1970. and michael got it made in 1974. that was something that was a hell of a movie you know just a terrific and they even watch it today i have a lot more hair i was thinner and the hated anyone more than the nurse i had the

big nurse was like a real beotch bobby no son on facebook you directed and starred in the classic dark comedy film the war of the roses you have any special memories or reflections from your work on that movie well it's how i found that movie ok michael leeson who wrote it. a good friend won out of the book born alledge the book. michael and i worked on taxi he was a writer on taxi and a very good writer and we were walking were working in his office develop he was developing some other idea prison movie that he wanted to do about prison reform and and we were beating ourselves you know pitching the ideas and sitting in the every day we going to work and i would bring rice cakes and dates and. raisins and whatever to and i said one day let's get out of here you know let's go down the

block pico boulevard i'll buy you lunch and you drive and we got news carcinomas sadie's it was full of stuff i mean it papers and everything all and i don't like that my feet not on the ground and i was kickin something i know it was and i reached down i grabbed it i had a footprint on it was my footprint and i looked at it said the war of the roses a city and you guys make this movie ready and he says no no we're just trying to get it made it fox and i said you mind if i take it away for the weekend so i took it away that weekend i fell like head over heels in love with it and i. threw a hat in the ring and then the rest was history you know i'm going with douglas oh yeah. yeah oh yeah and i got michael kathleen roped into that movie i love killing them in the end oh all baby i mean a room if you got the chandelier to my god the book was funny yeah the book was funny marie shantelle la croix on facebook which actor inspires you whose talent do

you feel is extraordinary well i mean tell it like it's like an indelible i'm like talking about tim burton's talent is like extraordinary he's a he's a he's an artist a visual artist and it's really a great a great thing to be in with with him directing i mean i respond there are so many actors now who do a great work i mean i remember like my the seminal like you know the actor that we all kind of like. aspired to be was brando and he was like mazing and i thought well this movie while i go with him yeah i could watch his movies all day long what did he do that others didn't do you know that was like it was the thing about him that he connected with that he knew that he understood about the now the president being like in touch with the character whether it was i know that one of

the reasons i can imagine that even more how could you do that with that intensity to streak or forever and ever you know he had to stop and i think that's kept him away from ironically kept him away from broadway because he would have like. you know learning every point the part that he does is like so good tony nearly on facebook your favorite story from the set of taxi moser you brought up bandy before in a dog big fan andy kaufman since i got my dress he was right next door to his we were in the back on stage 25 paramount and i remember. andy just lurking in the hallway you know one day and some lee a woman walked in with a package she was a u.p.s. woman delivering a package to somebody else and he and he went into his tony clifton wrestler character was slick really obnoxious like total like really

awful care he just parading her telling her that she should be you know home cooking for the kids and not taking a job away from a man and she got so pissed off at him you know and he said come on let's let's do it he did the whole thing and they wrestled. right in the hallway he wrestled or you know that was it was used you always picked a he did wrestle women that was a big thing with and he. he wound up winning but really he was she was a formidable opponent. she was. then and thank you her 2 man. big thanks to my guest danny de vito he's the best be sure to see him as the ringmaster in tim burton's dumbo in theaters march 29th as always you can find me on twitter rifkin's things i'll see you next.

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people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to sell food. and sugary and salty i don't think it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment . so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development that only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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