Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-up Guy - Hardcover

Joe Pantoliano

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525946772 ISBN 13: 9780525946779

Publisher: Dutton / Penguin, 2002

Synopsis

The actor best known as Ralph Cifaretto in the hit HBO series The Sopranos describes growing up as a street-smart kid in Hoboken, New Jersey, among the eccentric wise guys from his own family and neighborhood, working as a numbers runner with his chain-smoking mother, and his rise to success as a Hollywood actor. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Pantoliano has appeared in over sixty movies, including Memento, The Matrix, Bound, The Fugitive, The Goonies, Midnight Run, Empire of the Sun, and Risky Business. He is a regular featured player on The Sopranos.

From Publishers Weekly:

Sopranos actor Pantoliano, who plays the belligerent and misogynistic Ralph Cifaretto, enters the celebrity memoir arena with a jovial account of his 1950s and '60s youth in Hoboken and Fort Lee, N.J. In addition to his familiar Sopranos role, Pantoliano has appeared in over 60 movies, including Memento and The Fugitive, and will make his directorial debut with the upcoming Just Like Mona. But he saves his career for future volumes, instead concentrating here on his eccentric Italian-American family and the stormy relationship and "shared misery" of his parents, Mommy and Monk. Equal space goes to his relatives, girlfriends and childhood "pals in the projects," a gang of "piss-ant grade-schoolers" who broke into railroad cars to steal whatever they found. Young Joey's grades suffered, and by junior high, he lived in a "dyslexic bubble," but wound up righting himself by acting in school plays, eventually moving to regional theater and, finally, Hollywood. Chapters are headlined with street addresses ("310 Jackson Street," "159 Palisade Avenue"), noting each of the family's evictions or moves to yet another Garden State location. Readers meet colorful characters, including cousin "Patty-Boy," local dogcatcher Uncle Popeye and wise guy Florie, who moves in after exiting the Atlanta Penitentiary ("A New York mobster in the house had serious cachet for a twelve-year-old"). The once-dyslexic "Joey Pants" writes with energy, humor and honesty, and his passionate closing chapter, with Joey attempting to break away from his clinging, cursing Mommy to become a big-time actor, is the icing on the cake.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton / Penguin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0525946772
• ISBN 13: 9780525946779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288