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Seller: memorabilia111 ✉️ (808) 100%, Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 176284773229 DANNY PINTAURO WHOS THE BOSS CUJO ACTOR SIGNED CHILD ACTOR PHOTO 1984 SCARCE. A VERY EARLY SIGNED 3 1/2 X 5 3/4 INCH PHOTO OF DANNY PINTAURO OF CUJO AND WHOS THE BOSS FAME BEFORE HE JOINED WHOS THE BOSS. HAND SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON BACK . INSCRIBED ON FRONT BUT SIGNATURE ON FRONT IS PRINTED Daniel Adam "Danny" Pintauro is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and the 1983 horror film Cujo
Daniel Adam "Danny" Pintauro (born January 6, 1976)[citation needed] is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and the 1983 horror film Cujo. Early life Pintauro was born in Milltown, New Jersey, the son of John J. Pintauro, a manager, and Margaret L. (née Sillcocks). In 1994 he took time off from professional acting and attended Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, and later Stanford University to study English and theater; he graduated in 1998. Career Pintauro first appeared on the television soap opera As the World Turns as the original Paul Ryan. After this, he played Tad in the film Cujo. He first came to prominence on the television series Who's the Boss?.[1] After the series ended, he was less frequently cast. Pintauro went on to act in stage productions like The Velocity of Gary[2] and Mommie Queerest.[3] He appeared as a contestant on a special TV child stars episode of The Weakest Link in 2001 where he got voted off in round 4. Pintauro worked as a Tupperware sales representative[4] and a restaurant manager in Las Vegas.[5] Pintauro and his husband relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2016. As of May 2019, Pintauro is working as a vet tech at Austin Pets Alive.[6] Personal life In 1997, the National Enquirer tabloid[7] outed him as gay. In April 2013 he was engaged to his boyfriend, Wil Tabares,[5] and they married in April 2014.[8] Pintauro revealed in 2015 that he was HIV positive, having contracted the virus as the result of unsafe oral sex in 2003.[9] He also disclosed that he had previously been addicted to methamphetamine.[10] Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1983 Cujo Tad Trenton 1984 The Beniker Gang Ben Beniker 2006 The Still Life Stefan Television Year Title Role Notes 1982–1985 As the World Turns Paul Ryan 1987 Highway to Heaven Alex 2 episodes, Man's Best Friend Parts 1 & 2 1984–1992 Who's the Boss? Jonathan Bower 196 Episodes 1987 Timestalkers Billy McKenzie Television film 2001 The Weakest Link Himself TV Child Stars edition 2010 The Secret Life of the American Teenager Episode: Ben There, Done That 2015 Oprah: Where Are They Now? Himself Interview with Oprah Winfrey 2016 Unsure/Positive.[11] Greg Web series 2022 A Country Christmas Harmony Eugene Television film Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom television series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992. Produced by Hunter-Cohan Productions in association with Embassy Television (later Embassy Communications and ELP Communications) and Columbia Pictures Television, the series stars Tony Danza as Tony Micelli, a former Major League Baseball athlete who strives to raise his daughter, Samantha Micelli (Alyssa Milano), outside of the hectic nature of New York City and relocates her to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he works as a live-in housekeeper for a beautiful single advertising executive named Angela Bower (Judith Light). The series' cast also includes Katherine Helmond as Angela's mother, Mona Robinson, and Danny Pintauro as Angela's young son, Jonathan Bower. The show became one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980s. The series was nominated for more than 40 awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one of each. Also very successful in the ratings, Who's the Boss? ranked in the top ten in the final primetime ratings between 1985 and 1989, and has since continued in syndication worldwide. Episodes Main article: List of Who's the Boss? episodes Season Episodes Originally aired Rank Rating Viewers (millions) First aired Last aired 1 22 September 20, 1984 April 16, 1985 31 15.8 — 2 26 September 24, 1985 May 13, 1986 10 21.1 — 3 24 September 23, 1986 May 19, 1987 10 22.0 — 4 24 September 22, 1987 May 17, 1988 6 21.2 — 5 25 October 18, 1988 May 16, 1989 7 20.8 TBA 6 26 September 19, 1989 May 8, 1990 12 17.9 TBA 7 25 September 18, 1990 May 7, 1991 19 15.0[a] TBA 8 24 September 28, 1991 April 25, 1992 76 8.5 13.0 Plot Widower Anthony Morton "Tony" Micelli is a former Major League Baseball player who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. Wanting to move out of Brooklyn to find a better environment for his daughter, Samantha, he takes a job in the upscale New York City suburb of Fairfield, Connecticut, as a live-in housekeeper for divorced advertising executive Angela Bower and her young son Jonathan. He and Samantha move into the Bower home. Also appearing is Angela's feisty, sexually progressive mother Mona Robinson, who dates all kinds of men, from college-age to silver-haired CEOs. The title of the show refers to the role reversal of Tony and Angela. Angela is the breadwinner of the home, and Tony (although he is not her husband) stays at home and takes care of the household and provides guidance and support to the children, Samantha and Jonathan. It challenged contemporary stereotypes of young, Italian-American males as macho, boorish, and wholly ignorant of life outside of urban working-class neighborhoods. Tony was depicted as sensitive, intelligent, and domestic with an interest in intellectual pursuits, and yet still athletic and streetwise. The easy-going, spontaneous Tony and the driven, self-controlled Angela are attracted to each other, though both are uncomfortable with the notion for much of the show's run. While there is playful banter and many hints of their feelings for each other, Tony and Angela do their best to avoid facing this aspect of their developing relationship and date other people. Angela has a steady romantic interest in Geoffrey Wells (Robin Thomas), while Tony has a variety of girlfriends who come and go, including Kathleen Sawyer (Kate Vernon) in seasons six and seven. In the meantime, however, they become best friends, relying on each other frequently for emotional support. In addition, Tony provides a male role model for Jonathan, while Angela and Mona give Samantha the womanly guidance she had been missing. Keeping ties with Tony's and Samantha's Brooklyn roots is motherly former neighbor Mrs. Rossini (Rhoda Gemignani), who ends up becoming a thorn in Mona's side. Several other friends turn up a few times each season, sometimes in New York, sometimes in Connecticut. Angela eventually strikes out on her own and opens her own ad firm in season three, while Tony decides to go back to school, enrolling in the same college that daughter Samantha would later attend. Samantha's best friend Bonnie (Shana Lane-Block) is a recurring character during these seasons, while romance comes into her life in the form of her boyfriend Jesse Nash (Scott Bloom) during her senior year of high school and into college. At the start of season eight, Tony and Angela finally acknowledge their love for each other. However, the series does not end with the widely expected marriage but on a more ambiguous note. This was due primarily to concerns by the network that a marriage, representing a definitive ending, could hurt syndication. Tony Danza also vehemently opposed the marriage, saying it would contradict the original purpose of the show.[citation needed] During the final season, Samantha finds a new love in Hank Thomopoulous (Curnal Achilles Aulisio) who became a full-time character in January 1992. A fellow college student, Hank was originally poised to enter a medical program, but soon decides to become a puppeteer. Sam and Hank marry after an engagement lasting a matter of weeks. Cast Cast of Who's the Boss? Tony Danza as Tony Micelli Judith Light as Angela Robinson Bower Alyssa Milano as Samantha Micelli Danny Pintauro as Jonathan Bower Katherine Helmond as Mona Robinson Background Who's the Boss? was created by television producers and business partners Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter in 1983.[1][2] In early development, the series was titled You're the Boss, in reference to Angela employing Tony and the gender role reversal.[3] Before the fall 1984 premiere, the producers changed it to Who's the Boss?, an open ended title which hinted that any one of the leads could get their own way and be the "boss".[3] Unlike Danza, who had served as the Tony prototype from the beginning, Judith Light was one of many who auditioned for the role of Angela.[4] She was eventually cast based on her performance, which Hunter commented as "class [...] Jean Harlow type, or more of a Meryl Streep."[4] The character of Mona was initially created as an older sister to Angela, but as Cohan and Hunter struggled to handle the casting of the role, they decided on re-writing the role into "a free spirit with a quick tongue," who they envisioned Katherine Helmond to play.[4] Danny Pintauro and Alyssa Milano were also cast based on their auditions.[4] The series' pilot was shot in November 1983, a full 10 months before the show actually went on the air.[3] ABC originally was planning to put it on mid-season in January 1984, but due to creative differences[vague] between the producers and the network, the show was delayed until the next season. The show debuted on September 20, 1984, up against the debut of another sitcom, NBC's The Cosby Show. In the fall of 1991, after seven years on its established Tuesday night slot, Who's the Boss? was moved to Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. (against NBC's The Golden Girls), along with fellow long-running sitcom Growing Pains. In February 1992, ABC added the long-running Perfect Strangers and the new cartoon Capitol Critters to the night. It was promoted as the new I Love Saturday Night lineup, an equivalent to the hit Friday TGIF block. Who's the Boss? moved to 8:30 p.m., with Capital Critters as its lead-in. The I Love Saturday Night banner proved to be short-lived, folding on February 29, 1992; Who's the Boss? moved back into the Saturday 8/7c slot in early March. The series's ratings dropped significantly in its new time slot, and the decision was made to end the series in the spring of 1992.[5] The hour-long series finale aired on Saturday, April 25, 1992, along with the finales for Growing Pains and MacGyver. Who's the Boss? reruns continued to air through the summer.[5] Influence Critical reception Early reviews of the series were lukewarm. Jerry Buck, writing for Ocala Star-Banner, noted that while the series "doesn't have the same impact [as The Cosby Show], it's not bad, either." He compared Danza and Light's on-screen chemistry to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.[6] The Pittsburgh Press criticized that "the show may have a universal theme [but] it's hard to find," while Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summed the series as a "pleasant little sitcom" which was not a "struggle for mastery [but] in some ways, a rather old-fashioned love story."[7] John J. O'Connor of The New York Times was complimentary of the female leads, Light and Helmond, but was concerned if Danza, who "spends a good deal of time with his shirt off and his thick weight-lifted physique" would "keep this sitcom in ratings shape."[8] Awards and nominations Who's the Boss? was nominated for more than forty awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one each;[9] Katherine Helmond received the 1989 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, while Mark J. Levin was awarded the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction for a Comedy Series for his work on the episode "Two on a Billboard."[9] Frequently nominated at the annual Young Artist Awards, Milano earned three awards for her portrayal of Samantha.[9] Danny Pintauro and recurring guest Scott Bloom received one award each.[9] Theme song The show's theme song, "Brand New Life", was written by series creators and executive producers Cohan and Hunter, with music composed by Larry Carlton and Robert Kraft. Three versions were used throughout the series' run, which were performed by Larry Weiss (1984–86), Steve Wariner (1986–90), and Jonathan Wolff (1990–92).[10][11] The third version was first used for the last eight episodes of season six, and a very minor revision of that particular version of the theme was used during seasons seven and eight. The first line of the theme song was changed from "There is more to life than what you're living" to "There's a time for love and a time for living" in season three onwards. Distribution Syndication ABC aired reruns of Who's the Boss? at 11:00 A.M. (EST) during its daytime schedule from June 1, 1987, until July 1, 1988; it was replaced by Growing Pains on the daytime schedule. The series entered off-network syndication to premiere in September 1989; the show was a success in syndication and was offered to KTTV Fox 11 local stations (including Atlanta-based Superstation TBS and Secaucus, NJ-based WWOR-TV/Channel/UPN 9) throughout the 1990s. TBS premiered the show in October 1994 for one full hour at 7:05pm/et until July 1995 when it moved to one airing at 6:35pm/et weekdays. TBS moved the show to mornings where it aired from October 1995 until December 1996. TBS would bring back the show for one last time August 1997 to October 1997 again airing one full hour at 7:05pm/et. The show aired on Fox 11 KTTV from September 1989 until October 1997. Fox Family/ABC Family aired the series in 1999 until 2003. Nick at Nite broadcast the show between 2004 and 2006. In 2005, TV Land broadcast the show as part of Nick at Nite's 20th Anniversary Celebration. The series also aired on Ion Television from July 2007 to February 2008, airing Monday-Thursdays at 9:00 and 9:30 pm. ET.[12] It began airing on the Hallmark Channel in an early afternoon weekday block beginning on May 17, 2010, and ran until April 2, 2011. The series began airing on TVGN in July 2012, and on Hub Network from April 1 until July 12, 2013. On June 1, 2014, the show joined the regular TV Land schedule.[13] Several episodes from seasons one, two, and eight was formerly viewed for free in Minisode format on Crackle, formerly owned by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon's IMDb TV service.[14][15] On August 22, 2019, it was announced that Antenna TV would be airing reruns of the series in the fall of 2020. On July 20, 2020, Antenna TV announced that they would begin airing reruns of the series on October 5, 2020.[16][17] The series began to air on the new Great American Family network on Monday, November 29, 2021. The series also began to air on Rewind TV on January 1, 2023 and on IFC on March 24, 2023.[18] In Canada, the entire series can be streamed for free on the CTV's streaming service, CTV Throwback.[19] The series is currently available for streaming online on Sony Pictures' YouTube channel, Throw Back TV in the United States.[20][21] Some episodes of the show are currently available on Sling TV. However, all of the episodes are on Internet Archive in HD quality. Home media Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released the first season of Who's the Boss? on DVD in Region 1 on June 8, 2004.[22] The remaining seven seasons have yet to be released due to copyright issues. Spin-offs The first attempted Who's the Boss? spin-off had its origins in the second to final episode of season two, "Charmed Lives", a backdoor pilot for a program about two women up for the same job as well as overall being a series about the lives of single career women in the '80s. Starring Fran Drescher and Donna Dixon, it was not picked up as a series. In 1987, producers had planned a spin-off entitled Mona, which focused on Mona's character leaving Angela to help her brother Cornelius run a seedy hotel in Manhattan.[23] The third season featured this plot in a two-part episode, but when ABC changed their mind about the spinoff, fearing what Mona's departure could mean to the show, the ending was rewritten to feature Mona returning to Angela's home.[24] The third attempted spin-off, which did make it to series, was titled Living Dolls. Premiering and ending in 1989, the show starred Leah Remini, Michael Learned, and Halle Berry. The show featured Remini, who had appeared in two Who's the Boss? episodes as a friend of Samantha's, as a homeless model taken under the wing of an agent played by Learned. In those same Who's the Boss? episodes, Jonathan Ward played Learned's son Rick; in the Living Dolls series, David Moscow took over the role. Reboot/sequel series In August 2020, a revival/sequel of the series was announced.[25] It is slated to premiere on Amazon Freevee.[26] International versions Several versions of Who's the Boss? have been produced for foreign television markets. Some are dubbed and others are remakes. In many cases the names of the lead characters were changed: Aired in India, Samne wali khidki starred Archana Puran Singh as Sanjana and Akshay Anand as Rohit. Here, the housekeeper was a struggling actor living as paying guest who has a niece who is the same age as Sanjana's son. There is no sexual tension between Rohit and Sanjana, although she is a divorcee and is hit upon by her neighbor, retired Army man Kukreja Bharat Kapoor and various recurring guest stars. Aired in France starting 1987, first on Antenne 2 (now France 2), then on M6. The show was renamed Madame est servie ("Dinner is served", but literally "Madam is served", referring to Tony being Angela's housekeeper). When the entire series aired in Canada on Radio-Canada, only the pilot intro was used (with shots of the van going around the block after leaving Tony's apartment, and a shot of Samantha and Tony in the van). In Italy, the first two seasons were aired in 1989 on minor network Odeon TV as Casalingo Superpiù (Super Housekeeper); Katherine Helmond's character name was changed from Mona to Moira because in Italian, "mona" has a sexual reference. In the United Kingdom, The Upper Hand aired on ITV from 1990 to 1996 while the original Who's The Boss? was screened on the individual ITV regional stations. The show starred Joe McGann, Diana Weston, and Honor Blackman in the roles originally played by Tony Danza, Judith Light and Katherine Helmond respectively. In 1993, Helmond herself appeared in an episode of this version as Madame Alexandra.[27] Though the show had been broadcast in Germany in a dubbed version as Wer ist hier der Boss? (Who is the Boss Here?) since 1992 on RTL Television, a year later, the channel produced 15 early episodes with a German cast. The show was called Ein Job fürs Leben (A Life's Job). Tony was renamed Vito, an Italian guest worker from Berlin-Neukölln and former striker of soccer club Hertha BSC. Angela Bower was renamed Barbara Hoffmann. Their home was located in Hamburg's upscale suburb Othmarschen. Despite these little changes, the original scripts were used for shooting, and even the stage set was an almost identical replica of the original American set, with only minor details changed, such as paintings and bric-a-brac in German style. RTL Television gave the same treatment to Married... with Children under the title Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt (Help! My family is nuts!) with 26 episodes.[28] The two shows shared the first hour on Thursdays in the prime time slot from 8:15 pm to 10:15 pm. A Spanish-language version, produced in Mexico by TV Azteca and Columbia TriStar International Television, debuted in 1998 under the title Una familia con Ángel (A Family with Angel) starring Laura Luz and Daniel Martínez. It was broadcast in the U.S. on the Telemundo network. In Brazil, Rede Bandeirantes produced with Columbia TriStar International Television a Portuguese-language version of the show called Santo de Casa (House Saint), starring Daniel Boaventura, Regina Remencius and Ana Lúcia Torre. This version debuted in 1999.[29] In 2005, the Argentinian network Telefé also made its own local version called ¿Quién es el Jefe? (Who is the Boss?), a direct translation of the original American title. It starred Nicolás Vázquez, Gianella Neyra and Carmen Barbieri in the adult roles. In 2006, a Russian remake premiered that was titled Kto v dome khozyain? (which translates as "Who is the head in this house?"). It ran for 2 years on CTC. It starred Anna Nevskaya (as Daria, the boss) and Andrey Noskov (as Nikita, the housekeeper).[30] In 2006, Colombian network Caracol TV produced ¿Quién manda a quién? (which was the title of the original show when dubbed in Spanish). A Polish version, I kto tu rządzi? (And Who is in Charge Here?), debuted in 2007 on Polsat, starring Małgorzata Foremniak and Bogusław Linda. In Turkey, it is aired as Patron Kim? (Who is the Boss?) on ATV Turkey. References Cujo is a 1983 American horror film based on Stephen King's 1981 novel of the same name and directed by Lewis Teague. It was written by Don Carlos Dunaway and Barbara Turner (using the pen name Lauren Currier),[4][5] and starring Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro. The film follows a mother and her son who are trapped inside their car, while protecting themselves from a rabid St. Bernard. Despite mixed reviews and modest box office receipts during its theatrical release, the film has gathered a cult following in the years since its release. It was released four months before Christine, another Stephen King story released theatrically the same year.[6] Plot Cujo, a friendly and easygoing St. Bernard, chases a wild rabbit and inserts his head into a cave, where a rabid bat bites him on the nose. Meanwhile, the Trenton family—advertising executive Vic, housewife Donna, and their sensitive young son Tad—take their car to the rural home of abusive mechanic Joe Camber for some repairs, where they meet Cujo, the Camber family's pet, and get along well with him. Donna notices Cujo's bitten nose but thinks little of it. Later, Vic and Donna's marriage is tested when Vic learns that Donna had been having an affair with her ex-boyfriend from high school, Steve Kemp, while Vic's advertising for a cereal commercial is failing. The early signs of Cujo's infection start to appear, including sensitivity to loud noises, and irritability, though no one notices these changes in his behavior. Charity and Brett, Joe's wife and son, leave the house for a week to visit Charity's sister Holly. On the morning of their departure, the furious stage of the infection begins to set in; though Cujo refrains from attacking Brett, he soon goes completely mad and kills the Cambers' alcoholic neighbor Gary Pervier. Shortly afterwards, Joe goes to Gary's house and finds him dead, then tries to call the authorities just before Cujo appears and attacks him. Vic goes out of town on a business trip, as Donna and Tad return to the Cambers' house for more car repairs. Cujo attacks them, and they are forced to take shelter in their Ford Pinto. Donna tries to drive home, but the car's alternator dies and the two are trapped inside. The hot sun makes conditions nearly unbearable, and Donna realizes that she must do something before they both die from heatstroke or dehydration. However, attempts at escape are foiled by Cujo repeatedly attacking the car, breaking a window in the process, and even biting Donna. Vic, concerned that Donna hasn't answered his calls, returns to check on her and Tad; only to find them both missing, and his house vandalized by Kemp. He suspects the possessive Kemp of kidnapping, but the police realize his wife and son might be at the Cambers' house. The local sheriff, George Bannerman, arrives at the mechanic's house and has a brief standoff with Cujo; before he can draw his gun, Cujo knocks him off the catwalk in the barn and mauls him to death. Later, Donna attempts to get to the house to bring a dehydrated and overheated Tad water but is stopped by Cujo; she fights him off with a baseball bat until it breaks, leaving only a jagged handle. Cujo jumps at her and is impaled in the stomach by the broken bat. Donna takes the sheriff's gun and contemplates shooting him, but decides saving Tad is more important. After Donna revives Tad inside the kitchen, Cujo, still alive, breaks through the kitchen window and tries to attack Donna. However, Donna shoots Cujo dead before Vic arrives and reunites with his family. Cast Dee Wallace as Donna Trenton Danny Pintauro as Tad Trenton Daniel Hugh-Kelly as Vic Trenton Christopher Stone as Steve Kemp Ed Lauter as Joe Camber Kaiulani Lee as Charity Camber Billy Jacoby as Brett Camber Mills Watson as Gary Pervier Jerry Hardin as Masen Sandy Ward as Sheriff George Bannerman Arthur Rosenberg as Roger Breakstone Production [icon] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (October 2016) The original director was Peter Medak, who left the project two days into filming, along with DOP Anthony B. Richmond. They were replaced by Lewis Teague and Jan de Bont respectively.[7] Cujo was played by four St. Bernards, several mechanical dogs, and a black Labrador–Great Dane mix in a St. Bernard costume.[8] In some shots, stuntman Gary Morgan played Cujo while wearing a large dog costume.[9] Karl Miller was the trainer for the dogs in Cujo.[10] Reception Box office Cujo was a modest box office success for Warner Brothers. The film was released August 12, 1983, in the United States, opening in second place that weekend.[11] It grossed a total of $21,156,152 domestically,[3] making it the fourth-highest-grossing horror film of 1983 behind Jaws 3-D, Psycho II, and Twilight Zone: The Movie.[12] Critical response Reviews from critics were mixed. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote the film was "by no means a horror classic, but it's suspenseful and scary".[13] Variety panned it as "a dull, uneventful entry in the horror genre, a film virtually devoid of surprises or any original suspense".[14] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star out of four, calling it "one of the dumbest, flimsiest excuses for a movie I have ever seen".[15] Roger Ebert called it "dreadful",[16] and Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "no theater is air conditioned enough to justify watching this scary, gory and beastly movie".[17] Steve Jenkins of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that "for the most part Cujo works very effectively as a near reductio ad absurdum of the woman-in-peril-mode", but disliked that the film changed the ending from the book, thinking it made "absolutely no sense in terms of the film's logic".[18] Author and film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three out of a possible four stars, calling it "genuinely frightening", and also writing: "Builds slowly but surely to [its] terrifying (but not gory) climax".[19] Despite the mixed reception, Stephen King called the film "terrific" and named it one of his favorite adaptations.[20] On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 59% approval rating based on 44 reviews, with the website's consensus stating: "Cujo is artless work punctuated with moments of high canine gore and one wild Dee Wallace performance".[21] On Metacritic, the film holds a 57/100 based on reviews from 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22] Possible second adaptation In 2015, Sunn Classic Pictures announced that it would develop another adaptation titled C.U.J.O., which stands for "Canine Unit Joint Operations".[23] Nothing came of it after its announcement. See also Film portal flag United States portal icon Speculative fiction/Horror portal icon 1980s portal The Doberman Gang (1972) Trapped (1973 film) Dogs (1976) The Pack (1977) Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) Dracula's Dog (1978) White Dog (1982) Dogs of Hell (1982) Man's Best Friend (1993 film) Rottweiler (2004) The Breed (2006 film) The Pack (2015 film) Mr. Pickles List of natural horror films References his is the story of a former TV child star who did not get arrested for slapping a fan or for beating up a transvestite hooker in Arizona, did not crash his expensive car into a house in Encino or go into rehab to kick a drug habit. "Excuse me," the waitress asks, "but are you Jonathan?" Danny Pintauro smiles up from the corner table at Harvey's in the Castro and answers, "Well, yeah, among other people." It's been eight years since "Who's the Boss?" ended its eight-year run on ABC, but Pintauro gets the Jonathan question all the time. Although he's still recognized as the Goody Two-shoes son of Judith Light's Angela Bower, the 24-year-old actor, in town to star in "The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)" at New Conservatory Theatre, is nothing like the character he played on TV. And unlike so many ex-child stars, Pintauro did not self-destruct when he stopped being famous. Still a self-described "skinny kid," Pintauro speaks in un-Jonathan-like declarative sentences, even when conceding that he has yet to figure out what he wants to do with his life. "What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having," he says. "And maybe that's what's making me go, 'Well, maybe that's not what I want to do.' "I have a feeling," he adds, "that when I find whatever it is I'm supposed to do, I'll have that passion. I don't yet, and that's OK." Pintauro has spent most of his life in show business, beginning at 2 as a child model. He played a rich kid for five years on "As the World Turns" before landing the role of Jonathan Bower. His film work includes the 1983 Stephen King film "Cujo" and Scholastic's "The Benniker Gang" with Andrew McCarthy. When "the show," as Pintauro invariably calls it, went off the air, he auditioned for a few things but when nothing materialized, he went to Stanford and almost disappeared from the public eye while he earned a degree in drama (with a focus on directing). The "almost" was provided by the National Enquirer, which was planning to out Pintauro in 1997. Pintauro's response was to offer himself up -- for the interview, a tables-turning maneuver that resulted in a very positive article about a young actor who didn't think being gay was anything to hide or to apologize for. Pintauro is many things, but the one thing he has never been is a "celebrity basket case," thanks in large part to his parents' insistence that he have a normal childhood. Nonetheless, he knows he missed an important part of growing up. "From the time I was 2, I was doing one thing after another," he says. "And if there was space in between projects, it was very small. It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro." Right now, doing Dan Pintauro means reviving a character he first played off-Broadway last year to favorable reviews and sold- out houses. "The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name)" was also made into a film last year with Vincent D'Onofrio and Salma Hayek, but the film version, even if it had been watchable, is nothing like James Still's original play, in which a young hustler who calls himself Gary offers a 90-minute stream-of-consciousness tour of his searching mind. "Gary" ran for a month in New York last year before Pintauro had to go to Washington, D.C., to play a 16-year-old kid in Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel's searing drama about spousal abuse, "Hot 'n' Throbbing." From there, he went to North Carolina to play Bosie in Moises Kaufman's "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde." He thought he'd left Gary behind him for good. "I was OK at leaving it at that, but Mark wanted to do it again, and I realized I wanted to do it, too," Pintauro says. "There were lots of things (in the character) I still wanted to explore." Pintauro and playwright Mark Cannistraro spent five weeks rehearsing the play in New York before arriving in San Francisco for the New Conservatory opening this week. One thing Pintauro didn't have to do for "Who's the Boss?" is round up props: On Sunday, he snags some fake flowers and a bulldog with a spike collar and a bobbing head that will find their way onto the set, to represent things Gary thinks and talks about. When the play's run is finished, Pintauro will go back to New York to teach acting in a private high school. He's not sure, though, how much longer he'll stay in New York. Washington has an appeal, since his boyfriend lives there. For now, though, he still auditions for theater and films, but don't expect to see him pop up in another sitcom soon. "Absolutely not," he says. "And the reason is the challenges. There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me. It would take a lot. I've made a lot of money (in the sitcom) and I've had the celebrity, so why do it?" If being an out gay actor limits Pintauro's chances for certain roles, he all but shrugs at the problem. "Maybe I'm a unique case because if I were straight, I still couldn't play the handsome Romeo type. I'm not built for it," he says. "I'm a skinny kid, and I don't look 24. I've already got that problem outside of being gay. I'm auditioning for all kinds of things, but mostly teenagers and guys in their early, early 20s. In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting." Danny Pintauro, the onetime child star of TV's "Who's the Boss," winds up his New York theatre debut July 30 in The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name), a solo-actor drama about a young street hustler. Advertisement Danny Pintauro, the onetime child star of TV's "Who's the Boss," winds up his New York theatre debut July 30 in The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name), a solo-actor drama about a young street hustler. Director Mark Cannistraro said to handle a last-minute surge of business a midnight July 30 show has been added in addition to the 10 PM July 30 show. They had hoped to extend the play, but Pintauro isn’t immediately available. He's been cast in Paul Vogel's comic tragedy about sex, sexuality, erotica and pornography, Hot 'n' Throbbing, at Arena Stage in Washington DC, Sept. 3-Oct. 17. Velocity, which began previews July 8 and opened July 14 at the Duplex in Greenwich Village, might have a future life at a larger venue in New York, reports Cannistraro, but nothing is set. The director told Playbill On-Line: "We’re looking into the possibility of taking the production to another city and are looking for venues in Chicago and Los Angeles." The production at the tiny Duplex had several sellout evenings following the July 14 opening. Final performances are 10 PM July 29-30. The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, 61 Christopher Street, in Greenwich Village. Tickets are $15 with a two drink minimum. For reservations, call [phone removed by eBay]. * Originally written and performed by playwright, James Still, Velocity takes naive Gary (and his leopard-print underwear) on a tour of seamy Manhattan and into a circle of drug dealers, drag queens, porn stars -- and a dog named Rodney. Pintauro, who was Jonathan Bower on "Who's the Boss" for eight years, recently graduated from Stanford University with a theatre degree. A Columbia/Tri-Star film version, "The Velocity of Gary," starring Salma Hayek and Vincent D'Onofrio was released in New York during the run of the staging. Designers are Michael Dion (set), Thomas Honeck (lighting) and David Kaley (costumes). Playwright Still is a playwright-in-residence at Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis. Other works include And Then They Came for Me (George Street Playhouse and Indiana Rep) and an adaptation of John Gardner's novella, In the Suicide Mountains. (Mark Taper Forum). He also wrote the screenplay for Velocity of Gary.. “He made a video, and in the video held up the box [with the ring],” Pintauro, now a Vegas restaurant manager, tells Us. “I looked up and he had it in his hand!” Entertainer and Cosmopolitan casino employee Tabares quickly shared the happy news — and a pic of the ring — with his Facebook friends. “He said yes!” read the caption. Related: PHOTOS: Out and proud stars Their wedding plans are slightly complicated, legally speaking. “We live in a state, Nevada, that does not yet allow same-sex marriage,” explains the Stanford University grad, who came out as gay in 1997, and whose most recent acting credit was a 2010 episode of the Secret Life of the American Teenager. “Our plan is to move to California once Prop 8 is overturned.” Check our latest news in Google News FOLLOW US danny and wil Danny Pintauro and Wil Tabares at dinner after the proposal Related: PHOTOS: Best celeb engagement rings of all time Pintauro starred as Jonathan Bower alongside TV mom Judith Light, Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano in ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss from 1984 to 1992. He adds of his husband-to-be: “Wil is the best, and I couldn’t be happier to spend the rest of our lives together!” In the week since his headline-making revelation on Oprah: Where Are They Now? that he’s been HIV positive for 12 years, Who’s the Boss? star Danny Pintauro has been working to become an AIDS and HIV activist for those struggling with the same secret. In his first exclusive sit-down interview with his husband of one year, Wil Tabares, Pintauro, 39, opened up about how he contracted the virus. Related: PHOTOS: Celebrity activists “Believe it or not, with this guy I was actually safe. We did use condoms,” Pintauro, who played Jonathan on Who’s the Boss? from 1984 to 1992, tells Us in his exclusive interview. “I got it another way, which was through oral sex. When you put all of these nasty things together, like a compromised immune system, having been up for a long time, drugs, rough sex, all of that combined with lesions in your mouth, bodily fluids, it’s that easy.” Danny Pintauro: I Contracted HIV From Oral Sex — Watch the Interview With the Who’s the Boss? Star Who’s the Boss?’s Danny Pintauro revealed he contracted HIV from oral sex BEI/Shutterstock During his same interview with Oprah, Pintauro revealed he was previously addicted to crystal meth. He contracted HIV around the same time he was struggling with substance abuse. Related: PHOTOS: Gay celebs' coming out stories Though he did not name his sexual partner to Us, Pintauro admitted that he had forgotten the man’s name until one day he happened upon it in an email. Since then he’s been trying to locate him. Danny Pintauro: I Contracted HIV From Oral Sex — Watch the Interview With the Who’s the Boss? Star Danny Pintauro (R) and husband Wil Tabares Carolyn Contino/BEI/Shutterstock “I have searched. I searched the obituaries because I had a fear that I’d find him there, and I can’t find him. So we’re going to keep doing it,” Pintauro says as Tabares nods. (Us Weekly broke the news of both Pintauro’s engagement and April 2014 wedding to Tabares.) “Mostly I just want to find out if he’s okay. The lifestyle he was leading was really irresponsible and I just want to see if he survived.” Danny Pintauro: I Contracted HIV From Oral Sex — Watch the Interview With the Who’s the Boss? Star Danny Pintauro Jim Smeal/Shutterstock Related: PHOTOS: Hollywood's gay power couples After making his announcement on Oprah, Pintauro kicked off his Beacon of Light Tour to spread awareness about HIV and the dangers of crystal meth use and participating in HIV Equal Campaign, which aims to eliminate HIV stigma. Watch the clip now to see which Who’s the Boss? costar was left out of the loop on Pintauro’s HIV confession and how he first told his husband. Former Who's the Boss? actor Danny Pintauro is staging a Hollywood comeback with his first major role in 30 years — a part in a Lifetime Christmas movie. But it was a sci-fi series that inspired him to revive his career, which had largely faded since his eight-season stint playing Judith Light's son on the ABC sitcom ended in 1992. While streaming Star Trek: Discovery at home in Austin last year, he watched as stars Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp, both openly gay, "had this beautiful kiss," he says in the new issue of PEOPLE. The moment resonated with Pintauro, 46, a self-described big believer in fate and signs from the universe. He had been publicly forced out of the closet by The National Enquirer in 1997, a time when there were hardly any out gay actors at all, let alone gay actors kissing on TV. As he marveled at how much has changed, Pintauro "was jealous," he says. "It made me want to participate." He took it as a sign. "Something just clicked," he says. "I finally felt ready." (L to R) Danny Pintauro and Giancarlo Sabogal star in A Country Christmas Harmony For years he wasn't eager to get back in the game. "I had a lot of trauma from my time after Who's the Boss?" he says. He became addicted to drugs, was diagnosed with HIV, struggled financially and faced professional rejection again and again. He recalls thinking "maybe I was a child actor, and that's all I was supposed to be." But he now has the outlook of someone who's survived the worst and knows better days lie ahead. "Possibilities," he says, "are out there."  Danny Pintauro Discusses Life After Revealing He Is HIV+: 'I'm Much Happier as a Person with No Secrets' He was right to have faith. After telling his husband, Wil Tabares, 54, about his goal to get back into Hollywood, Pintauro quit his job as a veterinarian technician, called his former manager, secured his first audition and landed a role on A Country Christmas Harmony, playing the best friend and assistant to a country singer (Brooke Elliott) trying to boost her sagging career. "I couldn't believe it," he says of getting the very first gig he tried out for. It had been decades since the New Jersey native had that kind of luck. His late mother, Margaret, a hairdresser turned talent agent, and father, John, who worked at a lumber store, got their only child into acting early. "Every single thing, I would get," says Pintauro: commercials, the horror movie Cujo and, of course, Who's the Boss? The hit comedy (in its heyday it had 30 million viewers per week) about a live-in housekeeper (Tony Danza) for a successful ad exec (Light) turned Pintauro into a household name. But during the show's later years when he was a teen, the actor says, producers "didn't really know what to do with me."  The Cast of Who's the Boss?: Where Are They Now? Though he wasn't yet out, Pintauro says his sexuality was obvious to others. "They didn't feel like my character dating a girl was believable," he says. So he was stuck with banal story lines like accidentally scratching a car. "I didn't understand why," says Pintauro, who thought, "They don't want me to be here." (Pintauro makes it clear that the feeling didn't stem from his costars, including Light, Danza and Alyssa Milano, who were all "great," he says.) At the same time, he struggled socially at his L.A. school. "I just wanted to be a normal guy," says Pintauro, who attended class in the morning before going to set. Once fellow students realized he wasn't going to live up to a "celebrity vibe," they ignored him. "I didn't have friends," he says. "So you've got two instances of me just not feeling wanted, and that stuck with me." When Boss wrapped its run in 1992, Pintauro threw himself into schoolwork and went to Stanford University, where he studied to become a veterinarian. By then, "acting was not in my realm of thought," he says. But he failed chemistry and shifted gears into the theater program. Then came the call from the Enquirer threatening to reveal his sexuality. Pintauro, who was by then out to his friends and family, gave an interview to help control the narrative. "I'm trying to study, and suddenly I'm having to deal with this," he says. DANNY PINTAURO rollout COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION Though he says he was initially "angry," he calmed down after fans let him know how much he inspired them following the publication of the article: "I've still got a box of letters from people across the country." After college he moved to New York City but struggled to find work as a theater director. He'd depleted much of his child-star savings by paying for Stanford, so he found odd jobs acting in plays or waiting tables. He also fell in with a bad crowd, partied at clubs and started doing drugs. "I was lost," he says. "A year goes by, and I'm doing a lot of crystal meth." During one sexual encounter while high on drugs, he contracted HIV. New York "became an ugly place" with bad memories, says Pintauro, who began taking medication to treat the virus. For a fresh start, he moved back to L.A., weaned himself off drugs without going to rehab and tried to get back into acting. Alas, "auditions were very few and far between," he says. Another ego blow: He was a punch line on a 2003 episode of Will & Grace. When his rep contacted the show to get Pintauro an appearance, they rebuffed him. "I said, 'Well, if you won't invite me on, I'll buy my way on.'" He bid on and won a walk-on role at a charity auction. But after what he terms "months of runaround" from the show, he decided not to film, he says. "It brought back all of that trauma of not feeling wanted." He took it as a sign from the universe to move on from show business. Pintauro tried his hand at random gigs: manager at a P.F. Chang's, casting assistant and Tupperware sales consultant, which is how he met Tabares at a Tupperware party in 2012. An attraction sparked, and within two years they were married. "My husband," says Pintuaro, "means everything to me." The pair settled down in Austin, where Pintauro trained to become a vet technician. They weren't wealthy — "We've always just been getting by," he says — but they were happy. "I certainly had a great life," says Pintauro, who is healthy (his viral load is undetectable) and shares three rescue dogs with Tabares. "There was no reason to upset the balance." Still, after seeing the Star Trek: Discovery kiss, Pintauro couldn't get acting out of his head.  Who's the Boss? Stars Alyssa Milano and Danny Pintauro Reunite at Tony Danza's Cabaret Show in L.A. Milano, his friend and former costar, is thrilled he's making a comeback. "I'm very proud of Dan," she says. "Not only for following his lifelong dream but even more so for being a good person and staying true to who he is despite the hardships he's faced." The two may share the screen again on Amazon Freevee's upcoming Who's the Boss? sequel series, which will focus on Danza's character and his daughter Samantha (Milano). Asked if he'll appear, Pintauro is coy. "I've been involved in some conversations," he says. But he's also eager to prove he's not just the kid from the sitcom: "I can play all kinds of parts." Pintauro, who recently relocated to the L.A. area with Tabares, is at peace with the idea of things not panning out, but he's confident they will. "I can feel it in my gut," he adds.
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