Armand about acting
	From 1970 - 1979
	INTERVIEWs WITH ARMAND ASSANTE
	Armand Assante worked with following movies/theatre pieces in 1970 - 1979: (The movies that has an interview or an article connected with it is linked here) "Lake of the Woods"  "Perciles, Prince of Tyre" "The Beauty Part" "The Lords of Flatbush"  Boccaccioīs "Decameron"  "How to survive a Marriage" "First Ladies Diaries, Rachel Jacson" "Comedians" "Romeo and Juliet" "Kojac" "The Doctors" "Paradise Alley"  "The Pirate" "Human Feelings" "Lady of the House" "The Pirat" "Mrs. Columbo" "Prophecy" "I, the Jury"
	About this site At this page you can find links to PDF-files with resumes from articles and photo scannings of some of the original interviews given by Armand Assante through time, as he talked about the roles he has been performing....... Original articles are marked with Very good and fullfilling interviews are marked with a huge A (a-grade) for their quality and interesting content. New but rather old interviews or articles are announced below as "New articles or announcement posted where ?" and refers to the decade in question. Lately most newspapers and magazins have scanned old articles and brought them on the internet.
		Where can you see a clip of a movie or a trailer ? Got to this decade's filmography and look for videos or trailer next to the movies (1970 - 1979)
	Photos of Armand Assante as he was very young (Opens in PDF file)
	July 23, 1970 Armand Assante Theatre "Romeo and Juliet"	Newspaper article with the headline: 'Romeo and Juliet' next Festival Theatre offering. In left column almost at the bottom there a section called: Duelling scenes..and right after Armand Assante is mentioned as playing the  Hero.. DigitalNewspapersArchive  link is sadly dead
	July 30, 1970 Armand Assante Theatre "Romeo and Juliet"	Newspaper article with the title: "An evening of boredom with "Romeo and Juliet" It says in the section: Servent-like Juliet "Armand Assante as Romeo appears to be trying.." DigitalNespaperArchive  link is sadly dead
	July 30, 1970 Daily Collegian Penn State University Armand Assante in Shakepeare's "Romeo and Juliet"	".....Curently at the Playhouse and continuing through august 9, is William Skaepseare's "Romeo and Juliet"....Armand Assante plays Romeo. He has worked with the Alliance Theatre Company of Atlanta during the past year and has appeared in Broadway shows....." read more.. digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu  link is sadly dead
	December 23, 1971 The Pittsbugh Press By Jack Gaver Review Theatre Armand Assante in his role as houseboy in Steve Tesich's "Lake of the Woods" The American Place Theatre (MAP)	An interesting old review from Armand Assante early theatre days. We here get insight in the plot in the play about a successful New Yorker who has put his wife, sick daughter and his houseboy (Armand Assante) into a trailer and heads West for a big vacation...that does'nt turn out the way it should..... Itīs described as a comedy with a rueful undertone... Read more.... google.com.newspapers/archive stil works See also: The American Place Theatre's history...Fay Dunnaway, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere and many, many others performed once here...
	April 3, 1973 The Pittsburgh Press By Edward L. Blank Press Drama Editor Theater "Candida" Armand Assante as Eugene Marchbanks Read about Bernard Shaw's play Candida	George Bernhard Shaw's "Candida" The Long Wharf Theater, based in New Haven, Conn. (Go street viewing) is presenting the anti-romatic comedy through saturday at 8.30 at nightly, with matinee at the 2 p.m. Saturday Memoriral Hall on Fobes Avenue side of the Cathedral of Learning. Armand Assante performes Eugene Marchbanks, the ultimate fool, he thinks he's in love and that the shrewdest way to a woman's heart is through the role of underdog. One very early theatre play with Armand Assante in it...we haven't heard of so fare... google.newspapers/archive stil works
	Month ?, 1975, 1976 ? The origin of this article is not known TV Magazin ? TVM Armand Assante Interview "I want Freedom" by Miki Dorsey	Armand Assante has been performing in "How to survive a Marriage" and is involved in the TV Daytime Soap "Little Doctors" in his part as Mike Powers or has just ended it, he informes he is 26 years old so it can be 1975 or 1976. All we know for sure is that the article is made by Miki Dorsey. Itīs a donation from a fan and was originally made as a scanning of the real article. Sorry for the bad quality...it had to undergo some "cleansing" to be read-able. When asked why he is in Daytime Soap he says "For the money !" Still he likes the atmosphere on set. He talks freely about his "love life" or rather sex-life. Being "famous" as Mike Powers he is surrounded by admiring weman most of them actresses. He dates often and sometimes is involved in more than one relationsship at the time. Itīs emotionally demanding. He would like to date a woman outside this business, just to try out the experriance..he admits he would like to get married some day and have children. At this time of his life he is hard to get in contact with and not eager to be interviewed. He is allready known to be looking very serious and he is afraid to smile because Mike Powers is known to have a serious look. Famous producers has a good eye for him but he doesīnt seem to want to long contracts...He want's his freedom. The short time for preparing the lines in a Soap Opera is not something this thorough man likes to much either. About love and marrigde... Philososphically he declares: "In the beginning marrigde must have been fantastic because it was a spiritual statement. Today, it often does not hold because of the question of values that has gone in our society now. Years ago it was the first spiritual statement that two people made on their unioin. That's why I believe marrigde is often an abused instituion today...and he proceeds...I hope I will get married, it will hold the spiritual aspect and that it will be the controlling element within it. I'd hate to marry for any other reason. I do look forward to it when it comes !" Read more about it.... "I want Freedom" original article from 1975 open in PDF)
	Month ? 1975 Afternoon TV Magazin by Barbara Anson Armand Assante is on TV with his role Mike Powers	Title: "Marrigde is an abused Instutution" Only 25 years old and not yet married, Armand Assante gives an interview to Afternoon TV Magasin in 1975 while he is working with "Doctors" Armand Assante is not sure acting is his life's work. But his book collection though variated is heavy on theater. And speaking of love, Armand confesses that there is a very special person in his life right now who does indeed, help make his life a joy. But Armand Assante is not headed for the altar... "Marrigde is an abused instutution in every sense. Itīs like a business contract, a partnership, based on a relationship that allready exsist, and should be growing and developing, even after the contract is signed. Love without the contract, is an art and demands a lot of work. Marrigde is often misinterpreted as the consummation of the love relationship, when it's not. All it is is a contract, and most people don't have the relationship to support that contract !" says Armand Assante. He says: "Acting is my way of life !" and expresses clearly that he loves to work, and that love, is a lot of work to ! (Scanning of the original article 6 pages  opens in PDF)... Please waite the document is heavy Donated by american fan
	April 18, 1975 The Dispath Armand Assante as co-star the prominent daytime performer Gerald Gordon in the 90 minutes biographical love drama "First Ladies' Diaries: Rachel Jackson" An NBC TV production	Armand Assante performes the dashing Army Captain Lewis Robards in the dramatical love story of Rachel Jackson and Andrew Jackson seventh president of United States...a colorcasting brought on the NBC Televison Network Friday, April 18, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Another production we never heard much of, but here you can read about it... And is was very special that this drama was brought in color ! google.com.news Archive stil works "Jackson fought 13 duels, many nominally over his wife's honor" itīs says on WikiPedia under the section of this president's family and private life. His wife was married to some one else and may be not proberly divorced before he called her his wife... read more about it here wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Family_and_personal_life Read this about Captain Lewis Robards and the dispute between him and the President and Rachel Jackson...scroll a bit down... RobardsLewis-RachelDonelson-HannahWithers "First Ladies Diaries" at the IMDb were Armand Assante figures as having the leading role.
	November 28, 1975 The Miami News Edison Broadway Theatre Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" Armand Assante singing and dancing	Interesting article that brings news about the "young and good looking and serious-minded actor Armand Assante" that recently was performing Dr. Mike Powers in the soap "The Doctors" Armand Assante says among others "After earning so little for so long, while you're still learning your craft, the lure of a good paying job on a soap operes is very tempting, to say the least" The article is mentioning that Armand Assante recently got a brief fling on the musical stage in Massachusetts production of "The Drunkard" Another title of a piece we never heard about before ?! In compagny with seven other actors Armand Assante "...romp through musical numbers in Boccaccio's classical tale "The Decameron". news.google.com/newspapers stil works  Read fragment of Boccaccio's "The Decameron".1313-1375 fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio About Boccaccio himself historyguide.org/ancient/boccaccio Read also: November 26, 1975 New York Times announcement of the Boccaccio play NYtimes Archives
	March, 1977 Afternoon TV Magazin by Kevin Mulligan Interview with Armand Assante "Iīm working at love - and I really don't want to..."	A young Armand Assante living in a spacious apartment overlooking New York's Hudson River.... .....Armand talks about life, love, commitment, learning and ambition.... He just did "How to survive a marriage" and is about to do "Little Doctor's" ".....I would say Iīm a very private person. Most Interviews that have ever been done about me have been very funny because  they've allways asked questions about my lovelife, which is really screwed up..." About the future: "...I think there is something else I would like to be, that there are other things I want to say, other things I want to do...!!" (and he was right) ".....I want to get back to what I felt when I was fifteen. I want to feel something unpremeditated shake my typewriter. Iīm waiting for that renaissance of wonder to back again - about the whole thing..." ....and did he have to waite 33 years...? read the article from Haute Living Magazine, december , 2008 further down this page .....and compare Read scanning of original article(black and white) (Opens in PDF) article sponsered by american fan from NY
	November 1, 1978 The Rock Hill Herald review Armand Assante in "Lady of the House" as attorney Ernest de Paulo More on "Lady of the House"	Starring up against Dyan Cannon who stars Saaly Stanford, the flamboyant San Francisco madam who became the mayor of the Marin County suburb of Sausalito, a true life story...Armand Assante performes her husband attorney Ernest de Paulo who divorces her because of her past, he didīnt know about before to late...read more about the story.... google.com.newspapers/archive stil works
	November 14, 1978 Toledo Blade by Earl Wilson New York Armand Assante Interview Dyan Canon/"Lady of the House"	"I've been flying ever since!" says a young Armand Assante (29) about his first expereance in the Theatre watching Mary Martin doing "Peter Pan". The interviewer is more interested in his relationship with Dyan Canon than the "Lady of the House" were they perform lovers. "Marriage is out of the picture, though we've talked about it !" says Armand Assante. And the silly questions about being a sex-symbol ? " "I can handle that !" he is a serious actor and he still is. Google/news/Archive stil works
	November 14, 1978 Boca Raton News by Skip Sheffield "Paradise Alley" Armand Assante as Lenny Movie review	Sylvester Stallone's movie about 3 brothers Carboni who lives in "Hell's Kitchen" New York. Armand Assante performes the elder brother a former hero, who has a Purple Heart, a gimpy leg and no future to show for his bravery. Lenny works as an undertaker. In the end of this movie Sylvester Stallone try's himself as a singer...proberly the worst song I ever heard, but it's worth to have a try... Not so uplifting review... GoogleNews/archive See also: Febuary 1, 1978 St. Peterburg Times by Bob Thomas Review "Paradise Alley" Armand Assante is given compliments for his performance.... The movie was first called "Hells Kitchen". Sylvester Stallone says: "I send the manuscript to Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Steve McQueen and even to John Saxon and nothing happend..." GoogleNews/Archive stil works
	November 14, 1978 Kentucky New Era By Jay Sharbutt TV review "Lady of the House" Armand Assante as Ernest de Paulo	Review of this true life story performed by Dyan Cannon and Armand Assante who is a young, handsome cultured San Francisco lawyer that marries Sally Stanford (Dyan Cannon) under falls pretensions and later devorces her because of his position. Sally Stanford actually runs a bawdyhouse. The story goes on in the 1930s and 1940s. GoogleNews/Archive
	November 17, 1978 The Hour article/review about the movie "The Pirate" a filmatzing of Harold Robbin's own novel by the same name	Armand Assante performed Ahmed in this movie. We never hear so much about it. Here you have a chance to get further introduced to the plot. Armand Assante is not mentioned. The writer ends his article with: You may not want the kids to watch...there is to much steamy sex and bellydancers in the movie. google.newspapers/archive stil works  "The Pirate" banned... April 6, 1977 Eugene Register-Guard small notice: The Jordanian Goverment has banned the sale and circulation of "The Pirate" google.newspapers/archive
	November 22, 1978 The Miami News Advertising for "Paradise Alley" Armand Assante and Sylvester Stallone More on "Paradise Alley"...	Headline:"... A totally unique and entrancing picture "Paradise Alley" is very, very good and strangely moving.." Rona Barett, ABC, TV. Watch this old clipping for your self.. news.google.com/newspapers Itīs actually Sylvester Stallone's "fault" that Armand Assante started acting in movies..! A very young Armand Assante is here performing an "old and worned out" Lenny limping around supported by his stick.
	December 8, 1978 Ocala Star Banner Article were Armand Assante, Eric Roberts and Christopher Reeds are mentioned	The article discusses the upcomming stars of Hollywood... A 22 year old bachelor Eric Roberts is mentioned. As we all know Christopher Reed became a super Superman and Armand Assante later took over his part in Stevenson's "Kidnapped" Eric Robert's and Armand Assante's roads croosed as well, first in "Odyssey" and resently in the "Chaos Experiment" It says in the article: "Armand is rightly being proclaimed the newest star in the Hollywood firmament.." google.newspapers.archive
	June 21, 1979 Schenectady Gazette By Dan Di Nicola "Prophecy"	Armand Assante perfomes John Hawks a native indian in the horror movie. Smal article about the movie. Assante's name mentioned. It is'nt well recieved...but people are still mad about it, and it sells well. After you checked the aticle go a little to the right, there you see an add for the movie. google.newspapers/archive stil works
	June 27, 1979 The Calgary Herald by Fred Haesker Armand Assante in "Prophecy" Review	Armand Assante performes a young native indian fighting a monster created by polution... With black and white photo of Armand Assante in a scene form the movie. GoogleNews/Archive
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