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Armand Assante
Interview
"I want Freedom"
by Miki Dorsey
In this period Armand Assante was doing Soap Opera's as "How to Survive a Marrigde " and "Little Doctors"
He is performing in Daytime Saop or has just finished being in "Little Doctors".
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. It´s 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.
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 !"
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"I want Freedom" original article from 1975 open in PDF)
Karen McArn and Armand Assante
was married
Interview with Armand Assante
US MAGAZIN february
by Lois Armstrong
Armand Assante also tells about his role in "Unfaithfully Yours "
Karen was in the theatre as Armand Assante performed his first version of Napoleon in "Kingdoms" it sadly did'nt run very long.
This is a scanning of the original article in black/white...opens in PDF
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GOSSIP Magazine
by Arthur Stern
Interview with Armand Assante
in his "home" in Los Angeles.
"I´m not an easy person to live with !"
"I really like to be alone. I like my solitude " And back then Armand Assante declared himself to be:
"Not a romantic, but rather an ultra-realist !...almost to the point of scepticisme "
"I have exspectations of me, but not the outcome of things. That´s what I mean, being 'an ultra-realist'"
Original scanning of the Gossip interview (opens in PDF)
3 pages.
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The News Journal
(ref: Smart Magazine)
Armand Assante
"Once a womanizer"
Short notice, reference from SmartMagazine
Armand Assante did anyway.
He admits as he was younger he was a womanizer. Analyzing on of his scarry dreams, he came on better ideas...anyway he met the dream woman Karen McArn and got married.
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GQ Magazine
by Stephanie Mainsfield
While Armand drives the interviewer to an nearby Inn to have lunch (his wife, with kids are at the moment in Florida) he says:
"I would´nt want to live with me....(Open in PDF)
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Cosmopolitan Magazin
Maryly Stasio
"Trail by Jury"
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Shakespeare
He often calles good dramatic stories "Shakespearean"...if you look carefully you will find expressions in Armand Assante's language that are medieval...proberly picked up from reading alot of Shakespeare.
In his young days as he performed theatre plays he had the part as Romeo (some places is syas he was performing Tybalt ?) in "Romeo & Juliet"
He often mentiones Shakespeare and has through time dreamed of doing part's as to ex. Richard III.
In this article/interview from Paris while doing Napoleon he talkes about Shakespeare as well.
November 8, 1987
Lawrence Journal-World
Paris
By Jerry Buck
With the title: Actor finds Shakepearean heroism in Napoleon
"If Shakespeare had lived he would have written solely about Napoleon" Assante states "He has all the tragic flaws of every great hero Shakespeare wrote about - Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Richard III. There're all in this person. But to write one piece about him is impossible" says Armand Assante.
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Armand Assante at the frontcover of
"cigar aficionado"
He also loves a good cigar.
From his interview, given to "Cigar Aficionado" april 2008 issue we bring theese quotes:
"I live an incredible life. Incredible. I've lived the life of 10 men. I've been blessed with great health, great stamina, and I live my life very intensely. That is, philosophically, just who I am," says Assante, studying the end of his cigar.
"I think that when you live at a certain level of intensity, you have to counterbalance.
"I think the intensity of working as an actor has a price. No matter what they tell you, there's a very intense price to pay. My life with my kids, my home life, my family life...I would have had a bigger career if I'd put my career first, but I put my life first and by that I mean that I really, really enjoy my life."
"I work as much as I do so as to live life on my own terms. I want the freedom to go anywhere on the planet at any given moment with my family or my loved ones or just completely alone. I consider that freedom my principal obligation to the work I am in as well as to myself.
"I live on the edge." Assante pauses for a moment and then grins. "And I love the edge."
Link to interview....
Armand Assante only got one horse now
March, 2010...Armand Assante tells that he only got one horse now..
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Lone Oak Farm 2009
Russian Andre Tan
visits Armand Assante at the Lone Oak farm
Fall 2009
The beatifull "Lone Oak Farm"
The farm is surrounded by 225-acre land, meadows and forrest. It was renovated by himself with the help from his father Sr.Armand Assante. He bought it in 1984 it was more than 200 years old. He allways felt it looked like an Currier and Ives painting.
We can agry on that.
Here Anya and Alesandra grew up and he first lived here with his wife Karen.
After their seperation in 1994 Karen and the children still visited the farm and often spend their hollydays here.
It's a very productive farm.
Armand Assante breeds young bulls, horses, German Sheperds, grow trees, chop wood, build bridges and roads not to mention the amacing work he did with the farm renovating it. He also have a swimming pool at the other side of the buildings.
It does not say much about this interview. We presume it was made Fall 2009 Armand Assante still had five horses.
They obviously talks about the his role as "Odysseus" and look at his collection of fine bows. The interview goes on in his "play-room" with the chessboard, the drum-set and the many memoirs he has collected from Africa and his many movie-roles.
We hazards through his bedroom that reveals he is watching movies in bed. That´s the best sleep I ever get. If you are kean enough you will spot the many framed photos hanging in the hallway in a long row. They are Armand Assante's own photographs taken through time.
We meet one of Armand Assante's fine breed German Shepards and a tiny Pug, I bet he is the most dangerous...!
It's all in russian, but still its interesting to watch the farm and the beautifull sourroundings upstate.
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