TWO TON TONY
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TWO TON TONY |
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Original
screenplay by Ken Pisani
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  Ken Pisani
is a former sports producer and writer (including Sports Illustrated and two Olympics), earning two Emmy nominations for compelling
true sports stories. His original play, Glove Story, a tragic-comic tale of two retired former boxing champions, was named
a finalist for the 2009 Julie Harris Playwright Award and the 2005 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. |
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"Two Ton" Tony Galento was a heavyweight boxer
who trained on beer and spaghetti and did his roadwork with a cigar in his mouth. He also delivered ice, hauling enormous
blocks that gave him his prodigious strength; and owned a saloon in Orange, New Jersey, where he kept a BEAR that
he boxed for the amusement of his drunken, raucous patrons. Loud, vulgar and impossibly gregarious, Tony eventually found
his way to Hollywood where he acted alongside Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Gypsy Rose Lee (who tried to have him fired
for giving her a "hot foot" between takes).
And
one night in an unlikely title fight against the greatest heavyweight who ever lived, Tony proved he was more than just a
fat, beer-guzzling clown from Orange, New Jersey.
To request the screenplay or contact Ken Pisani (please include your name and company): |
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