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Joseph Bologna, 'My Favorite Year' Actor and Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter, Dies at 82
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 13, 2017 | Mike Barnes

Posted on 08/14/2017 8:05:20 AM PDT by EveningStar

Joseph Bologna, an actor, playwright and screenwriter who was so memorable as the egotistical King Kaiser in the 1982 comedy classic My Favorite Year, has died. He was 82.

Bologna died Sunday morning at City of Hope hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer three years ago, said his wife of 52 years, actress and screenwriter Renee Taylor.

Bologna received an Oscar nomination for adapted screenplay, shared with his wife and David Zelag Goodman, for his work on Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). The couple had first written it for Broadway in a 1968 production directed by Charles Grodin.

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To: GOPsterinMA

I seemed to recall when he did “Rio” that his aunt (a famous chef) scolded him for making a “porno.”


21 posted on 08/14/2017 4:06:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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:)


22 posted on 08/14/2017 4:28:13 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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