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Hollywood Hype
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"Don Jon" (2013): In this obvious cinematic rip-off of MTV's meatheads-and-sluts show "Jersey Shore," actor Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, in his film directing debut, stars as an intellectually challenged "Joisey" boy who has no problem bedding the ladies but
who can't find full emotional or sexual happiness unless masturbating to endless computer porn.
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Joe Truth
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In addition to the dese-dem-dose characters, Tony Danza plays Don Jon's "Italian" father, a crude, foul-mouthed, anti-Semitic,
borderline pedophile (he cops a feel off of his son's date when he finally brings her home to meet the family). In real life, Danza has a loving
relationship with both his son and grandson, as evidenced by a cookbook they co-wrote together. Nowhere in the text does Danza relate stories
of shouting "Eff you" in his son's face, as his character does to Don Jon in the film, endlessly (and in front of his wife and daughter, to boot).
Danza previously created two of the most likable Italian American characters in television history: the dumb-but-decent Tony Banta in "Taxi"
and the loving father Tony Micelli in "Who's The Boss"? He has now created one of the most grotesque parodies of an Italan
American father in over eighty years of motion picture history. Why did Gordon-Levitt write such a role and why did Danza consent to play it?
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