It occurred to me tonight, as I was standing on the stage at the Dreamland Theater, rehearsing Friday’s show, that it had been a while since I’d posted anything on the site about Andy Kaufman. And, here, to remedy that, is a short interview with television director James Burrows, on that infamous day when Andy visited the set of “Taxi” as Tony Clifton.
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Word is that Tony Danza wanted to beat the shit out of Andy that day when Clifton stopped production.
From Andy’s writing partner, Bob Zmuda:
http://www.gettingit.com/article/247
Have you read about the script that Kaufman and Zmuda wrote for Tony? It’s amazing.
You can read about the script here:
http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ReadingRoom/TonyCliftonStory.htm
Kaufman is alive. He’s Victoria Jackson.