Saturday 9 Who's the Boss

Brand New Life

Welcome to Saturday 9.

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Saturday 9: Brand New Life (The Theme from Who's the Boss) (1984)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Who's the Boss? is a sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1992. Were you a fan?

Yes, I liked it.

2) This week's song was composed by the show's producers, two men not known as songwriters. Have you ever tried your hand at songwriting?

No,   maybe hum a repetitive tune but not really  compose a melody.

3) The lyrics tell us that, as we go through life, it's not uncommon to "lose a dream or two." Do you agree? Have you ever had to give up on a dream? 

oh, yes,  I  always dreamed of  retiring to the lake  and live by the water....  alas,  it was way more expensive than I had hoped it would be.. I never understood how others of my acquaintance  worked that one out...

4) Who's the Boss? was about a highly-paid executive who hires a housekeeper. In the 1980s, it was unusual because the exec was a woman and the housekeeper was a man. Do you believe a man can be as good at housework as a woman? 

I don't see why not...  Around my house, hubs does a great job... We  share  and it gets done!

5) Though the show's star, Tony Danza, graduated from University of Dubuque and was prepared to be a teacher, he got sidetracked. Back in New York, he boxed and tended bar and fell into acting. He finally did teach in 2010, taking over a 10th grade English class. How many different occupations have you held?

2...  One  working at GC Murphy through high school and college...  taught me I did not want to do that all my life!  Then  taught school for 30 years.

6) On the show, his daughter was played by Alyssa Milano. When she was a teenager, she rebelled against the show's producers by cutting off her long hair and wearing a pixie style. Were you a rebellious teen?

No,  my mother was  pretty strict in a loving way,  but I would never go agaisnt her.

7) "The Boss" was Judith Light, who had been known to TV audiences from her work on One Life to Live. She met Robert Desiderio on the set of the soap opera and they have been married more than 34 years. Tell us where one of your romances got started.

Hubs and I really got our start  because our economics teacher  seated our class in abc order  and we ended up sittrng beside one another..  I hadn't  really  seen him much before that....  then when I did  I was impressed with his  cute looks, but especially how clean and polished he was. Loved his  very  polished weejuns ...  he took really great  care ..... meticulous you might say...  so I asked him to borrow his pen,, and I've been borrowing it ever since!

8) The show -- rebroadcast with subtitles -- was a hit in Italy, where it was known as Casalingo Superpiù (Super Housekeeper). Say something to us in Italian.

Ciao!

9) Random question -- Have you more recently watched the sun rise or set?

Set!