Saturday 9- Brand New Life

Brand New Life

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 loved 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

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?  I think that has happened a few times in my life.  It has all worked out though.

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 actually do.  My guys seem to need to be told what to do, but they can do it.  

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?  I think 4...I worked at McDonald's in high school, I was a cashier at a grocery store during college, I worked many years with mentally handicapped people in supported living and now I teach kids.

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?  not really.  I was a little wild in college, but not in high school.
 
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.  I met some boyfriends at work and I met my husband at church.

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.  pizelles...I do not know any Italian which is weird because I had a friend who is Italian and she never did share any language with me...I am just now realizing that.  Her mom made us pizelles though.  They are thin wafer cookies.

9) Random question -- Have you more recently watched the sun rise or set?  This summer, set.  I see both when I am working.