Armand about acting
	From 1990 - 1999
	INTERVIEWs WITH ARMAND ASSANTE
	Armand Assante worked with following movies/TV-productions in 1990 - 1999: (The movies that has an interview or an article connected with it is linked here)  "Q&A" "Fever" "Mambo Kings"   "1492 Conquest of Paradise"  "Hoffa"  "Fatal Instinct"  "Blind Justice" "Trial by Jury"  "Judge Dredd"  "Kidnapped"  "Striptease" "Gotti"    Armand Assante: Proud of his journeyman status     "The Odyssey"     "Intimate portrait: Jacqueline Bisset"    "The Hunley"  "Rashi - A Light after the Dark Ages"   Red Carpet Interview at Premier for Hoffa See also: "Passion and Paradise"  Frenche interview "Le Lundi"   Inside Hollywood interview   exclusive interview American Film Magazine 1992 (about "Mambo Kings") Armand Assante guest star in Jay Leno's "Tonight Show"
	About this site At this page you can find links to PDF-files with resumes from articles and photo scannings of some of the original interviews given by Armand Assante through time, as he talked about the roles he has been performing....... Original articles are marked with Very good and fullfilling interviews are marked with a huge A (a-grade) for their quality and interesting content. New but rather old interviews or articles are announced below as "New articles or announcement posted where ?" and refers to the decade in question. Lately most newspapers and magazins have scanned old articles and brought them on the internet.
		Where can you see a clip of a movie or a trailer ? Got to this decade's filmography and look for videos or trailer next to the movies (1990 - 1999)
	May 6, 1990 Los Angeles Times by Pat H. Broeske Interview Armand Assante "Q&A" and his guest appearance at Jey Leno's "Tonight Show"	Armand Assante was a guest star in May 1990 in the "Tonight Show" and from other information I was informed that Armand Assante laughed so much, that he actually never said anything. Jack Leno is to funny...or ? He tells us about his role as Bobby Texador in "Q&A" At the time at this small interview Armand Assante is 40 years old and live at his farm with his wife and two small daughters. And it is here declared...he is NOT frenche ! latimes.com
	1990 now with resume in english january 25 "Interview with Armand Assante at his farm" Frenche Magazin Le Lundi by Denis Monette	Armand Assante was interviewed in his home by frenche journalist Denise Monette, Magazin Le Lundi...right after his succesfull part in "Unfaithfully Yours"  ......and about to work with several movies among others "Q&A"... This article is illustrated with several  photos of the farm seen from the inside, Armand and his daughters Anya 6 and Alessandra 1 year old. Short resume in english (Opens in PDF) Photo scanning of the original article (Opens in PDF) Language: frenche Read also the second interview from Le Lundi in 1996 Frenche articles donated by german collector and great fan, translated by frenche fan.
	August 5, 1990 The News Journal (ref: Smart Magazine) Armand Assante "Once a womanizer" Short notice, reference from SmartMagazine	You better take your dreams serious in time. Armand Assante did anyway. He admits as he was younger he was a womanizer. Analyzing on of his scarry dreams, he came on better ideas...anyway he met the dream woman Karen McArn and got married. news.google.com
	October 23, 1991 The Milwaukee Sentinel Small interview with Armand Assante While doing "Q&A"	Are sugar, alcohol, drugs, sex and TV your staminna ? Armand Assante was about to die as he performed his role as Monroe in "Jack Ripper" from collaps of hypoglycemic schock. One he started his day with 7 cups of rich black expresso...but now he has changed lifestyle, diet and what he drinks. Herbal tea comes before decaf coffe... read more..... google.newspapers.com/archives
	December, 1991 GQ Magasin by Stephanie Mansfield Get in the right mood, as you read the article listen to the music or watch the video from "Mambo Kings" with the song:"Bella Maria de mi alma".or .."Beatifull Maria of my soul" Armand and Antinio together You Tube	While Armand worked with the Mambo Kings he gave an interview to GQ Magasin, itīs written by Stephanie Mansfield december 1991. Read a resume of the article. She writes detailed about every thing that meets her eye on her way to Armands farm......(Open in PDF) Photo (Open in PDF) Get the full interview in 8 individually JPEGfiles  One of the best interviews made with Armand Assante. He tells about his family, how Ainellio Assante (his grandfather) came to Amercia and how his father and mother met one another, a very romantic story.... You learn about Armand's brothers (his uncles) and his sisters Andrea and Denise... Articles more than 20 years old are no longer protected by the copyright. If we are informed wrongly, If asked by the copyright holders to remove any materials due to copyright infringement, we will politely comply with their request immediatly.
	Photos of Armand Assante from August 1992 (Opens in PDF 2 pages)
	February 29, 1992 by Anemona Hartocollis Los Angeles Times Archive Aticle/interview with Armand Assante "Mambo Kings"	This halfway article and interview is a bit different since itīs describing the situation in a basement rehearsal room before the New York Party and and Premier of his part in Mambo Kings as Cesar while Armand Assante is drumming with Tito Puente. Very nervous he explains he has'nt touched the drums since May and he is soon to create some Movie-Magic infront of an audience... He is not very self-conscious.  Besides the telling about his role in "Mambo Kings" we are informed briefly about other roles as: "Private Benjamin" his Napoleon role and "Jack The Ripper", "Passion and Paradise" not to forget "Q&A". Armand Assante is 41 as this interview takes place. He insists that he is always miscast. In real life, he says, he is more like the painfully brooding Nestor of the movie than the swashbuckling Cesar. This music is not running in his blood he claims and says he was more into Credence Clearwater or Shopin. He hanged out in Cuban Clubs to get it in his blood. And today we must say he succeded to do so. The drumming-scene in "Mambo Kings" is amazing. 2 pages latimes.com Find "Mambo Kings" at "His Life" page, write the movie title in the searchfield (Ctrl + f) and watch the "drumming-scene" at YouTube.
	March 22, 1992 The Sunday Gazette By Douglas J. Rowe The Associated Press Interview with Armand Assante "Mambo Kings" Two brothers in a bus dreaming about a new life...	His grandfather tried to get to America first time at the age of nine... After doing "Mambo Kings" and another recent succes "Q&A" this interviewer catch up with Armand Assante about a couple of issues many talked about. First of all: "It was hard to get out of that playboy image, because that's the way people percieved me, and in fact, many people thought that's who I was" Armand Assante 42 y as this interview takes place, is asked whether his looks or name will create trouble for his career. But he does'nt live with that idea as a cloud hanging over his head. Besides from changing Armando into Armand he says: "I always thought it was more American to keep my real name, being Italian-American, I never empowered that idea that I should change my name or anything, or try to make everybody believe that I was whoever !" Many actors tryed to fill out the part as Cesar Castillo but Glimcher choose Armand Assante because he had that kind of energy and life force that he felt would best represent the character. Armand Assante also tells about how he had to immerse himself into the part by spending time with the real "Mambo Kings" as Tito Puente. Most interesting it is, that Assante tells more about his granfather here, since his story some how relates to the plot in "Mambo Kings" about two brothers American dream. His grandfather tried to escape poverty in Neaples at the at 9, he was discovered as the ship got to Liverpool and got returned to Italy. He finally succeeded to come to America and at the age of 30 he was a succesfull restaurant owner and then the depression came and took it all away. Read more.... GoogleNews/Archive As a bonus, you can read an interview with Tito Puente right above (page 34)   this interview with Armand Assante
	April 14, 1992 The Desert News By Patricia O'Haire Posters all over town with Brody Armand and lispstick kisses A fan sended me this below..that was proberly how the posters at bus' stop's looked back then.....!	Article written as the was advertising all over town for the upcomming "Mambo Kings" It talks about the movie, but starts with the description of the posters that are displayed at bustops...with a larger than-life photo of Armand lightning a cigarette, looking at the passers-by through heavy lidded eyes. But that' not enough, there are lipstick kisses at them as well...made by weman that couldīnt help themselfs...one south of his nose. (How fare south ?) google.newsapers/archive
	May 8, 1992 New York Times Cronicle by Nadine Brozan Armand Assante serves food for the homeless	HELP and Partnership for the Homeless. Invitation to an expensive ballroom dinnerparty to collect money for the homeless. The 400 invited guests will have an impressive list of waiters one of them: Armand Assante NewYorkTimesArchive
	November ?, 1992 Cosmopolitan Magazin "The Look That Kill" very interesting interview wtih Armand Assante by Marilyn Stasio	Just before Armand Assante was going to performe yet another sinister charachter in "Trial by Jury" (being Rusty Pirone) he was interviewed by Marilyn Stasio from Cosmopolitan magazin nov 1992 ...?  The titel is: "Armand Assante beyond the looks that kill" This is when Armand is called unnervingly attractive (resume) !  (Open in PDF) Here are a scanning of the real article (opens in PDF)...we do not have the cover of the issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazin from that time...but the photo to left is taken around that period. donation from a devoted fan Armand Assante tells her about how his grandfather Ainiello came to live in America.. Articles more than 20 years old are no longer protected by the copyright. If we are informed wrongly, If asked by the copyright holders to remove any materials due to copyright infringement, we will politely comply with their request immediatly.
	In may 1998 I found a page in the internet from 1992 (?) while Armand was doing "Mambo Kings" with Antonio Banders. The place is called: banderas-mall.com and still excists allthough theese words found then, has been taken down. (Note:Antonio Banderas has had a racketier career ever since his performance in this film, he was allready a wellknown actor in his homeland: Spain and married (with children) his fans understood how to promote him, as shows this banderas-mall. Armand was allways just focused at his art and not a businessman at all *webmaster) Armand Assantes commentīs on Antonio was then: "Heīs one of the most gifted actorīs Iīve come across,...(Open in PDF)
	January/February 1992 American Film Magazin by ?? Exclusive interview with Armand Assante about his role in "Mambo Kings"	Wolf Schneider (?) from American Film Magazin also took his interviewing Armand Assante during the production of "Mambo Kings", his interview reveiled in that magazins January/February issue 1992 (resume in PDF 2pages). A scanning of the real article also in PDF (it's heavy might take a while) sorry for the quality or rather lack of...but it's possible to read if  you read in 125 % donated by devoted fan Articles more than 20 years old are no longer protected by the copyright. If we are informed wrongly, If asked by the copyright holders to remove any materials due to copyright infringement, we will politely comply with their request immediatly.
	1992 July/August interview made by Robin Willing INSIDE HOLLYWOOD Armand Assante also talk's about his role in "Mambo Kings" here.....	A really wonderfull article to....with photos of his family and a little of his New York Upstate farm. (a short resume comes later) "Reality And Illusion" Photo scanning of the original article opens i PDF One page is thou missing...hope you will get something out of the rest... Articles more than 20 years old are no longer protected by the copyright. If we are informed wrongly, If asked by the copyright holders to remove any materials due to copyright infringement, we will politely comply with their request immediatly.
	November 6, 1992 Lakeland Ledger "1492 Conqeust of Paradise" Armand Assante as Sanchez small notice	Armand Assante gets compliments for his part in "1492 Conquest of Paradise" First time he works with Ridley Scott. google.newspapers/archive
	November 12, 1992 InTv TV interview Red Carpet Hoffa Premier Armand Assante	A wonderfull clip with a TV interview with Armand Assante at the movie Premier for Hoffa in Los Angeles. He talks about the movie, Hoffa himself...wheter the movie made him more sympathic....? Armand Assante performed Carole D'Allesandro a fictive mobster in the very movie. thoughtequity.com And as well at YouTube (the date here is wrong)
	December 19, 1992 New Straits Times by Joan Lau Review/article Armand Assante "1492 Conquest of Paradise"	Thoughts over Ripley Scotts "1492 Conquest of Paradise" by a pretty disappointed viewer. Armand Assante brifly mentioned. "...Armand Assante is brilliant as the scheeming courtier who finally acknowledges Columbus' greatness......he is the only person who learmed something (besides Columbus) she is refering to him as Sanchez. google.newspapers/archive
	June 27, 1993 The News TV annoucement Armand Assante in "Passion and Paradise"	A true life mystery about the illfated Sir Harry Oakes who gets killed. Armand Assante is an ex-gigolo Alfred De Marigny that hits on Oaks daughter and later merries her and gets a suspect after the murder of his father-in-law. google.newspapers/archive see also: previous decade, when the movie was aired first time under February 19, 1989
	November 21, 1993 The Durant Daily Democrat By Frank Lovece Article/interview Armand Assante as Ned Ravin in "Fatal Instinct"	Itīs about Armand Assante's latest comedy movie "Fatal Instinct" but of course many of his other roles are mentioned. Assante sits in an old-world dinning room, looking very new-world in a black turtleneck shirt and lightly checked gray suit, occasionally picking out a berry from a fruitplate..... He is telling about how the came up with the scene with him in red, highhealed shoes... And concerning the quesstion about whether he is handsome ? Armand Assante says: "I never saw myself as goodlooking. I look like my family - My fater's brothers and I look like we're all brothers !" So they all look handsome in that family. Anya is 10 and Alesandra 5 years old as this interview was made. GoogleNews/Archive
	December 5, 1993 The Nevada Daily Mail article "Fatal Instinct"	Armand Assante in highhealed red shoes poking around...yes, he makes fun. Armand Assante in an unexspected role Ned Ravine in "Fatal Instinct" google.newspapers.com/archive
	September 2, 1994 The Free Lance-Star by Michael Szymanski article but Armand Assante mentioned "Blind Justice"	Itīs actually a bit funny. The actress Elisabeth Shue wanted to do a nude scene to help change her sweet ingenue image. Armand Assante walks in on her while she undresses. Sure but "Armand Assante" is almost blind, so why bother...?? I always wondered why she was undressing since the man saw daylight as a mole. google.newspapers/archive
	September 16, 1994 The Milwaukee Journal By Jane Horwitz Armand Assante as Rusty Pirone "Trail by Jury"	Allmost a prediction...but here it says: A big- time gangster (Armand Assante) on trial for murder, threatens to kill the child of a juror unless she votes to acquit. As the don in the dock, Assante makes a dapper, Gottiesque villian ans in fact, all the performances are solid in this pedestrian film with fashionably cunical view of the criminal justice system. google.newspapers/archive
	GOTTI Note: If you are a new fan of Armand Assante and may be donīt know so much about now-a-days American history, it has to be mentioned, that John Gotti died of cancer in jail (June10th, 2002). While Armand got this role, he allready was convicted and jailed, but still alive. John Gotti was that popular in New York that he would run for mayor and he could easily had won an election for all the things he did for the poor and usually ovelooked people in the ghettos of New York. Thatīs when it became urgent to stop his career, with or without any solid proofīs of his criminal activities. Thatīs why a massmurderer as "The Rat" Gravano simply could tell the truth or the un-truth about his boss, to get him convicted.(more likely free himself) Gravano never payed for his confessed crimes and he and his family got new identity and a whole new life. It came clear in his own confession, that he often had wacked people and taken over their business without any orders what so ever from Gotti, sparing him for the details...the questionable things is after all...how plausibly truth is this mans words ?! (webmaster: Gitte 2005)
	March 3, 1996 South Coast Today by Luaine Lee. Interview with Armand Assante about his role in "Gotti"	Around 1996-97 before doing Gotti Armand is giving an interview to The Standard Times with the title: "Armand Assante: Proud of his journeyman status" He probably would never be crowned goodwill ambassador of Hollywood, but Armand Assante doesn't care. Biting the hand that feeds him is not an act of rebellion but a reconciliation of sorts........ "I live on a farm outside New York. I never hung around here. I never really stayed in to create any relationships or forge some career, both on a creative and a political level. I never did." Though Mr. Assante has been on the cusp of "stardom," he never quite made it. He doesn't think his declarations of independence had anything to do with that. ...... "No, I loved every minute of not being part of it," he grins. "I don't want the pressure. The only pressure I want is what I put on myself through my own work. I'm not fond of Hollywood.".... "I was a good journeyman actor," he says. "I'm a jobber. I never pursued a career relentlessly. I was always the guy they called when somebody dropped out." ................. In 1994 Armand Assante separates from Karen Mc Arn Assante after 12 years of marriage. In his interview given to The Standard Times just before doing Gotti he says about the breaking apart his family: "To be married to someone whoīs working in the film industry is a precipitous journey to take. And if you take that that journey, you have to be able to put up with the parameters of their life, which can be a roller coaster"... "You love what you do, you are cursed with it and then you get known for being cursed with it. Then you find yourself in with a lot of other people with the same curse " Read more,,,, southcoasttoday.com
	August 16, 1996 The Union Democrat New York "Gotti" Armand Assante about the TV movie	First he gained weight for Gotti now he is loosing it again to perfome Odysseus so he eats tuna. He want's to get back to his normal 167 pounds....an interview mostly about the part as Gotti... GoggleNews/Archive.com
	August 28, 1996 Star-News By Luaine Lee Armand Assante is proud of Journeyman status with photo The article has been introduced in several magazins and newspapers (se above)	He's Got It Armand Assante has been on the crusp of stardom, he never quite made it. He does'nt think his declarations of independence had anything to do with it. google.newspapers/archive
	Trivia about the real John Gotti Source: The Times Tribune	John Gotti was born Oct. 27, 1940, and died of throat cancer June 10, 2002. He earned this particular nickname because prosecutors had trouble getting charges against him to stick. He was convicted April 2, 1992, on charges including five killings, due largely to the testimony of the Gambino family’s second-in-command, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. He was sentenced to life without parole. His 12-year-old son, Frank Gotti, was struck and killed by neighbor John Favara’s car after he rode his bike into the road March 18, 1980. The neighbor may have escaped criminal charges but he disappeared July 28, 1980, and was last seen being pushed into a van full of men.
	August 11, 1996 New York Times By Ralph Blumenthal Armand Assante is short interview about the making of "Gotti"	Armand Assante even gained 35 pounds to do Gotti. ''I did a tremendous amount of homework.''Armand Assante said in a telephone interview as the film was going through its final cuts. He said he talked to Mr. Gotti's flamboyant and controversial lawyer, Bruce Cutler (who is also sharply rendered in the movie, by Al Waxman, though Mr. Cutler had wanted to portray himself), listened to tapes and talked to people who grew up with Mr. Gotti, although not to Mr. Gotti himself, who was not made available. NyYorkTimes/archive.com
	August 14, 1996 DAILY NEWS Gossip By George Rush and Joanna Molly with Bard Jones Armand Assante short interview about his Gotti role at `21' for the flick's premiere party.	Scroll down to the section BODY LIKE GOTTI'S I gained 35 pounds in seven weeks," the actor said of the HBO film, which airs Saturday. "I split every pair of pants I own. I wanted to physically embody [John] Gotti. He had a linebacker's build, very broad shoulders. His weight was in his shoulders as well as his gut. Gotti would have made a great linebacker. I felt an obligation to Gotti not to use padding and to do the role with integrity. You could say I'm a method actor Armand Assante is there with two bodyguards, was he afraid of hit-men ? No...lawyers ! Read more... nydailynews.com
	August 16, 1996 The Detroit News trying to find this article again	Armand Assante gave an interview to The Detroit News, with the title:  "Assante wrestled taking the role of a Mafia boss" "HBO pursued me for a long time---But I was very reluctant to do it.........(Open in PDF).
	May 18, 1997 Allegheny Times TV Times annoncement of Homer's "Odyssey" with photo of Armand Assante	This it how it looked .... ....as they introduced the upcomming of the "Odyssey" in TV. NBC...tonight...many years ago... but still a wonderfull TV series worth watching. google.newspapers/archive
	May 18, 1997 New York Times Coverstory Armand Assante in "Odyssey"	"....Sitting on the beach in costume, waiting for a rainmaking machine to be hoisted into place by a towering crane, Mr. Assante said he had prepared for the role by reading the entire epic aloud and plowing through several books analyzing its plot and characters...." ''Odysseus was a liar,'' he said. ''He was a con man, a hero, a rake, a pirate who killed hundreds of people. In modern cinema you can compare him to someone like Patton or the Godfather. He's not always right, but you always want to look at him. ''If I have an interpretation of the character, it's as the first mythological Greek hero who stood in defiance of the gods. He's saying, 'I will not leave my life in your hands.' He's very much in the face of the gods. He's trying to take charge of his own fate.'' Read more...2 pages nytimes.com/archive
	Also at that time he was doing Gotti, Armand Asante gave an interview to Mr. Showbiz I found this at the internet 20th of may 1998, He says about his work as an actor: "A proffesion, I donīt recommend at all.......(Open in PDF)...
	May 22, 1997 Gotti him self	Talking about Gotti...Iīve found this at his homepage. Gotti wrote: "This page was formerly part of HBOīs website ! They took it down ! I put it back up !" I found it the 22nd of May 1997 (New Archive (Tribune) August 1996) There is an interesting interview with Armand here made by HBO Armand says: This film raises some serious questions ...!"(Opens in PDF)
	From the same interview as above HBO also interviewed Anthony Quinn, who performes Gottiīs mentor in the movie: "Gotti"	Anthony Quinn says about Armand Assante: "Before this picture was over Armand called me and said, `Gee, `what do you think about me playing Gotti?`and I said, Ū think youīre perfect` he said: `Well, isīnt Gotti gonna get mad ?` I said: `No, he wonīt. Iīll put in a good word for you. As a matter of fact, I think heīll be rather to have you do it !
	1996 Le Lundi (Frenche Magazin) "Interview with Armand Assante at his farm"	The year is unsearten but itīs a qualified guess from Armand Assantes age mentioned in the article and from what he was working on at the time.... His two daughters are 14 and 9 years old as this frenche Magazin vistit's the farm. Armand Assante talks about the demanding task of doing "Odyssey" and how he gain alot of weight for his role as Gotti..he tells about the separation from Karen McArn and how they became good freinds after they lived in each their place. He sees his daughters in the weekends and at their Hollydays.... The original interview in frenche in a photoscanning (Opens in PDF) A resume in english (opens in PDF) Donated by German fan and translated by frenche fan, 2008
	1997	Link to external page about Armand Assantes involment in figting against the landmines: "Roots of Peace: Turning Mines into Vines"
	May 18, 1997 Reading Eagle Parade Magazine By James Brady Armand Assante in interview about his work with "Odyssey"	Armand Assante states here, in this very fullfilling interview, about the "Odyssey": "The problem of tackling the "Odyssey" is that it's this great epic poem, nor your typical kitchen drama, it's an emotional story that you have to demythologize. Odysseus is a real man. More than 2000 years after it was written, we still have dysfunctional families, we still sacrifice family for our careers." Armand Assante was determinated to work with Andrei Konchalovski, he knew of his other work. "We worked six days a week, 90 hours, and did it all in 14 weeks !" With Photo. google.com/newspapers/archive
	In May 1997 Armand gives an inteview to The New Times with the title: Armand Assante tired of Hollywood glitter By Luainee Lee Knight-Ridder/tribune Information Services. Armand talks bittersweet and somehow morbid about his carreer and says: " I was a good journeyman actor.......(Open in PDF)......
	Note: If you like to kow more about Homerīs Odyssey and the mythological characthers, here is an easy understood educational page.
	May 18, 19, 1997 Trying to find this article again "The Odyssey" Armand Assante TV-mini Series	In May around the 18th and 19th "The Odyssey" was in the air to the first time, the year before(1996) Armand Assante started working in the south of Europe under the creative īhandsīof  the director: Andrei Konchalovsky and more than a handfull of big stars as: Greta Scacchi, and Isabella Rosselini. At the www. image-entertainment.com I first found this interview about the doing of "The Odyssey" the 15 th of May 1998, it hadīnt yet reached the danish borders, but within few years 8 Mill. TV-viewers saw this outstanding filmatized version of Homerīs epic saga. (Open in PDF)
	Exhibition made in connection with the presentation of "The Odyssey" in Televison.
	The 2nd May 1998 I find news about the Greek Revial of The Odyssey, its written for www.totaltv.com by Stuart Matranga, that starts out by telling that the american actor that performes the leading role as Odysseus claims that Homerīs Epic is: "...a combination of Walt Disney and Shakespeare !" This interview is from 1997 thou. Armand says about Homer: "He writes about modern man. Nothing has changed (since five centuries before Jesus) The dysfunctionally family; our questions about what is community, morality, justice, fidelity; our attractions to temtations !" "Man is nothing without God" Armand says here. "Man is nothing without a morality. Whatīs so oncredible and so oble about it all is that this is the first emergence of manīs consciousness. All the episodes that happen to Odysseus are methaphores that resonate today. We all have our own Cyclops, our own bigotry or one-eyed-ness, our own myopia that paralyzes us---and weīre terrifyed of it. We all have to drive out the eye of our own Cyclops in life. The Odyssey---not unlike the bible--is a piece one could meditate upon for oneīs entire life."
	In 1999 Armand Assante's voice can be heard in "Rashi - A light af the Dark Ages". This production is mentioned here about his art, because in dispaite a being born a chatholic Armand here support the Jewish history in an educationnaly and intertaining product less spoken of . Itīs an one hour animated historical drama produced by Berel Wein, Ashley Lazarus and Allan Leicht with Leonard Nimoy as Rashi and Armand Assante as the Inkmann. In the 11th Century a man living in the time of the Crusadors, comment the bible and defend his peopleīs right to spiritual choice and freedom. To understand Rashi, is to understand the story of the Jews. You can see a small trailer for that prodution here ....from VideoDetective.com
	June 17, 1999 The Vindicator Armand Assante "The Hunley"	In this small article/interview Armand Assante tells us how horrific it was to make the scenes in the submarine. "You could'nt get out because the camera crew was litterary bolted in. You can't get out; you can't get up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through !" Armand Assante says. GoogleNews/Archive
	June 19, 1999 Lakeland Ledger Small article Armand Assante about the making of "The Hunley"	Armand Assante plays the leading role (Lt. George Dixon) and share the lamplight with Donald Sutherland in this, based on reality heroic deed story The Hunley.org.(site about the real event, where you can see how the real Dixon looked and read about the tragic.) Armand Assante says he's allways been fascinated by the Civil War. And he learned more about it starring in "The Hunley" "The experience wa very, very powerfull. It's like getting into a double bolier. Those guys were getting into a human coffin" "With that hatch closed and water comming up around us it was hurrifying" says Armand Assante. google.com.newspapers/archive
	June 21, 1999 Daily News of Los Angeles CA Armand Assante Gaugin	"Assante has roles as Gaugin and Poe on his Horizon" "I spent the month of February in Tahiti and neighboring Islands researching Gaugin's Story..." says Armand Assante NewsBank.com
	1998-1999 ? "All American" november/december issue "Armand Assante is not who you think he is" Article interview with Armand Assante About his role in "The Hunley"	After doing Gotti og before performing one of the leading roles in "The Hunley" Armand gives an interview to Movieline magazin it could be in 1998-99 ? The interviewer asks mocking and patronizing unpolite (almost stupid questions) but Armand controls the dialog gently and only reply in a polite way. Among other statements .... he tells this: " I had a loving family, and in that way I was very lucky, because that saved me from some of the temtations "(resume) ...(Opens in PDF) Armand Assante says, that if he could have a wish come true, he would have loved to perform a role as the Polish Composer Chopin, The French Painter Gauguin or the Amercian writer Edgar Allan Poe ! And we as his fans...we have loved to see that...!! Photo scanning of the real article (Opens in PDF)
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