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Still, it was more than a decade before he got a call from a producer--Jonathon Komack Martin, the son of Chico's creator. Komack Martin and his partner, actress Sandra Bullock, wanted to do a Latino Beverly Hillbillies, an idea they mercifully dropped after seeing Lopez's act. "You can see he fought to get where he is, yet he is hilarious," says Bullock. "He has a way of hiding his pain, but you can also...
Hired away from ABC by NBC last January, at a reported salary of $1 million a year, Silverman has assumed enormous, almost mythical dimensions in an industry noted for its downbeat cynicism. "Freddie is going to change the face of network television," proclaims Producer James Komack (Welcome Back, Kotter...
...ethnic-based act worked on New York's club circuit too, which led to his first national appearance on the Jack Paar show. Then, in December 1973, his stand-up routine on the Tonight Show thrust him into the big leagues: he had caught the eye of James Komack, who was casting his generation-and ethnic-gap sitcom. With Chico a winner, Prinze had reached...
...Freddie's life. It was an explosion. It's tough to walk off a subway at age 19 and then step out of a Rolls-Royce the next day. He was in a life-style that's very unusual for a 22-year-old." Producer Komack, 20 years his elder, became a close confidant. Says he: "Freddie saw nothing around that would satisfy him. He would ask me, 'Is this what it is? Is this what it's all about...
...Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into himself. But he would recover. He would joke, have fun, kibitz around. Then the next day he would be depressed again." Says Komack: "His real despondency, whether he could articulate it or not, concerned the questions: 'Where do I fit in? Where is my happiness?' I would tell him, 'God, Freddie, your happiness is right here. You're a star.' He'd say, 'No, that...
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