"Joey Pants" to get a Proclamation Tonight
at Hoboken Boys and Girls Club
Joey Pantoliano, a Hoboken native is scheduled to receive a Proclamation tonight December 7, 2010 from Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken at “An Evening with Two Guys from Hoboken”, honoring his efforts in the community. The event is at the Hoboken Boys and Girls Club at 123 Jefferson Street and he is scheduled to arrive at 5:00pm with the dinner and awards ceremony starting at 5:30PM.
Editor's Note: This story originally had mentioned that he would be getting a key to the City. Those haven't been given in out in quite so many years. Instead he will be receiving a proclamation instead with is the new standard in honoring Hoboken residents.
‘Joey Pants,’ as he is affectionately known, is a masterful character as seen in “Risky Business,” “The Goonies,” “La Bamba,” “Midnight Run,” "Bad Boys I and II," “Empire of the Sun,” “The Fugitive,” “The Matrix,” “Memento,” “Daredevil” and, finally, his portrayal of the eccentric mobster Ralphie Cifaretto in HBO’s landmark series “The Sopranos,” won him a 2003 Primetime Emmy Award.
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BIOGRAPHY- Joe Pantoliano:
Acclaimed actor, director, producer and best-selling author, Joe Pantoliano (affectionately known as Joey Pants) is celebrated for the richly-complex characters he has portrayed in over 100 film, television, and stage productions. His resume is filled with both critically acclaimed and commercially successful titles, a testament to his uncanny ability to pick (and make) a winner.
A favorite of master filmmakers like Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Davis, and the Wachowski brothers, Pantoliano’s busy career spans over three decades of memorable roles in films like “Risky Business,” “The Goonies,” “La Bamba,” “Midnight Run,” "Bad Boys I and II," “Empire of the Sun,” “The Fugitive,” “The Matrix,” “Memento,” “Daredevil” and “Percy Jackson & The Olympians.” On television, his portrayal of eccentric mobster “Ralphie Cifaretto” in HBO’s landmark series “The Sopranos,” netted him a Best-Supporting Actor Emmy in 2003.
Other television work has included a lead role in the popular show EZ Streets where he was awarded the Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series by the Viewers for Quality Television Awards in 1997, as well as prominent roles in Arli$$, NYPD Blue, Outer Limits, and Roswell, among many others, and he produced and starred in the CBS drama pilot “Waterfront.” Pantoliano was recognized by his role in the thought-provoking feature “Canvas,” opposite Marcia Gay Harden, which won Best Feature Film and landed him the Outstanding Actor Award at the Sedona International Film Festival as well as the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Performance at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival in 2006.
He produced and starred in the CBS drama pilot “Waterfront.” Pantoliano received critical acclaim for his starring role opposite Marcia Gay Harden in the thought-provoking feature “Canvas,” which took Best Feature Film and landed him the Outstanding Actor Award at the Sedona International Film Festival as well as the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Performance at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival in 2006. Pantoliano’s recent work in front of the camera includes a starring role in “Falling Up” with Sarah Roemer and Joe Cross.
Pantoliano authored the New York Times bestseller Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy - a bittersweet memoir about growing up in an Italian-American family in New Jersey. He is currently working on a follow-up, Asylum, for an anticipated Summer 2011 release. Pantoliano’s commitment to literacy extends well beyond his written work. In collaboration with Audible.com, he is advocating for the wider adoption of audio book formats among those living with dyslexia, a condition Pantoliano lived with undiagnosed as a child. He voiced NARROWS GATE by The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Fusilli, a book that was not in print before being recorded. The book is about growing up in Pantoliano’s (and Fusilli’s) hometown of Hoboken, NJ.
Inspired by his role in “Canvas,” Pantoliano started his own non-profit organization, No Kidding, Me Too! and made his directorial debut in April 2010 with an informative and moving documentary of the same name, taking home the SAMHSA-sponsored 2010 Voice Award. With this unique film, Pantoliano seeks to expose the stigma, discrimination and shame shrouding brain dis-ease and keeping a third of those affected from getting the help they need to take back their lives. NKM2’s follow-up documentary, “Between Iraq and a Hard Place,” has already begun production in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncovering the individual stories behind America’s armed forces hidden battle with suicide.
Pantoliano currently resides in Connecticut & Hoboken, NJ with his wife, son, three daughters, and four dogs (and counting). ◦
