Danny DeVito (Neptune, New Jersey, 1944) is a versatile icon of modern Hollywood, but if anything we know him, especially in his director's face, it's to cultivate the darkest side of comedy. There are such beloved samples as 'Throw Mom off the Train' (1987), his review of Hitchcock in key 'slapstick', or of course, 'The Rose War' (1989), the one where Barbara Rose (Kathleen Turner) gave her husband Oliver (Michael Douglas) a pretty convincing r…
Danny DeVito (Neptune, New Jersey, 1944) is a versatile icon of modern Hollywood, but if anything we know him, especially in his director's face, it's to cultivate the darkest side of comedy. There are such beloved samples as 'Throw Mom off the Train' (1987), his review of Hitchcock in key 'slapstick', or of course, 'The Rose War' (1989), the one where Barbara Rose (Kathleen Turner) gave her husband Oliver (Michael Douglas) a pretty convincing r…