Dante Palminteri, the son of Chazz Palminteri, is in “Sharknado 2,” the son of “Sharknado l” and step-cousin of “Jaws.” Born in LA, lives in NY, began in showbiz at age 10. The kid’s a hot 18.
“I play Ian Ziering’s son. My character’s high school student Vaughn, who’s warned to get away. The film’s about escape. Mark McGrath, Judah Friedlander and I run from [the] Mets stadium onto the subway. Streets are flooding. Extras fight the sharks eating them. First scene’s in a cab. A rope’s thrown, which, getting out, we swing from. Shooting was 5 p.m. right on Broadway with everyone watching.”
Wow! Can’t wait to see it. No better beach movie than one with fish jumping out of the water dining on people. The idea probably came from a tuna.
“I’m also a musician. I write songs, play guitar, piano, bass, drums. At 10, I started singing. I’m as good as at acting. I now have my first band. I’m singing in the movie. The song’s funny. Campy. It’s called ‘Eat Me.’ ”
Wow! For sure have to see this. Maybe I’ll play the DVD at dinner.
“I started acting early. Dad gave me scripts and said, ‘Pretend to be the character.’ He’d sit down, make me do sensory exercises. He’d say, ‘Don’t act it. Just say it. Don’t read it. Do it 100 times.’
“At this audition, I was nervous. I was young, terrified. I read it. They had me ad-lib. They said, ‘Nice job.’ When they called back I was less on edge, and they told me I had the part. I can’t wait for ‘Sharknado 3.’ ”
Yeah. Right. Me either.
Good reads
Summertime. Read Anchor Books’ not-put-downer “Inferno” by repeat best-selling author Dan Brown. Read best-selling author David Baldacci’s best seller “The Target,” Grand Central Press. Both fabulous… Medicaltime: New York mag lists best doctors, like Columbia Presbyterian’s Jim McKiernan and Newark’s Robert Lahita. I know both. They should also add dentists. Marc Lazare’s the A-1.
Jessica Alba wants to groove
Burps: Matt Damon: “I’m never followed in New York. If you don’t court the paparazzi, dance on tables or knock people out in bars, the media leaves you alone.” . . . ZAC Posen: “I’m no hypocrite about designing fur. I eat meat and wear leather. But not from rare or wild animals. Only from specific farms where they’re bred for that.” … Jessica Alba: “In a Beyoncé video, she grooved around wearing only a short little thing. I was like, ‘If she can do it, I can.’ I’m not a really thin body. I have some fat.”
Love story
Singers Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald made family movies and unmarried sex in the ’40s. One Christmas he sculpted himself in a lovers pose with her towel falling off. Discovered in some Culver City warehouse, their biographer Sharon Rich bought the statue.
Now, fulfilling a promise to Jeanette’s older sister Blossom Rock (Grandmama in TV’s “The Addams Family”) to immortalize these lovers, she’s making a biopic about their scandalous hot-time affair in the oldtime.
Body parts
Jeanette’s fallen towel brings up other body parts. Demi Moore won Most Admirable Abs after baring her stomach in “Striptease.” Madonna’s sculpted heiny once won Living Fit’s Most Bodacious Back. Angela Bassett got Alluring Arms. Tina Turner? Some award for her legs. Joan Rivers, who shpritzed me in her new book “Diary of a Mad Diva,” could get it for her mouth.
Number up
Astorino has crust but no bread, so we know Cuomo’s a go for Gov. But — here’s his need: to grab more votes than his father ever did and more than Chunky Christie ever got.
On a blind date. Him: “I’d say I’m a renaissance man. I can’t spell it, but I live it.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.