Ted Wass (Soap / Blossom / Oh God, You Devil)

<p>Ted Wass joined me to discuss watching horror movies as as a child; Lakewood Ohio; going to the Goodman School of Drama; going to NY; getting the role of Danny Zuko in Grease; being in the pilot for Handle with Care; reading the Soap pilot and wanting the role; his character arc; finding out Soap was cancelled while on Broadway; Soap protests; Danny with Chuck &amp; Bob; playing a rabbi; recasting; working with Charles Lane, Eugene Roche, Richard Mulligan, and Billy Crystal; Triangle Shirtwaist Factory TV movie; doing made for TV movies with Valerie Bertinelli &amp; Phoebe Cates; getting cast and shooting Curse of the Pink Panther; Oh, God You Devil with George Burns; Long Shot with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman; pilot &quot;Mickey &amp; Nora&quot;; short-lived show &quot;Men&quot; co-starring Ving Rhames; turning down Blossom until he is allowed to direct; shadowing Bill Bixby and Jay Sandrich on &quot;Soap&quot;; directing himself; Blossom wins a Humanitas prize; his late wife, Janet Margolin; directing Norm MacDonald, Spin City, Less than Perfect; not wanting to be a &quot;celebrity&quot;; directing former TV son in Melissa &amp; Joey; 2 Broke Girls; directing 3 John Leguizamo pilots; acting for the first time in almost 30 years playing Blossom daughter Mayim Bialik on her new show Call me Kat</p>