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Dennis Parlato Joins ‘One Life to Live’By Candace HavensAs billionaire land developer Michael Anthony Grande, One Life to Live newcomer Dennis Parlato portrays a character who is the embodiment of a smooth operator. “He has money, class, power and the wherewithal to get exactly what he wants,*' said Parlato. “He approaches life as a chess game, and enjoys plotting all the right moves, slowly and deliberately, whether he’s trying to checkmate a business opponent or lure a beautiful woman into his bed.Ironically, chess is something Parlato is very familiar with. This past year he was featured in the Broadway musical. Chess. He played the challenging role of Walter Anderson, a CIA agent who covertly engineers the defection of a Russian chess star.Parlato, the son of a trumpet player, was born and raised in Southern California. After earning his B.A. at Loyola University in Los Angeles, he became a high school English instructor in San Francisco but left the teaching profession three years later to pursue a dance career. He performed with the Oakland Metropolitan Ballet and the San Francisco Dance Spectrum Company, then at the age of 30 moved to New York to try his luck at acting.“Actually, I had been fascinated with the theater ever since my senior year in high school, he recalled, “but it took me a long time to make a real commitment to acting. Once I made up my mind, though, I never wavered.A familiar figure to television audiences as well, his screen persona can be sympathetic or sinister. In a particularly poignant episode of Kate A Allie, he played Susan St. James* mismatched blind date—an insecure workaholic who suffered a heart attack before the end of the episode. On All My Children, on the other hand, he was cast as Barton Crane, a suave New York gangster.
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Janesville Sunday Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Jan 15, 1989
Page 104
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