Joe Mantegna

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.