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John Larroquette

Emmy Award winner John Larroquette originally hails from New Orleans, Louisiana where he began his career as a disc jockey. Using his silky, smooth speaking voice he landed a role as the narrator of the cult film classic, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

A four-time consecutive Emmy winner (1985-1988) for his role as the philandering Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding on NBC's long running series, "Night Court," Larroquette added a fifth Emmy for his guest-starring role as Joey Heric on "The Practice" last season. he also starred in the NBC series, "The John Larroquette Show" from 1993 to 1996, which earned him an Emmy nomination in its second season.

Larroquette's additional credits include the movies, "The Defenders" and "One Special Victory," in which he starred and served as executive producer, as well as recurring roles in the series, "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Doctor's Hospital."

His feature film credits include co-starring roles in "Richie Rich, " "Tune In Tomorrow," "Second Sight," "Madhouse," "Blind Date," "Summer Rental," "Stripes," "Choose Me," "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," and "Twilight Zone: The Movie."

On stage, Larroquette starred in the Los Angeles productions of the critically acclaimed "Happy Jack" and "Endgame," for which he received a 1984 Dramalogue Award.

as Tony Lewis

Tony Lewis hails from the Tenth Kingdom province known as Staten Island. Little is known about his youth except that he was an avid inventor. His mother was quoted as having said her son was “always tinkering with something.”

Lewis owned a thriving plastics business and made a forture before he was twenty-one. He married socialite Christine Slevil, who he met while skiing in Aspen, enjoying his newfound forture. Several years later, Christine gave birth to their first and only child, Virginia.

Lewis lost his fortune when he invested his life savings in the production of one of his inventions. The ‘bouncy castle,’ as he called it, was a children’s toy that never caught on. Released just before the all-important Christmas season (a Tenth Kingdom celebration which makes or breaks toy companies), the Bouncy Castle’s sales were dwarfed by a fad hit from Japan.

As a result, the Lewis family fell on hard times, and Tony took a job as a janitor at a Central Park address. Christine walked out on the family several years later and never returned.

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"Ten years, fifteen years tops, this country is finished as a democracy, as a caring society, as a place where people do things for others, we’re finished, we’re gone, we’re out of here."