THE ZAPPER

John Walters

October 20, 1997

We sure do envy Tony Danza—and not just because he probably has Alyssa Milano's phone number. On his new, eponymously titled sitcom (NBC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.), the erstwhile cabbie (Taxi) and housekeeper (Who's the Boss?) falls to a new occupational low, portraying Tony DiMeo, a New York-based sportswriter unlike any we know. Well-dressed, well-coiffed, residing in a posh Manhattan high-rise with his two daughters, technophobe Danza also employs his own lustworthy personal assistant (Maria Canals), to whom he dictates his copy. Memo to Danza: We sportswriters don't compose our stories in the same cursory manner in which we would a grocery list. Then again, we usually order out or eat at the ballpark.