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“Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Phil Rosenthal just lately revealed that John Lennon served as the most effective man at actor Peter Boyle’s 1977 wedding ceremony.
Rosenthal, 65, shared the shocking information whereas celebrating 30 years of “Everybody Loves Raymond” on the Paley Heart in New York Metropolis on Monday.
Ray Romano (Ray Barone), Patricia Heaton (Debra Barone) and Maggie Wheeler (Linda Gruenfelder) had been additionally in attendance.
Boyle, who portrayed Romano’s on-screen father, Frank Barone, in all 9 seasons of the CBS sitcom from 1996 to 2005, died from a number of myeloma in 2006 on the age of 71.
“Two interesting things about Peter Boyle,” Rosenthal stated whereas remembering the late actor. “He studied to be a monk when he was younger. I asked him, ‘Why’d you give it up?’ And he says, ‘There weren’t enough girls there.’”
“And the other thing is, I wonder if you know this. You know who the best man at his wedding was? John Lennon,” Rosenthal added. “He was cool, Peter Boyle.”
Boyle met his spouse, Loraine Alterman, in 1974 on the set of Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein.”
Alterman was working as a reporter for Rolling Stone journal on the time, and Boyle, who was starring within the movie as Frankenstein’s monster, allegedly requested her out whereas nonetheless carrying his costume and make-up.
”He really was out of make-up once we met, however let him have it his manner,” Alterman clarified throughout an interview with The New York Occasions in 2001.
The pair started courting, and so they married in 1977.
Alterman, who additionally labored as a music critic for Rolling Stone, was associates with Lennon’s spouse, Yoko Ono. It was by way of Ono that Boyle grew to become near the Beatles star.
“My wife and I had a very low-key wedding,” Boyle instructed Philadelphia journal only one 12 months earlier than his demise. “At the last minute, I asked John to stand in as my best man. And he said yes. The rest is history.”
“He is John Lennon,” the actor added, noting that Lennon didn’t carry out on the wedding ceremony. “And everything he does is memorable.”
Three years after Boyle and Alterman’s wedding ceremony, Lennon was tragically shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outdoors his residence at The Dakota in NYC on Dec. 8, 1980. The “Imagine” singer was 40 years previous.
In the meantime, Rosenthal revealed that he would by no means reboot “Everybody Loves Raymond” through the present’s 30-year reunion in NYC on Monday.
He defined that it could be “impossible” with out Boyle and Doris Roberts. Roberts portrayed Marie Barone on the present and handed away from pure causes in 2016 on the age of 90.
“I’ll be honest with you, I’m a student of TV, and I’ve seen the shows that try to come back and do reboots. They’re never as good,” Rosenthal instructed Individuals shortly earlier than the reunion occasion kicked off. “So I’m happy with the memory.”
“It’s not the show that I miss doing,” he added. “We did it. We did 210 episodes. That’s a lot of anything. We decided to stop when we felt like it was enough. We weren’t canceled. We stopped for a reason. What I miss are my friends. That’s what I miss. All the people who made the show with us.”
Brad Garrett, who performed Romano’s older brother, Robert Barone, on the beloved sitcom, stated one thing related when requested about an “Everybody Loves Raymond” reboot earlier this month.
“There won’t be,” Garrett stated on the premiere of Disney Pixar’s “Elio” in Los Angeles on June 10. “And I’m just saying that because that’s something that Ray and Phil [Rosenthal] have always said.”
“There is no show without the parents. They were the catalyst, and to do anything that would resemble that wouldn’t be right to the audiences or the loyal fan base,” he added. “And it was about those two families, and you can’t get around that.”
