You went away and left me long time ago now you're knocking on my door I hear you knocking but you can't come in Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files a series of stories about life

love and Hollywood as told by actor Stephen Tobolowski I'm David Chen from

slash film.com and joining me today he is the man who played

Roger in the TV series Cafe American Stephen Deblezky Stephen how you doing

today I'm doing very good. Boy, Roger, this is one of those jobs that I felt like could have gone either way. And it turned out to be a great boon for me. Boy I don't know.

But yeah, Café American is a television series that ran for it looks like one year that was

created by Peter Noah. and starred Valerie Bertinelli and

did you follow the track of Peter Noah and me after that because it was I believe

right after that Peter Noah and I did Dwebs and and I and then later I believe

we did Mr Rhodes Peter and I had a but I think it all began with this Cafe American and what

Excuse me Stephen it's Cafe American.

Oh, so sorry I didn't see the oopslawn over the end there.

Cafe Merckin.

And what it was was I was playing a stodgy American businessman who finally decides to quote let his hair down.

No jokes David, no jokes on that.

To let his hair down and to be a free spirit in Paris and then I get electrocuted on the Eiffel Tower.

But what happened, I've discussed this on the Tobolowski files before.

The time when an actor gets fired is that the network run through. You have like

one chance in front of your producers and the writers, then the next run through is for network, and if something

screws up, usually the guest cast get fired.

In this case, that was me.

And the way the script was written was was they put in a lot of, I hate to use the word, but kind of cliches of American

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