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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Stuart Jeffries

‘People come up to me and say: You saved my life’ – how we made the Fame TV series

‘We were one tribe – it was a family’ … Fame, with Lee Curreri as Bruno, left.
‘We were one tribe – it was a family’ … Fame, with Lee Curreri as Bruno, left. Photograph: NBC TV/Kobal/Shutterstock

Lee Curreri (Bruno Martelli)

I didn’t really want the fame. It was never about the ego for me, just the music. I wanted to be Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the Mission: Impossible theme. I was this misfit little Italian kid who went to a Catholic school in the Bronx and had peculiar interests. When I watched the Carol Burnett Show on TV, for example, I was watching because I loved the way the bandleader Peter Matz orchestrated the music.

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