On Taxi, the original incarnation of the character Louie De Palma, the angry cab dispatcher, was someone who would never have left the dispatcher’s cage, just announcing his lines, barking orders to the cabbies. Danny DeVito made the part a lot larger. When Danny came in to read for the network, he walked in, threw the script on the table, and said, “Who wrote this shit?” We knew we had found our Louie.
