Christine Baranski

We would have something called the Sunday morning club and he'd get my brother and I in bed and read us the comics before my mother would drag us off to mass.

But he'd wrestle with us on the floor and he loved reading.

dance and he loved ballet and so he insisted that I study ballet and I remember my mother having to take me to Lili Schuwalski's ballet classes.

Lili Schuwalski was very Polish and I remember my first dance recital after I did my number, whatever it was, I went and ran into my father's arms, he was in the audience and he just adored me and I had a wonderful relationship with him and

I often tell this story, so if any of your listeners have heard this, I'm sorry, but my fondest memory of my father...

was when he took me to see a Polish singing and dancing group.

They're called Mazowsze, and they actually still perform.

My father took me, and I was, what was I, maybe seven, maybe eight.

It was a date with Tatush.

I called him Tatush, which means father.

Tatush took me to the ballet, and I was sitting on the aisle, and my father was sitting next to me, and he was, as I said, very tall, well-built man.

And the dancing, there's a lot of Polish singing and Polish dancing.

And at the curtain call, remember, the performers waved their beautiful scarves up and down at the audience.

And I suddenly heard this shouting coming from my father as he shouted, bravo, bravo.

And I was stunned that he was being so vociferous, and I thought it was embarrassing.

And I looked up, and there were tears rolling down his face as he shouted, Bravo.

And at the time, I was so embarrassed that this big man was acting like that.

And now I think back, maybe all these years of being a performer, maybe it's...

Maybe it's for that man shouting bravo.

He was...