Anthony/Antony 'Tony' Lewis an ex-janitor (now Anthony/Antony the Valient), is one of 'The Four Who Saved The Nine Kingdoms' of the Hallmark Entertainment's, and NBC's2000 Mini-series The 10th Kingdom by Simon Moore. The 10th Kingdom is a seven-hour United States television movie written by Simon Moore. ...

Official Bio

Tony Lewis hails from the 10th Kingdom province known as Staten Island. Little is known about his youth except that he was an avid inventor. His mother was quoted as having said her son was, “always tinkering with something”. Staten Island lies to the southwest of the rest of New York City. ... Popular use of the word youth refers to a person who is neither an adult nor a child, but somewhere in between, scientifically referred to as an adolescent and, in the United States, commonly referred to as a teen or teenager. ... Avid Technology, Inc, a publicly traded company since 1993, is registered on the NASDAQ under the symbol AVID. The company is involved with digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution services. ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...

Lewis owned a thriving plastics business and made a fortune before he was twenty-one. He married socialite Christine Slevil, who he met while skiing in Aspen, enjoying his newfound fortune. Several years later, Christine gave birth to their first and only child, Virginia. Plastic bottles for recycling Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... External links Business Articles growFolio - Online Business Magazine for Fresh Thinkers Yahoo! Finance Aggregates some really good business articles Categories: | | | ... A socialite is a person (male or female, but more often used for a woman) of social prominence who is considered to be an influential social figure. ... Christine Slevil-Lewis-White a. ... Species Populus adenopoda Populus alba Populus grandidentata Populus sieboldii Populus tremula Populus tremuloides Aspens are trees of the willow family and comprise a section of the poplar genus Populus sect. ... Virginia Lewis is the heroine and one of The Four Who Saved The Nine Kingdoms of the Hallmark Entertainments, and NBCs2000 Mini-series The 10th Kingdom by Simon Moore. ...

Lewis lost his fortune when he invested his life savings in the production of one of his inventions. The ‘Bouncy Castle,’ as he called it, was a children’s toy that never caught on. Released just before the all-important Christmas season (a 10th Kingdom celebration which makes or breaks toy companies), the Bouncy Castle’s sales were dwarfed by a fad hit from Japan. Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

As a result, the Lewis family fell on hard times, and Tony took a job as a janitor at a Central Park address. Christine walked out on the family when Virginia was seven and she has never returned. A Central Park landscape Central Park (40° 46′59″N, 73° 58′20″W) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ...

History

Anthony/Antony 'Tony' Lewis (John Larroquette) was originally from Staten Island, New York, (in the Novel Addaption, it says that he grew up in a tough neighbourhood) where his luck first found him; the little information provided in his official bio about his youth is that he was quite the avid inventor, and his mother was quoted as having said her son was “always tinkering with something”, but not else is said about his parents. John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an actor in television and the movies. ...

Tony went on to build his own business from the ground up, manufacturing and working around plastics and investing in ideas for toys; by the time he was twenty-one years old, Tony was earning himself around Fifty Five Thousand Dollers a year, and had now become a part of the society of New York Citys high flyers. Plastic bottles for recycling Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... ...

Tony Lewis's official bio states that he first met Christine Slevil, a New York Socialite, while he was on vacation, skiing up in the mountain slopes of Aspen, with his newfound fortune; and Tony was smitten by Christine, who's beauty, charisma and charms had caught her the attention of many admirers. Although he had also noticed Christine was very neurotic, Tony was crazy about her, and he was on top of the world when Christine later agreed to marry him. Christine Slevil-Lewis-White a. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages None. ... A socialite is a person (male or female, but more often used for a woman) of social prominence who is considered to be an influential social figure. ... Many see natural beauty in the folded petals of a rose. ... The word charisma (from the Greek word kharisma or gift), is often used to describe an ability to charm or influence people. ... Look up Charm on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Charm can have the following meanings: In the world of paranormal magic, a charm can mean either: An amulet or talisman, or A spell. ... A neurosis, in psychoanalytic theory, is an ineffectual coping strategy that Sigmund Freud suggested was caused by emotions from past experience overwhelming or interfering with present experience. ...

Although the couple were a bad match, Tony rushed into the marriage, not wanting to lose out on such a catch as Christine. A short year or two into their marriage, Christine discovered she was pregnant and wanted to abort it, but Tony wore her down in the hopes that a baby would solve their marriage problems, Tony and Christine Lewis then had their first and only child, a daughter they named Virginia. Marriage is a relationship between individuals which has formed the foundation of the family for most societies. ... A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ... An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy associated with the death of an embryo or a fetus. ... Virginia Lewis is the heroine and one of The Four Who Saved The Nine Kingdoms of the Hallmark Entertainments, and NBCs2000 Mini-series The 10th Kingdom by Simon Moore. ...

Tony Lewis's drop from high society and the loss of his self-respect began when he went and put all his faith and almost all his money into a children’s toy called bouncy castles, which he had become very taken with. But by now his long lucky streak was running out; his investment - all of his money - was lost as the bouncy castles failed to meet his expectations and did not make any money. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

With almost all his money gone, his company soon lost all its business, and Tony took employment as a janitor, in an apartment building on the edge of Central Park, to support his wife Christine and his daughter Virginia; the job provided them with a free apartment with a view of Central Park as well as a roof over their heads. A janitors bucket with mop A janitor or caretaker (term used in British English) is a person who takes care of a building, such as a school, office building, block of flats. ...

When Virginia was about seven years old, Tony noticed that Christine's neurotic behaviour was becoming worse, she was unfaithful to Tony a number of times and was never discreat about it while Tony put up with it to keep it from Virginia and to keep his family together; Tony could do nothing as his sick wife became worse and worse until the night she left and never returned, leaving Tony (now a single father) and Virginia and never returned. Struck hard by the events of that night, Tony could never tell anyone, not even Virginia, what had happened that night. A single parent is a parent with one or more children, who is neither married, nor living together with his or her partner. ...

After losing his business, his wife and nearly losing Virginia, and still being trapped in his dead-end job, Tony has lost his self-respect; in the fourteen years that passed, a middle-aged Tony Lewis is still working as a janitor, having never picked himself up from his losses, he complains about it everyday to his daughter Virginia, (who still lives with him, and having looked after Tony for those fourteen years and finished school, and working as a waitress at the 'Grill on the Park/Grill on the Green.) Still working as a janitor; Tony hates, envies, but also lives in fear of his boss, Mr. Murray - the tyrannical owner of their old apartment building: External links Business Articles growFolio - Online Business Magazine for Fresh Thinkers Yahoo! Finance Aggregates some really good business articles Categories: | | | ... Marriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

• Tony fears Mr. Murray because he can fire Tony on a moment's notice.
• Tony hates Mr. Murray because he is always unreasonable - often overworking Tony (the wiring, the elevator, the boiler and plumbing in an old and rat-infested building) and repeating how there were other people who would love Tony's current job.
• And Tony envies Mr. Murray because he has wealth and power that Tony once had.

Tony juggles working the underpaid overhours with complaining, drinking, with schemes and dreams of regaining his lost fortunes - but so far he's still hanging on near the bottom of the social ladder - a middle-aged single father and borderline klutz and burnout, who complains to almost anyone who'll listen; but then Tony's just expected Mr. Murray to do all that work when the old building needs to be renovated.

But despite all this, Tony is too wrapped up in his own pain, depression, memories and dreams then to do more about his predicament or to notice too much of what's going around him, like details of Virginia's life or the pain she's in from the long-term effects of her mother's abandonment, father and daughter don't talk often or openly - as Tony avoids talking about Christine, and Tony hates his mother-in-law - but Tony depends on Virginia to do all the cooking and leaving him food while she's at work, cleaning up after him when he spends his night in front of the TV, washing laundry etc.

Tony's problem is that when he was young and successful, he had a lucky streak - everything was going for him (lots of money, and a beautiful wife), and he leant too much on luck, rather than honest hard work. As an old saying goes: "Our strength is often composed of the weakness we've damned if we're going to show" - Tony was too used to being his own boss and leant too much on his lucky-streak, and when it ran out, Tony fell, hard, and has been crawling for years since. Tony has yet to learn that if he wants something bad enough, then he has to work for it, and things will not always be like they were. Tony also thinks that having already lost his successful Business, his wife and his self-respect - he believes that he has lost everything; but Tony hasn't realised that he has not lost Virginia.

Story

At the beginning of the mini-series, the ne'er-do-well Tony is making repairs to the building's elevator, yet again, and complaining about it (among other things) to Virginia, yet again: "Look at this! This has been chewed. This is not my job! This is an electrician's job! But who gets to do it?" When his boss Mr. Murray steps into the picture and demands that Tony finish fixing the elevator and get straight to the buildings boiler, and all this time Tony is scared that any back-chatting to his boss's face will get him fired, but his quite happy to bad-mouth his boss behind his back: "Drain the system... I'd like to drain his system."

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Trivia on Tony Lewis

The facts detailed here, are either observed from The 10th Kingdom mini-series and/or from The 10th Kingdom Novel Addaptation. The 10th Kingdom is a seven-hour United States television movie written by Simon Moore. ... The 10th Kingdom is a seven-hour United States television movie written by Simon Moore. ...

• John Larroquette, who potrays Tony Lewis, also plays an uncredited role in the series - the giant bounding across the transformed New York City in the 10th Kingdom mini-series's opening credits.
• The motto for Tony’s failed business investment, the bouncy castle, was: ‘'Put the bounce back in your life'’.
• Tony is a "All or Nothing" sort of guy, no matter the risk. He put all his money into his bouncy castle investment - and lost his whole fortune. During one of the ’’Lucky-in-Love Casino’’ scenes, Tony mentions "Theres' no card came that scares me. You remember that week we spent in Vagas in 93" - and Virginia reminds him that they had to sell his car in the end. So we know that Tony and Virginia once spent a week in Las Vagas 1993. Further still in the ’’Lucky-in-Love Casino’’ scenes, Tony, playing Snap against an old lady all-night, indulges his All or Nothing attitude, puts all his winnings forward for the whole jackpot - and loses.
• Tony once had a car. During their time in the Little Lamb Village, when Virginia is determined to help prove Wolf's innocent of Sally Peep's murder, she reminds her father Tony how she helped him get out of a parking ticket, has she had "took a polaroid of the broken meter". Furthermore, in the Lucky-in-Love Casino scenes, when Tony says: "Theres' no card came that scares me. You remember that week we spent in Vagas in 93"; Virginia answers "When we had to sell the car".
• Tony is not supposed to be smoking. In the scene, after Tony has used his first wish to turn Mr. Murray and his whole family into his slaves, Tony is smoking a cigar (as well as smoking one while he was in the ‘’’Lucky-in-Love Casino’’’); the Novel Adaptation mentions that Tony has a secret stash of cigars hidden away, and that Virginia had not yet found and disposed of them.
• When Tony uses the ‘’’Magic Dragon-Dung Bean’’’ (a magic wish-granting bean, made from Dragons’ dung) that Wolf gave him, his wishes were:

1. I wish that you and your entire family would kiss my ass and be my slaves forever.
2. Okay Wishmaster, give me a never-ending supply of Beer.
3. I wish I had something that would clean this appartment, and I would never have to lift a finger.
4. Hey Wishmaster, how about a million dollers.
5. I wish I could escape from this police car, right now.
6. I wish I could understand everything this dog is saying.

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Speculation on Tony Lewis

• In the 10th Kingdom Mini-series, according to scenes and flashbacks, Tony and Virginia have been living in the same apartment building for over 14 years. But in the Novel Adaptation, in the scene where Tony is fired by Mr. Murray, the novel mentions that Tony has been a janitor more that once, and that he has been fired from other jobs as janitors – so Tony and Virginia haven’t lived in the apartment building for as long as indicated in the mini-series – so Tony has not been working for Mr. Murray for as long as hinted in the mini-series.

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Tony Lewis's Quotes

Quotes taken from the screen and novel adaptions:

• Look at this! This has been chewed. This is not my job! This is an electrician's job! But who gets to do it?
• Ten years, fifteen years tops this country is finished as a democracy, as a caring society, as a place where people do things for others, we’re finished, we’re gone, we’re out of here.
• If she's not at work, she'll be at er... my Mother-in-Law's. You know she's always trying to turn Virginia against me.
• She likes money, its the only thing that impresses her.
• I'm Tony Lewis. Janitor.
• What is it with you people? Why can't you just say 'oh that'll be a hundred gold coins please?' But no, it's 'not unless you lay a magic egg', or 'count the hair's on a giant's a**!'
• Well is it any wonder he turned into a sick-sadist?
• Wanna go for walkies?
• Now its time for the 'Well of Fortune.'
• Well Virginia believes in him, and I believe in Virginia.
• Have you got 'Mr. Bun the Bakerman?'
• I had a perfectly good business; I just expanded too soon. Then the resession hit me and I lost everything: my business, my wife and my self-respect. Heres to Tony Lewis - biggest failure in all the Ten Kingdoms.
• Yeah well she doesn't understand me either!
• I'd like to have someone who'd look after me, fed me so I didn't have to worry about anything. That would be heaven.