Diminutive (5') Danny DeVito parlayed his characteristically tough and harsh quasi-Brooklyn style of line delivery and formidable flair for the demonically comic into starring parts by the mid 1980s. His breakthrough film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), marked his first collaboration with longtime friend Michael Douglas (who produced) and introduced him to Jack Nicholson who had grown up in the same Jersey Shore environs as had DeVito. Utterly believable as the touching and pathetic Martini, one of a fine ensemble of mental patients that included future "Taxi" (ABC, 1978-82; NBC, 1982-83) regular Christopher Lloyd, De Vito landed the part of tyrannical dispatcher Louie De Palma on that acclaimed TV comedy series and began developing his patented screen persona that has served him so well, that of the lovable sleaze....