What amazed Ray Romano about parenthood?
His TV series still a hit in re-runs, Ray Romano is set to score an even bigger audience as the voice of a curmudgeonly woolly mammoth for the third time in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out that even though it’s an animated feature, Romano didn’t have any trouble connecting with his character. Relating to mammoth marriage. “Manny is still struggling with his relationship. That was no problem for me because I just rely on my own lack of understanding about talking to women. Marriage made me harder. Parenthood made me softer. I was kind of like Manny when my first kid was born. I didn’t know how I was going to react and then once I had this new daughter, I was amazed at how I became like the overprotective father.” But not when he left the hospital. “When I went to pick up my wife and baby and take them home from the hospital, I parked in a tow away zone. We came out and the car was gone and we had to take a taxi home to Queens. So on my daughter’s first
