His sons, who are in the car with him during our phone interview, are smiling knowingly, he says. He is driving them to practice in Southern California. He has been out there since he was about their age. He moved from his home in New York City to play a character by the same first name on “Silver Spoons.”Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “Alfonso” was Ricky Schroder’s easygoing best friend who liked to sing and dance. Ribeiro had a longer-lasting – and cornier – role as Carlton Banks, Will Smith’s cousin, on another hit sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” “Everyone thinks of me as the character that they know, but the person is very different from that,” says Ribeiro, 54. “My...
