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...Tommy's House of Pizza. Every scene takes place in Ata's slovenly apartment, around which Tommy's pizza boxes are scattered. At each scene change, the boxes are artfully moved around and the piles added to. The back of the program even offers a coupon for a free cannoli from Tommy's. "Sesame Seed Edge" Pizza and Dr. Pepper (Ata's meal of choice) are a far more appealing option than this play...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: 'Criminal Hearts' Weighed Down by Implausible Plot | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti's many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules, yet when one of his associates breaks a pre-eminent one by dealing drugs, Gotti does not toss him out; instead he visits him in the hospital and feeds him cannoli filling with his finger. It was that kind of management style that in reality made Gotti a subpar Mob boss, a less-than-brilliant criminal who never returned the Gambinos to the profitable glory days of life under Don Carlo and Big Paul. Leave reality out of it though, and Gotti, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: HOODS HAVE FEELINGS TOO | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti1s many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules, yet when one of his associates breaks a pre-eminent one by dealing drugs, Gotti does not toss him out; instead he visits him in the hospital and feeds him cannoli filling with his finger. It was that kind of management style that in reality made Gotti a subpar Mob boss, a less-than-brilliant criminal who never returned the Gambinos to the profitable glory days of life under Don Carlo and Big Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide: | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti1s many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules, yet when one of his associates breaks a pre-eminent one by dealing drugs, Gotti does not toss him out; instead he visits him in the hospital and feeds him cannoli filling with his finger. It was that kind of management style that in reality made Gotti a subpar Mob boss, a less-than-brilliant criminal who never returned the Gambinos to the profitable glory days of life under Don Carlo and Big Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide: | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...dare imagine the consequences to these candidates after consuming a sausage calzone, a gyro, a samosa, a pastrami on rye with a half-sour pickle, a pint of brown ale, a dozen baby back ribs and a cannoli, all in 45 minutes? Will the Secret Service have the sense to avoid disaster by leaping in front of their candidate and wrestling the innocent-looking kielbasa to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Looking Glass: THE PEPCID PRIMARY | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

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