Word: petrocelly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened. Without a trial, he is summarily convicted by small-town mores and yellow journalism. But there is a knight in Harvard armor waiting on the prairie. Folks round those parts don't much cotton to the young lawyer because he's named Tony Petrocelli, and he defends the town drunk and talks back to officers of the law. But maybe. Dr. Jack figures, a young sharpshooter like Tony is just what he needs...
...mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...
...exactly a household word, although for all I know, Barry Newman may indeed be very big on Let's Make a Deal. Newman, who comes off as a cross between Andy Williams and Soupy Sales, plays the title role in The Lawyer -a young man named Tony Petrocelli who lives somewhere out in L.B.J. Country in spite of being a product of Harvard Law and Providence, Rhode Island. (In a tired, overworked running gag, he keeps explaining that his name is pronounced "Petro-CHELLI-CHELLI !" but the local Yahoos obviously have never even seen a Prince Spaghetti commercial.) Tony...
Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...