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Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) is an elderly Italian peasant who decides to travel to America for the first time to see Robert (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) is an elderly Italian peasant who decides to travel to America for the first time. His recently deceased brother had moved to America in his youth to raise his family. Uncle Nino travels to see Robert (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations: random strangers don’t like being accosted by random old men who offer them a bite of their salami…apparently that’s just not an American custom...

Author: By Tony A. Onah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncle Nino Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...unscripted, feel-good sequel, Grand Rapidians rallied around the little indie and came to embrace the actor who plays the title role of an eccentric uncle from Italy. With money raised by Nino's Nieces and Nephews, a grass-roots group that includes some 900 fans, the actor Pierrino Mascarino (whose credits include Seinfeld and Murder, She Wrote) flew in from L.A. to raise the profile of the movie even more in the city's schools, churches and senior centers. "Our goal was to see if all of Grand Rapids would love it as much as we did," says Billie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Nino ... In Grand Rapids | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Descending into the realm of will-they-last child prodigies, the sensation of the season, not only from a musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano and Zurich before going to France. He concentrates on a young man's program (Schubert 8th, Beethoven 1st) and although I had no chance to see or hear him, I was very reliably informed that he conducted it very well...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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