Word: vito
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard goalkeeper came up with three great saves," said Orr, who was without top attacker Vito Serafini and Captain Dwight Bronson. "He really hurt our game...
...Vito Marzullo had the shock of his life last week. The former alderman, 91, awoke one morning to find his own obituary on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. There was consolation in the encomiums by fellow pols, who hailed Marzullo as the "dean" of Windy City politics. The embarrassed Tribune, still renowned for its DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline in 1948, launched an investigation of the gaffe. It turned out that Marzullo's brother-in-law, who lived in the same building, had passed away...
...plot is yet another rehashing of a really old (I mean really old) theme. Right after breaking up with his girlfriend (Eliza Rosenbluth), Zoole captures hapless burglar Vito Antonucci (David Condon) as the latter tries to escape from his apartment. Zoole ties him to the kitchen counter and inflicts a variety of comic insults upon him. They spend most of the play talking, and in the process they find out about themselves and each other, share touching and comic moments...
Condon makes a good straight man, strengthening O'Keefe's role with solid, if uninspired acting. While Vito is sometimes boring, he is the most believable character in the play. (Of course, given the competition...) Condon submerges himself in the character, so his accent and mannerisms are those of Vito. When the part requires him to convince the audience that he's homosexual (did I forget to mention that?), he pulls...
...understand the relationship between alcohol and cigarettes -- we're not out to reform human nature," explains former City Attorney Steven Rood. As for hotels, he notes, "French and Italian movie moguls can't do business without a cigarette in their mouth." Such reasoning does not satisfy restaurant owners. Vito Sasso, proprietor of the romantic Romeo and Juliet, argues that he too has foreign customers, citing one wealthy visitor who orders several $500 bottles of wine for a dinner tab of $4,000 -- which adds up to a month's rent. "He won't come in anymore because...