Frankie Pantangeli The Godfather

 

Michael Gazzo

As Frankie Pantangeli

The GODFATHER

The GODFATHER Part II 

Frank Pentangeli is a fictional character from the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, portrayed by Michael V. Gazzo. Gazzo was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance, which he lost to Robert De Niro, his co-star from the same film (as young Vito Corleone). He is nicknamed "Frankie Five Angels" from his last name, which is formed from the Greek-derived prefix penta- (meaning "five") and the Italian word angeli ("Angels").

Noel Quotes lines from Francis Ford Coppola's

The GODFATHER

This is my brother-in-law Noel quoting lines from

The Godfather, and making some quite funny Satirical Humor.

He delivers some lines from the movie, but in a very funny way

as opposed to the seriousness drama of the film.

I was having a nice Sunday afternoon lunch with my sister Barbara and 

brother-in-law Noel (he's a Comedian). We had a memorable lunch at the old Rocco's Restauarant on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village, which sadly closed a few years ago, and now the restaurant Carbone is in the former Rocco's space, and using the old Rocco's neon sigb with Carbone superimposed over where it used to say Rocco's.

Rocco's was a typical old-school Italian restaurant of Greenwich Village, known as

a "Red Sauce Joint." The restaurant was beloved by Italian-American's in the neighborhood, and there was quite an uproar when the people of Rocco's (after 70 years in business) were pushed out by the landlord for the higher rent paying tenants of the Major Food Group to make way for the restaurant Carbone owned by; Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff  Zalaznick who had a successful run with their first two restaurants Torrisi Speciality Foods and Parm.

It's very funny, "Watch It" !!!

LEARN HOT to MAKE CLEMENZA'S GODFATHER SUNDAY SAUCE

RECIPE

SUNDAY SAUCE

RECIPES

BRACIOLE - MEATBALLS

SOUPS - PASTA

SUNDAY SAUCE

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ROCCO'S Old Neon Sign

Photo Copyright 2007 Daniel Zwicke

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CARBONE 

Copyright 2019 Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

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NYC Italian Restaurants John Gotti Ate at

 

JOHN GOTTI (walking out the door)

And his brother Peter Gotti (far left)

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (3rd from Left)

And other Associates outside of The RAVENITE SOCIAL CLUB

247 MULBERRY STREET

LITTLE ITALY

NEW YORK, NY

Il FORNAIO

ITALIAN RESTAURANT

MULBERRY STREET

LITTLE ITALY

NEW YORK

Il FORNAIO

Mulberry Street

LITTLE ITALY

NEW YORK NY

I think Il FORNAIO opened around 1985 or so, cant't quite remember exactly. Back then,

Little Italy stille had good restaurants like : Benito I and Benito II, Angelo's, Umberto's Clam House

where Crazy Joe Gallo was "Whacked" and Taoramina where one night I was eating with my then girlfriend Riki, when apparently John Gotti and his Crew were eating because as I was eating some

Braciole, I looked up and saw right in front of me John Gotti and his boys walking out of the back room and out of the restaurant and on to Mulberry Street and across the street to The Ravenite Social Club

at 247 Mulberry Street in New York's Little Italy, then still partially an Italian Neighborhood (not anymore). This was not the first time that I'd be eating in an Italian Restaurant in Little Italy and I'd be eating there the same time as one

of the Worlds most notorious Mob Bosses John Gotti and his brother Peter Gotti and Sammy "The Bull Gravano" were having dinner at the restaurants as well.

No the first time I encountered "The Teflon Don" John Gotti eating at the same same restaurant and at the same time I was having dinner was a about 2 years before at my favorite

place to eat Spaghetti and Meatballs, at Il Fornaio on Mulberry Street.

SUNDAY SAUCE

WHEN ITALIAN AMERICANS COOK

WHEN JOHNNYBOY EATS

BRACIOLE MEATBALLS and More ... 

RECIPES

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"WHEN JOHNNYBOY EATS"