My dad, the movie star
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Not quite. But he does have a very small part in a movie filmed in Chicago titled Osso Bucco. Filming has been completed but we have heard of no official release date just yet. Here is the synopsis, taken from the official Osso Bucco website: “The entire story happens on the night of the worst snowstorm in the history of Chicago. Jelly Dinotto, a large, lovable and misfit mobster, is given his marching orders to return to Italy where, unbeknownst to him, his cousin Nick is planning on having him killed.
Desperate to have one more veal ossobucco before he leaves town, Jelly drags Nick to Vesuvios restaurant. As the snow falls, Jelly and Nick become trapped inside the restaurant along with two underachieving, anal-retentive Chicago detectives and the few, remaining restaurant employees.
Luckily for Jelly, Megan, the earthy, compassionate waitress for whom he is carrying a huge torch, is one of those employees. Will Jelly find true love inside Vesuvios? Or will this ossobucco be his last?”
Anyone who knows my dad, after having read the above, will agree that my dad was totally typecast! Below is a screenshot from the film, the only scene in which my dad appears.
Look over the left shoulder of the gray-haired man sitting at the table. That’s my dad 
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