Posted on 05/08/2010 3:58:43 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Tony Sirico, the actor who played Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri on The Sopranos, once was known as Gennaro Sirrico, and according to a March 19, 1970 article from The New York Times he allegedly was a former manager of the nightclub Salvation at One Sheridan Square which had become a gay hotspot through the influence of Robert Wood who was murdered in February 1970 with five bullets to his head from a .32 automatic. The NYT article alleges Sirico, who had been arrested in connection with the shake down of John Addison who operated the gay club The Together at 308 East 59th Street, "was a former manager of the Salvation . . . whose owner was murdered last month" according to police.
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So he was preparing for his acting career?
The author is identified only as “Anonymous.” Might be some valid reasons why the author’s identity should not be revealed, but the anonimity makes the story less credible.
there is a court record of a Brooklyn judge once telling Tony Sirico that he was a “menace to society”. Probably not a bad thing to bring along to your Sopranos casting call.
(I still say Ed Rendell would have been a slam-dunk for that part if he had showed up for the audition)
Art imitating life?
“The author is identified only as ‘Anonymous.’ Might be some valid reasons why the author’s identity should not be revealed, but the anonimity makes the story less credible.”
It all appears well sourced.
No wonder he didn’t get the role as Little Pussy.
It's easily understandable why the source would want to remain anonymous whether the info is accurate or not.
So in real life Paulie is an un-made Vito?
*ping*
This is Robert Wood’s watch. He’d want you to have it.
Well, if your "writing" skills produced a sentence that long, with or without punctuation, I would think you would want to be anonymous, also.
LOL - I was thinking JohhnyCakes
Nothing to see here, move along...:)
“beforeitsnews”? how about, decadesafteranyonecared”
The mob ran all those sleazy clubs back then. This does not indicate that Walnuts was a fruit, he was a mobster. They couldn’t care less what they made money off of. Think like a gangster in 1970. Besides the cash that bars generate, think of the extortion possibilities from the clietele, especially married guys at the time.
La Cosa Nostra owned most of the gay bars in New York, Philadelpia, and other cities well into the 1970s, including the notorious Stonewall Inn.
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