You're in big trouble now, C.
~ Blue Jays ~
Posted on 12/10/2005 11:40:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
Let's start the demands for clemency now. Why drag it out for 26 years? He needs to get started writing that children's book before they change the death row rules.
Don't yourself, many people in the hood have weapons.
The DA would hang them of course.
Brancato is an idiot. I see this kid all the time and always wanted to hit him myself.
What part??? I am currently right in Woodlawn.
Is it better to be loved or feared
Well he might soon find out the hard way
Shooting suspect was once a rising star
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--brancatoprofile1210dec10,0,2423883,print.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Associated Press Writer
December 10, 2005
NEW YORK -- Just a dozen years ago, Lillo Brancato Jr. was going to be a star.
The unknown actor earned critical acclaim opposite his idol, Robert De Niro, in the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale." He played the Oscar winner's son in the story of a teen torn between two role models _ a local mobster and his dad _ in a heavily Italian Bronx neighborhood.
From there, Brancato went on to appear in more than a dozen films, including "Renaissance Man," "Crimson Tide," "Enemy of the State" and "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." Brancato later enjoyed a recurring role on "The Sopranos," eventually getting executed by fictional mob boss Tony Soprano in one of the series' more memorable departures.
But on Saturday, the actor was far from the bright lights and red carpets of Hollywood fame. Instead, police said, he was breaking into the basement of a vacant Bronx house when a gunfight erupted and an off-duty city police officer was killed.
Brancato was just 16 when De Niro launched a search for non-professionals to appear in his 1993 directorial debut, the film version of Chazz Palminteri's play "A Bronx Tale." Brancato was discovered by a casting director strolling along the sands at Jones Beach; he came out of the water and wowed him with impressions of De Niro and Joe Pesci.
In a New York Times profile, he was described as "friendly, earnest, sweet-tempered, a fast talker, a salesman, the kind of goofy tough guy who once upon a time used to hang out on a city street corner." Brancato, 29, was raised in the Yonkers by adoptive parents, and he still resided in the city just north of the Bronx.
Brancato, born in Bogota, Colombia, was adopted when he was 4 months old. "I consider myself Italian," he once said. "I was raised to eat pasta."
In 1999-2000, he appeared in a half-dozen episodes of "The Sopranos" as a dim-witted aspiring mobster. In one episode, his character worked a high-stakes card game where the players included Frank Sinatra Jr.
Brancato also starred in the short-live TV mob show "Falcone," and guest-starred in a 2002 episode of "NYPD Blue."
His most recent appearance in the headlines came in June, when Brancato was arrested by Yonkers police after they discovered four glassine bags of heroin during a routine traffic stop.
Their dead once in jail. Do the math. For a few favors, some of the inmates will gladly give these guys a shank in the back.
This jerk was never a rising a star. He was always a street punk from Yonkers.
You're in big trouble now, C.
~ Blue Jays ~
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent".
I hope this kid gets life for felony murder.
Kind of prophetic huh?????
No wonder he was so believable as the young tough...
He was never tough. This kid got smacked so many times down here for his big fat mouth. He was a little puny punk with no street credibility at all. He got lucky with a Bronx Tale since he had that little mole on his face. Other than that, he has nothing.
Birds of a feather, IMO.
"On Tuesday, two state troopers were wounded and a drug suspect was killed when shots were fired during a raid in the Bronx."
I know two of the idiots who were arrested in the mess too!
I became a lawyer, they became criminals. No comments please. Where I am from, 25% became normal professional people, 25% became cops for firefighters. 50% became criminals and bums.
Mayor Blooming-idiot of NYC is against the death penalty, even for the murder of a police officer.
dang...that is the kid from that Chazz flick?
wow...now a cop killer...whew.
Well, maybe he picked it up from some of the people he hung with if he was only a punk. I dunno if you saw the episodes in The Sopranos that he was in, but he was good. He was the guy executed by Tony crying for his mother.
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