Oct
14
I wondered why Chazz Palminteri’s “A Bronx Tale” was suddenly booked into the Venetian Showroom for a limited run this month.
Was it because Palminteri is Italian, and his semi-autobiographical solo show fits the casino’s Italianate theme? Because Wayne Brady canceled all his October dates in the showroom?
Because Palminteri felt like ending his yearlong national tour with a comfy work-play stint in Las Vegas?
Whatever the reason, this richly comic and compelling “Bronx Tale” fits in here like a bespoke Armani suit or a pair of Gucci loafers. With its doo-wop heart and street-wise soul, it’s a close cousin to “Jersey Boys” at the adjacent Palazzo.
Snazzy in a sharp charcoal suit, shooting his cuffs underneath a streetlamp at the Bronx, Palminteri situates us in 1960, where his wide-eyed 9-year-old self, Calogero Palminteri, watches over his world from a concrete stoop at the corner of 187th Street and Belmont Avenue. Read more..
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Oct
14
Given the tong wars between the Yankees and the Red Sox over the years, it was a bit of an eye-opener for the New Yorkers that the Los Angeles Angels dismissed Boston with such ease.
It should also be a tap on the shoulder for the Bronx Bombers. If they didn’t feel at all uneasy before, they should now.
The Angels have been one of the best teams in baseball the past eight years. Five times in that span, they have won the AL West. In one of the years they didn’t — 2002 — they won the World Series. In those eight years, they have averaged 93 wins a year and only twice in that time period have they won fewer than 90 games.
In recent years, though, they have underachieved quite dramatically in October. After they won the World Series as a wild-card team in 2002, they won just one playoff series in the next five. That one win was over the Yankees in the 2005 League Division Series. In the other four series until this year, the Angels had won two games and lost 13. Read more..
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