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A Farruggio Original: The Phone Man Par Excellence

A Farruggio Original: The Phone Man Par Excellence

If one was making his life into a movie, Larry would be played by Michael Richards AKA Kramer. He was 6′ 2 with that same kooky hair that Kramer had. Always slouched down a bit, with the quintessential cigarette dangling from his mouth, Larry didn’t...
Good cops/bad cops

Good cops/bad cops

In John Sayles 1987 film Matewan, concerning the 1920 coal miners’ strike in West Virginia, not all cops were of the same ilk as the Baldwin-Felts private detectives. Those ‘rent a cops’ were deputized by the authorities, at the behest of the powerful mining...
What The World Needs Now…

What The World Needs Now…

In 1965 Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the giant hit song made popular by singer Jackie Deshannon , What the World Needs Now is Love. I enclose the lyrics: What the World Needs Now Is Love What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing,...
A Farruggio Original ‘The Brother’s Visit’

A Farruggio Original ‘The Brother’s Visit’

He loved his brother, from the time he realized he had one. Three years older than him, his brother always had that allure of someone way up upon a pedestal. As a four year old sitting in the apartment kitchen with his mother and paternal grandmother, he could get so...
A Farruggio Original: The Deportation

A Farruggio Original: The Deportation

He was working as a wood craftsman when the ICE agents showed up at the jobsite. A few of his fellow workers started to flee the premises, but he stood there with his tools in his hands. The agents grabbed him, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. HIs brow...