You might have already seen the Di Fara short documentary The Best Thing I Ever Donehere on Slice (indeed, I just embedded it above again), but if you live in NYC, you can see it again, on the big screen, followed by a Q&A session with proprietor Dom DeMarco's daughter Margaret — and possibly Dom himself, if he's feeling up to it, says M. Emily MacKenzie, the film's director.
[Photograph: Sony Pictures] Famed Naples pizzeria L'Antica Pizzeria Da Michele gets a star turn in the book-cum-movie Eat, Pray, Love, when Julia Roberts eats pizza there. Pizzeria Da Michele: Via Cesare Sersale 1, 80139, Naples, Italy (map); 081 5539204; damichele.net. [Photograph courtesy of Robert Sietsema] The scene is inspired from the following passage (after the jump) in Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling feel-good memoir....
From A. O. Scott's review of Cop Out: In the film's favor, it should be noted that this chase winds through some actual Brooklyn locations, including a sylvan corner of Prospect Park and --twice! -- the L&B Spumoni Gardens, a venerable and beloved al fresco pizzeria in Bensonhurst that serves some of the best Sicilian pie in the borough. But local color and playful good humor will only take you so far, and "Cop Out" does not amount to much more than a blooper reel in search of a movie. L&B SPUMONI GARDENS 2725 86th Street, Brooklyn NY 11223 (map)...
Am I crazy or have I never blogged the famous Jeff Spicoli–Mr. Hand classroom pizza delivery scene from Fast Times here on Slice? That last post re Phoebe Cates naturally jogged the memory. Enjoy....
Photograph from Sony Pictures Entertainment As far as pizzeria names go, Nicky's Pizza is a pretty popular one. From Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to Saugus, Massachusetts, Nicky definitely gets around. But the facade of the one in Julie & Julia (in theaters August 7) doesn't actually exist. When asked about the storefront below her apartment, Julie Powell told us that in real life, it was a diner. The fictionalized pizzeria on 40th Avenue in Long Island City, often flashed on screen before a kitchen scene upstairs with Powell, cannot actually be reached at 718-555-0163. Like all Hollywood and TV-show 555- numbers,...
Albert Grande mentioned last week that his pizza tour was canceled because one of the stops—L&B Spumoni Gardens—was closed for a movie shoot. Here's a photo from the shoot, courtesy of NBC Universal's Recent Postings blog....
Before it was called Mystic Pizza, and before it inspired the namesake movie with Julia Roberts, the Connecticut seaside mom-and-pop was called Ted's. Definitely didn't have the same ring to it, and owner Stefanos Zelepos knew that. He later changed it to Mystic, asking himself, "who is this Ted guy?" Twenty years after the movie—a coming-of-age centered around three girls working at the pizza parlor—Mystic Pizza still inspires visitors who want to know, was it really filmed there? Did Julia Robers really breathe here? Technically, no. That would have required closing down the place for six months, which at...
Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got ... Adam, I don't know if you've seen Ghostbusters II, but, there's a scene where Dan Ayckroyd's character is discussing what to eat with Harold Ramis's character: "Chinese?" "Thai?" "Na, too spicy." "Pizza!" "Thick or thin?" "Chicago." (Ayckroyd's character). My question is, in 1989 (or even today), would there have been any place in NYC to get a Chicago style of pizza? I'm thinking that this was Ackryod's little joke on NYC. Thanks, Thomas H. Saline, Michigan...
Went to the NYC Food Film Festival last night and had a pretty good time. Festival co-organizer George Motz screened his short film Brooklyn Pizza, and the short documentary Pure and Simple, a day in the life of Una Pizza Napoletana, was also shown. Photos and such, after the jump....
I've gotta hand it to Domino's. They've come up with a pretty clever viral-marketing stunt in the creation of the fictional Gotham City Pizzeria website. It's got just enough detail to be fun, with an About Us page that gives the owners' story ("more than 200 locations throughout the City ... Now nobody has an excuse to eat bad pizza in Gotham") and Our Pledge to Gotham, in which GCP promises to support Batman. Two-Face Trailer: There's a "secret" link to a Two-Face trailer if you hover over the "HA" in Gotham on the GCP page. [Tip o' the hat...
