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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Case Review: Chazz Palminteri On What Mafia Films Get Wrong

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Emily revisits her conversation with famed actor and writer Chazz Palminteri as they discuss how his real-life encounters with the mafia led him to become an actor.   Chazz describes his childhood amidst neighborhood mob violence and how it inspired him to create the film, A Bronx Tale. Later, he looks back at how the mob is portrayed in movies, and discusses what Hollywood gets right and wrong about how it portrays the mafia. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunch break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go on some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org

0:29.3

this is the fox true crime podcast today we bring you a case review a young boy sits on the stoop of his apartment, nestled among the drug

0:38.9

stores, bookie joints, and bakeries that lined 187th Street in New York City.

0:45.4

1961, in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, nine-year-old Caljaro watched as a couple of men

0:51.8

began fighting over a parking spot in front of him.

0:55.5

The altercation escalated as one of the men pulled out a baseball bat, attacking the other.

1:01.2

In defense, he pulled out a gun.

1:04.2

And all of a sudden,

1:07.2

Caljaro watched the man fall to the street in a pool of his own blood.

1:12.0

Standing just five feet away, Caljaro made eye contact with the Italian boss responsible

1:17.2

for the murder. You may recognize this story as the opening scene from a Bronx tale,

1:23.7

but for Chas Palmentary, he lived this very moment, and it changed the course of his life.

1:30.2

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

2:04.6

Thank you. Chas Palmetry is known for writing and starring in the legendary A Bronx Tale,

2:10.3

and for his additional iconic roles in films like Bullets Over Broadway and the usual suspects.

2:16.1

But Chaz credits his Hollywood success to his parents' influence and his life growing up.

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