VITO TO YOU
In a Dec. 11 Film Clip, Judy Brennan, writing about a new Al Pacino movie in which he plays the part of a New York mayor, says, “You may even see a little of Mark Antonio, the congressman from New York, in Pacino’s character.”
Could she be referring to Vito Marcantonio, the fiery, left-wing congressman who was elected on the ticket of the American Labor Party for years?
Readers may remember it was Marcantonio’s name that Richard Nixon invoked in his vicious senatorial campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, attempting to tie her votes to his, thereby labeling her as a “left-winger.”
Mark Antonio--Wow!
BILL CONOY
Covina
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