But in the Hip-Hop Nation, he will always be best remember ed as Sal, proprietor of Sal’s Famous Pizza in Spike Lee’s landmark film Do The Right Thing. TMZ reports that Aiello died on Thursday ...

Everett CollectionSpike Lee in Do the Right Thing, 1989. Stars: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro. Director: Spike Lee Distributor: Universal Pictures Academy ...

Sal’s Famous Pizzeria was the local pizza joint on Stuyvesant Avenue in Bed-Stuy. ... Aiello’s role in Do the Right Thing earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.

In 1989, the warnings were dire that the Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing” would provoke violence and disrupt race relations. Instead, it provoked conversation - and still is 30 years later.

Do The Right Thing's exploration of racial tension, ... Black pizza delivery guy working for Sal Frangione, an Italian-American business owner in his neighborhood; ...

For Do the Right Thing's 25th anniversary, Complex looks the Bed-Stuy filming locations today. ... Like Fruit and Vegetable Deligiht, Sal's Famous PIzza was never real; ...

Spike Lee‘s breakthrough film, “Do The Right Thing,” centered around Sal’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn, an Italian-American-owned restaurant in a black neighborhood.

Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window.At the climax of Spike Lee's 1989 drama "Do The Right Thing," the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a ...

Do the Right Thing follows one hot day in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Seemingly small incidents eventually boil over into an explosive confrontation.

But let's put a pin in that for a minute, and let's talk about Mookie and Sal. It's been hard not to think about Spike Lee's 1989 classic Do The Right Thing over the last two weeks, let alone the ...

An all-ages Brooklyn crowd showed up to the Harvey Theatre on Sunday, wearing sundresses and suits and caps and red BOYCOTT SAL’S T-shirts. “Do the Right Thing,” about a day in the life of a ...