Chad Jones

S.F. Theater Examiner
Chad Jones has been covering theater in the Bay Area since 1992. He was the theater critic for the Oakland Tribune, Tri-Valley Herald and the San Mateo County Times. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and Theatre Bay Area magazine and he is the author of Web site, Chad Jones' Theater Dogs.

  

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Chazz over `Broadway'

August 27, 9:09 AM
by Chad Jones, S.F. Theater Examiner
 
 

Chazz Palminteri will join me on
stage at the Castro Theatre for a
Q&A after "Bullets Over Broadway"
on Sept. 22.
Let’s go watch a Chazz Palminteri movie … with Chazz Palminteri!

While the venerable movie and stage actor is in town with his one-man show, “A Bronx Tale” (Sept. 23-Oct. 19 at the Golden Gate Theatre), he’s going to head up Market Street to the Castro Theatre for a screening the 1994 Woody Allen movie “Bullets Over Broadway” in which he stars as a brainy thug named Cheech, who’s a much better writer than the playwright David Shayne played by John Cusack. The role nabbed Palminteri an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.

Here’s one of my favorite exchanges between Cheech and David:

David Shayne: You’re gonna write it?

Cheech: What am I? A f***in’ idiot? They taught me how to read and write in school before I burned it down.

David Shayne: You burned down your school?

Cheech: Yeah, it was Lincoln’s birthday. There was nobody there.

Palminteri will submit himself to a Q&A session after the movie, and I will serve as moderator.

Please join us. The movie is at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 22. The Castro Theatre is at 429 Castro St., San Francisco. Admission is $9.50 general, $7 for seniors (62 and up) and children (12 and younger).

You can also enter to win tickets to “A Bronx Tale” (visit www.shnsf.com for information about the show).

Visit www.castrotheatre.com for information about the movie screening.
 

Here's a clip of Palminteri talking about doing his one-man "A Bronx Tale" on Broadway:


Topics: SHN/Best of Broadway , theater news , Chazz Palminteri
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