Some of the Italian groups who had national chart hits included Dion and the Belmonts in 1958 with " I Wonder Why ", The Capris with " There's A Moon Out Tonight " in 1960, The Demensions, The Elegants, The Mystics, The Duprees, Vito & the Salutations, The Gaylords, Johnny Maestro, and The Del-Satins.

There was a revival of the nonsense-syllable form of doo-wop in the early 1960s, with popular records by The Marcels, The Rivingtons, and Vito & the Salutations.

Greg Dyke, Darth Vader, The Duke of Edinburgh, Saruman and Christopher Lee, Don Vito Corleone, Michael Caine, Derren Brown, Professor Snape & Alan Rickman, Jack Nicholson, Jamie Oliver, Jacques Chirac, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw, Marlon Brando, Bruce Forsyth, Osama Bin Laden, Senator John Kerry, Leo McGarry, Ninth Doctor Who & Christopher Eccleston, Prince Charles, Gerry Adams, Justin Hawkins, Jon Snow, Jimmy Hill, Stelios Haji-Ioannou ( on radio ), Alistair Cooke ( on radio ), Tony Robinson, Lord Hutton, Jimmy Savile, Adolf Hitler, God, Judas Iscariot, Russell Brand, Jeremy Vine, Evan Davis, Neil Burgess a. k. a. Barry Scott, Donald Duck

Vito & the Salutations scored a success in 1963 with an up-tempo version of the song " Unchained Melody ," which reached number 60 on the Cash Box hit parade and made the top ten in many cities.

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In December 2007, Visionaire released an issue named Visionaire 53: Sound which comprises five 12 " records featuring contributions from over 100 artists including David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew W. K., Danger Mouse, Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, The Knife, Littl ' ans, UNKLE, Animal Collective, SunnO ))), Gang Gang Dance, DJ Spooky, Miss Kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara, as well as fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Stefano Pilati, and many others.

* The Reverend Vito A. Buonanno, Associate Rector & Director of Pilgrimages

* Story Film Classics: Hardcore Film Classics: Vito & The Love Bandit ( 2006 )

San Vito Press & Double Elephant Press, 10th Impression

Originally the group consisted of Master P, Mystikal and Silkk The Shocker ( under the aliases Nino Brown, G. Money, & Vito respectively ).

The GLAAD Vito Russo Award is a special GLAAD Media Award presented annually by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

His Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies ( New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972 ) was one of the first books about homosexuality and film, preceding Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet ( 1981 ).

As of 2012, the Elegants are still performing at concerts and events throughout the United States, under the name " Vito Picone & The Elegants ".

* Vito Piccone & The Elegants

It is the first to claim a film character who identifies as a lesbian, and film historian Vito Russo considers the film a complex treatment of a multifaceted character who is forced into silence about her openness by other lesbians.

Film critic Marie Brenner writes that " for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... performance deserves to be compared with the very finest.

Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast, providing spectacular views.

It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

The Corleone family patriarch is Vito Corleone ( The Don ), whose surname ( Italian for " Lionheart ") recalls the town of Corleone, Sicily.

Vito Corleone is also the godfather of singer and movie star Johnny Fontane.

The godfather referred to in the title is generally taken to be Vito.

Other attractions include the Norman Arc, that is the remains of the old Norman Castle built in 1073 and demolished in 1880, and a number of churches, including the Royal Saint Nicholas ( San Nicolò Regale ) Church, a rare example of Norman architecture built in 1124, the Seminary, built in 1710, which surrounds the main local piazza, Piazza della Repubblica, and St. Vitus on the Sea ( San Vito a Mare ) Church.

The Great Sea is separated from the Ionian Sea by the Capo San Vito, the Isole Cheradi of St Peter and St Paul, and the three islands of San Nicolicchio, which are completely incorporated by the steel plant.

The title character of Vito Corleone in Mario Puzo's The Godfather was considered by many to be largely based on Bonanno, although the character is in many ways a composite of several figures.

Sal's younger son, Vito ( Edson ), is friends with Mookie.

The main storyline, following the events of the first film, centers on Michael Corleone ( Pacino ), the new Don of the Corleone crime family, trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959 ; the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone ( De Niro ), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to his founding of the Corleone family in New York City.

: In 1901 Corleone, Sicily, nine-year-old Vito Andolini ’ s family is killed after his father insults local Mafia chieftain Don Ciccio.

He escapes to New York and is registered as " Vito Corleone " on Ellis Island.

As a favor to his neighbor, Peter Clemenza, Vito hides a stash of guns ; in return, he is invited to the burglary of a rich apartment.

When Ciccio asks Vito who his father was, Vito says, " My father's name was Antonio Andolini, and this is for you!

Vito is heard at the door and all but Michael leave the room to greet him.

Vitus is the patron saint of the city of Rijeka in Croatia, the towns of Ciminna in Sicily, Forio on the Island of Ischia, in Campania, Italy, the contrada of San Vito, in Torella dei Lombardi, in Avellino, Italy, the town of Winschoten in the Netherlands, and the town of St. Vith located in Belgium.

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

* In the HBO television series, The Sopranos, in season 6 episode " Johnny Cakes ", " That's Amore " is heard when Vito Spatafore is cooking.

* The character of " Vito Corleone " in the book and 1972 film The Godfather is based on a composite of mid-20th Century New York Mafia figures, perhaps chief among them Frank Costello.

Vito Antuofermo (; born February 9, 1953 ) is an Italian-American actor and retired professional boxer.

" Along with Italian-American associates Vito Genovese and Tommy " Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese and Jewish associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, the gang became involved in robbery, theft, extortion, gambling and narcotics.

In the 1920s and early 1930s, Italian Harlem was represented by future Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Congress, and later by Italian-American socialist Vito Marcantonio.

* Salvatore Maranzano is sent to New York by Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro in an attempt to unify the New York Italian-American gangs into a single organization.

It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City ( and Long Beach, New York ) and headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia.

: In 1917, Vito Corleone ( Robert De Niro ) lives in a tenement with his wife Carmela and son Sonny, and works in a New York grocery store owned by the father of a close friend.

: Vito has become a respected figure in his New York community.

* Vito Russo Papers, 1969-1990 ( 21 linear feet ) are housed at the New York Public Library.

Vito Marcantonio was elected to Congress in 1934 from New York.

Castellano was a cousin to Major General Vito Castellano a commander of the New York National Guard and chief of staff for Governor Mario Cuomo.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

New artists with radical performances were Chris Burden, with the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters, and Vito Acconci in the same year with Seedbed.

Present were such figures as Joe Adonis and Albert " The Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Frank Costello, Joseph " Joe Bananas " Bonanno, Vito Genovese, Moe Dalitz, Thomas Luchese, from New York, Santo Trafficante Jr. from Tampa, Carlos Marcello from New Orleans, and Stefano Magaddino, Joe Bonanno's cousin from Buffalo.

Maranzano refused Don Vito Corleone's proposal to share his monopoly on gambling in New York City, in exchange for police and political contacts and expansion into Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Francis was born in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero, Sr., and Ida Franconero ( née Ferrari-di Vito ), spending her first years in a Brooklyn neighborhood on Utica Avenue / St.

Abandoned by his girlfriend on New Year's Eve, and still unaware that his beloved cat Tennessee ( named after the playwright Tennessee Williams ) has died in an animal clinic, hopeless New York actor Jimmy Zoole is feeling depressed and unstable when he happens across a cat burglar, Vito, in his apartment.

An Affectionate History of the World's Greatest Theatre, with special color photography by James Stewart Morcom and Vito Torelli, New York: Dutton, 1979.

Vito Hannibal Acconci ( born January 24, 1940 ) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.

In 1973 he joined the Philadelphia Eagles for one season and finished his career in the short-lived World Football League as a member of the New York Stars in 1974 where he joined former Super Bowl III alumni George Sauer, Jr, Randy Beverly, John Dockery, John Elliott, and Vito ( Babe ) Parilli.

* International Labor Defense, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York ; Chairman: Vito Marcantonio, J. Brodsky

When Vito Spatafore came back from New Hampshire, Silvio said that there would be popular sentiment to get rid of him, but Tony had initially decided to let Vito run a prostitution ring in Atlantic City.