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The Shoemaker's Danny Aiello on His Emotional Stage Role, Playing Tough Guys and Kicking Nicolas Cage's Ass by Gemma Wilson

From The Godfather to The Last Don to his Oscar-nominated turn in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Danny Aiello has played plenty of tough Italians in his impressive film career—but never one quite like the one he's currently tackling on the off-Broadway stage. As the title character in Susan Charlotte’s The Shoemaker, Aiello plays an aging cobbler holed up in his Hell’s Kitchen shop on Sep…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PM on August 1, 2011

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