The Importance of Restaurants in the Cinema

"I once ate at the restaurant. I can't remember if it was Louis restaurant or modeled after Louis restaurant, but I ate at there like 25 years ago and had the bill." "My dad used to work on like the city desk in Philadelphia in the newspapers in the 70s and he would write like these sensationalistic headlines for any Philadelphia mafia violence," Tessio says of his time as a journalist. "[Mafia crime] is not really affecting the normal suburban person ... So we can just kind of make it into this kind of. thing that's off to the side... It's also the other great Tessio scene in the movie when he's like, 'It's perfect'