When Sal and Angie were first being watched, they stayed up all night, had breakfast and then changed cars a couple times. Then Sal gets a couple of bundles of newspapers out of the trunk, and he and Angie start stuffing them with other newspapers (These were known as "Inserts" when I was a kid delivering papers). Were they trying to give the audience the impression that they were hiding heroin in the newspapers? Thanks
shareNo, the point of the scene was that Doyle and Russo thought they were tracking a major drug dealer (which Sal turned out to be). The detectives were shocked when the elegant monied couple switched cars and identities and became lowly candy store proprietors. Putting the inserts into the Sunday papers was just establishing the mundane nature of their jobs.
shareOh, now I get it. Thanks for explaining that to me. Also it was kind of puzzling when Sal made that drop and we were never told who he was dropping to and what he was dropping off. Anyway, thanks again!
shareI wonder if Sal and Angie lived above the candy store?
shareNo. In real life, Patsy and Barbara Fuca's store was in Bushwick, not terribly far from where the luncheonette in the film was, but they lived about 10 miles away in Bensonhurst. The book makes a big deal of this, chronicling the detectives following the suspects back and forth between house and store. Even in the screenplay, which is available on-line, there are a couple of un-filmed scenes of Sal and Angie at home.
shareThank you for sharing. I read the book decades ago and do not remember where the couple lived. I love their creative accounting.
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I don't know if they still do this nowadays, what with the internet and downsizing and such, but back in the day, the New York Times Sunday paper was truly enormous. There were like a dozen different sections or so. So the Times would deliver the less time sensitive parts of the paper (Travel, Lifestyles, Book Review, Classifieds, etc.) to the vendors on Saturday, and the more time sensitive parts (News sections, sports, The Week in Review) on Sunday morning. The vendor would then have to put these two big parts of the paper together.
New Yorkers would know this, and know that they weren't stuffing heroin in the papers. Sorry, but you've outed yourself as a non-native!
Indeed, back then, you could also buy the "Sunday" paper late on Saturday night, after around 11pm or so. They printed more than one edition per day back then.
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You're good, jgroub. Yes, that's the way it is still done today. NY Sunday Times can be picked up around 11pm on Saturday night after the truck delivers the current news sections, and the store owner inserts them into the body of the newspaper.
shareI used to work at the Times. The less "time-sensitive" sections always appeared sometime on Thursday evening. Before the Saturday "bulldog" issues began, the first edition Sunday "news" section hit the presses around 6 pm Saturday. First editions usually could be found on the street in Manhattan by 10 pm.
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