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Sal!: Twitter Salutes Late ‘Do The Right Thing’ Actor Danny Aiello

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Danny Aiello In "Do The Right Thing'

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Danny Aiello was a storied actor with quite a distinguished career. But in the Hip-Hop Nation, he will always be best remember ed as Sal, proprietor of Sal’s Famous Pizza in Spike Lee’s landmark film Do The Right Thing.

TMZ reports that Aiello died on Thursday (Dec. 12) night. He was 86.

Reportedly, the New York native passed away at a medical facility in New Jersey where he was being treated for a sudden. His death was unexpected as he was dealing with a sudden illness.

Aiello’s first gig was in Robert De Niro’s Bang the Drum Slowly and other notable films in his filmography include The Godfather: Part II, Once Upon a Time in America, Moonstruck and we’re going to go ahead and throw Harlem Nights in there. He also played Madonna’s Papa in her “Papa Don’t Preach” video.

As for Do The Right Thing, the 1989 film earned him Best Supporting Actor nomination from the Academy.

Said Spike Lee on Instagram:

“I’m 💜 Broken. Just Found Out My Brother DANNY AIELLO Made His Transition Last Night. Danny,We Made Cinema History Together With DO THE RIGHT THING. May You Rest In PARADISE.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿”

Rest in power Danny Aiello. Peep the reactions to his passing from the likes of Lee, Rosie Perez, Cher and more below.

 

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Chuck D Does ‘Fight the Power’ at Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ 30th Anniversary Block Party! Crowd Goes Nuts!!!!

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“1989… The number… Another summer… Sounds of the funky drummer…”

On Sunday, June 30th, Spike Lee hosted the 30th anniversary of his Academy Awards nominated film, Do the Right Thing on the actual block that it was shot (a street now named Do the Right Thing Way). While the Oscar-award winning director paraded a cool dozen notables from his cinematic family, it was one live performance that totally encapsulated the spirit of the film. If you were not alive in 1989, seeing Chuck D perform the epic classic “Fight the Power” live would have given you a pretty good sense of what that era was like.

READ MORE: Rosie Perez Tells The World “Spike Lee Changed My Life”

Chuck D started his set by shouting out WLIB.

He noted:

“We know we had the music jumping off, and Frankie Crocker doing his thing and 98Kiss… You know the 80s were the R&B decade (Reagan and Bush), and General Koch in this city… They wanted to forget this borough. This brother right here, set forth culture, wisdom, knowledge and understanding (and overstanding). He would never, ever let this borough or its people be forgotten. There are things that you go to fight for. Put up the peace sign and say ‘peace.’ Say ‘power.’ Say ‘love.’ And we love you right here on the 30th anniversary, on Do the Right Thing Way. This borough is about human beings. Accepts for being human beings. We are not trying to be better than nobody.  We know we got to be twice as smart, twice as good and sometimes twice as hardcore. We have to fight for love, fight for peace and fight for power!”

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Rosie Perez Tells The World “Spike Lee Changed My Life”

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On Sunday, June 30th, Spike Lee hosted the 30th anniversary of his Academy Awards nominated film, Do the Right Thing on the actual block that it was shot (a street now named Do the Right Thing Way). While the Oscar-award winning director paraded a cool dozen notables from his cinematic family, there was no one that fans wanted to see more than the pint-size Boricua that played Tina, Rosie Perez. In the movie, Tina was Mookie’s (played by Lee) girlfriend and baby’s mother. Prior to the role, Perez was known for her high energy gyrations and “pump-it-up” choreography on Soul Train and In Living Color. But after appearing in the DTRT, she would forever be the girl with the thick Brooklarican accent and how she pronounced her man’s name, “Moookieee.”

(Depending on who you ask, you might disagree and say the “ice scene,” but you know… we remember her well!)

READ MORE: Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” Returns to Theaters for the 30th Anniversary

When Spike pulled her up on the stage, she teased us with that legendary dance sequence from the movie…

But then went on to give a sweet speech about how Lee changed her life.

Perez said to the hyped up crowd, filled with adoring fans, “I can’t believe I danced, but that’s all for Brooklyn. Boricuas!!!! 30 years ago, I met this man and he changed my life. And we need men like him in Hollywood. And we are doing it and we are going to take over, baby. And it takes a man like Spike Lee to help push those doors down. And I appreciate that. I am getting emotional because he literally changed my life. And I thank you.”

She ended her remarks with a line from the movie: “And he so stuuuupppiiiiddd even!”

Rosie!

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Spike said that the reason why he chose Rosie is because he wanted to show solidarity between African-Americans and Puerto Ricans. There are 3,195,153 people in Puerto Rico… in the five boroughs???? 723,621.

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Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ Returns to Theaters for the 30th Anniversary

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On its 30th anniversary, Spike Lee’s cinematic classic Do The Right Thing will be returning to theaters.  Universal Pictures has partnered with the Criterion Collection to celebrate the 1989 Oscar-nominated classic film by showing a 4K restoration version nationwide in select theaters beginning June 28, according to Deadline.

Screenings and “one-week engagements” will take place at select AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and Alamo Drafthouse theaters. The groundbreaking film will also be shown in select New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Brookline, MA theaters in the original 35mm version

“When Spike Lee’s revolutionary Do the Right Thing was released by Universal Pictures 30 years ago this June, it ignited a national conversation on race and race relations in America that challenged our assumptions about ourselves and our country and heralded the arrival of a generation-defining filmmaker,” said Jim Orr, Universal’s President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution.

Do the Right Thing was produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee and Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The story follows a Brooklyn neighborhood’s engulfed in racial tension.

The film went on to be a commercial success and received numerous accolades, including Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Aiello’s portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. It is often listed among the greatest films of all time.

In 1999, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant” in its first year of eligibility by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

On July 23, the Criterion Collection also will celebrate the 30th anniversary with a Blu-ray/DVD release of a director-approved definitive edition featuring the new 4K restoration.

 

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