{"id":2521,"date":"2020-12-06T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2020-12-06T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T19:43:22","slug":"celebrities-call-in-to-celebrate-cherished-culture-and-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/golf\/lifestyle\/2521\/celebrities-call-in-to-celebrate-cherished-culture-and-cuisine","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Call In to Celebrate Cherished Culture and Cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney coined the phrase \u201cit\u2019s a small world, after all\u201d in its float-through theme park ride and the (maddeningly) unforgettable, repeating song which scores the classic attraction. The theme also plays out frequently though the guests on my morning radio program.<\/p>\n

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Little Italy in New York transports travelers into the movies, too. (Photo by: Harrison Shiels)<\/p><\/div>\n

During a recent live radio broadcast I interviewed, via, telephone, movie and TV actor Robert Davi, who appeared in such smash hit films as \u201cDie Hard,\u201d \u201cGoonies,\u201d and the 007 movie \u201cLicense to Kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I may have seen you once in Little Italy in New York. Did you possibly go right past me on a float?\u201d I asked him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, that was me. Wow! I was the grand marshal of the 2008 Feast of San Gennaro Festival,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

If you ever want to feel like you\u2019re in a \u201cGodfather\u201d movie, Little Italy, especially during that event, is the place to do it. Scenes in two of the films were shot amid its old-fashioned Mulberry Street restaurants and storefronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a great piece of New York,\u201d Davi confirmed to me, \u201cbut unfortunately Little Italy getting smaller and smaller over there. And by the way what was an Irish guy like you doing in Little Italy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of Italian restaurants, Davi, while playing the Bond villain in \u201cLicense to Kill,\u201d said the film\u2019s producer Barbara Broccoli told him he could also have made a good 007. Broccoli is known to crave the cuisine of a cucina that came up in my recent conversation with CNN\u2019s Clarissa Ward, who called into my radio show from London where she serves as the network\u2019s chief international correspondent.<\/p>\n