Abel Ferrara's Pizza Connection - Episode 1

The Pizza Connection was an actual FBI case that made the careers of Giuliani and others in both US and Italian law enforcement. The case involved a group of hardcore killers/drug dealers from Sicily who had cornered the world's heroin supply and were now planning to use pizza parlors in NYC and the rest of the US to distribute their product. For every four boxes of mozzarella, one was the babanya, the term they used for the uncut dope. The Sicilians were referred to as Zips, and were about as far from Gucci-wearing non-Italian-speaking American hoods as possible. As one of these characters, whose nickname was "The Strangler of Christians," once said about the American mob, "their problem is they don't understand about massacres, it takes them two weeks of discussion to kill one guy."
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0:12 That ass! Damn! I want it, touch it and marry it. Terminator voice: Give me your ass now!

[@bigmural]

Great - worth watching all of them!

[@gregthegroove]

11 years later my man stars as Francis Ford Coppola in the making of The Godfather in The Offer series. And the audio is off sync. What a shame.

[@dnaisinmybody]

I don't get the many dislikes. Vice is always doing something different and I think that's great.

[@WaddleOfShame]

At first I was like, "The hell? ..." and then I used my brain and read the description box.

[@BornShootah]

I subscribed only for the documentaries...

[@bensons999]

Glad I read this before I watched it.

[@logosfabula]

So you thought Abel Ferrara was a documentarist...

[@mg659er]

this is so unrealistic, EVERYONE knows that only immigrants in NYC make pizzas now.

[@walperstyle]

what if all the Vice shows are actors.... (insert Keanu Reevs image)

[@Sammydx1]

9 years late

[@HaikuMalta]

I actually couldn't tell it was acting until the single-mom extra showed up

[@Jeremyramone]

this is bloody ponderous...

[@Thimmet]

I mean I think he does look like Will Smith a bit

[@kcouch1986]

i made it to 2:30 cant take it

[@msgtblbj]

That's the guy from the ping pong movie, and fanboys

[@2ten2times]

Abel ferrara is responsible for the funeral.. which makes him a fuckin' legend!!

[@Thimmet]

0:41 a Mexican version of Will Smith

[@joebazooks]

Why is the baby real, then a doll, and then real again?

[@DoubleAssClown]

no.

[@thefifakid2010]

what did i just watch

[@98erics]

yup im in the same boat.

[@kosh2001]

this happened like 25 yrs ago

[@zeeworldtrollord6941]

@OnThatPowder - Jelly or Syrup?
I AM ZEEWORLD TROLLORD AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!

[@thedelta88]

they know what they're doing

[@BigCheech-wy9os]

Wtf is this?

[@BGAKIRAKNOXVILLE]

Nope, fuck this I'm out.

[@BoxRob0t]

That was some horrible acting.

[@rcrespo357]

dude i told you

[@ehgawshee1]

whos the thick chick that walked in?

[@JanoyCresva]

Oh THAT was acting'?

[@doctim111]

I always go ta Abel's fo' my Smack.

[@DoubleAssClown]

Dan Fogler

[@b22munky]

Ghey

[@runnininja]

I dont understand. I enjoyed it :/

[@philipbourne]

Uno !

[@ThatsRipe]

furts.

[@House55921]

i want fucking documentary

[@genesismccloud4200]

This was pretty awesome hehe, fuck the haters baby.~