Mosaic Flowerpots on Film
Mosaic Flowerpots on Film
A 1971 movie reveals the mother lode of Brooklyn planters.
I recently watched the pre-Godfather mob farce The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight—purely for professional reasons, I assure you—and had to resist the urge to fast-forward the scenes of gangster hokum and mafia minstrelsy. Even with
a young Robert DeNiro as an Italian cyclist and Jerry Orbach as a bumbling hood (based on “Crazy” Joe Gallo), the film is painful to sit through. But just at the moment when I was ready to call it quits, a short scene came on the screen depicting a Brooklyn house with pebble mosaics unlike anything seen to date.