Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Nick Apollo Forte: Lou Canova

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• Lou Canova : This is what you get when you eat too much. Uno, two!

  [singing] 

  Lou Canova : Agita, my gumba, in the banzone, When I eat, he gets a treat like a canzone, He enjoys every meal, every bite that I steal, Agita, my gumba, in the banzone, Da-da-da-da-da, Some people like their pizza, some people like suffrite, And others like hot pepper on everything they eat, You hunger with a vuole to taste some bacala, Then all at once you think "Will I answer to gumba?" Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, My lovely, lovely woman, I hate to see her cry, But when I start to mangia, I get the evil eye, My vuole's gettin' stronger, ah, to hell with my gumba...

• Lou Canova : Do me a favor. I want to go across the street and get one white rose.

  Danny Rose : You want to get a white rose?

  Lou Canova : One white rose.

  Danny Rose : What do you want a white rose?

  Lou Canova : I met this chick.

  Danny Rose : Oh, Lou. Lou, don't tell me about it; because, you know, you're gonna get caught in a hotel room. You're gonna wind up paying three alimonies, not two.

  Lou Canova : No, no, no. This is a classy chick.

• Lou Canova : [singing]  Bambina, remember the stories, Your mama, my mama, would say, Keep Italian in your heart, Let it always be a part, Of you, Never let it fade away, Be a part of every day, Let it stay in your heart for ever, Put Italian in your heart, Let it always be a part, Of you, Never let it fade away...

• Danny Rose : I think about you in the long run. That's what I'm sayin'. You're - you're the kinda guy that will always make a beautiful dollar in this business. You know what I mean? You're what I call a perennial. You - you get better lookin' as you get older.

  Lou Canova : That's true. When I'm out there singin', I can feel the women mentally undressing me. It's true!