Also the niche with the statue of the Virgin Mary grinding the snake under her foot. My grandmother was the one who had the pOrtrait of the Sacred Heart. I was the one who took the church seriously. They figured that wasn’t any of the priest’s business. When the church wanted to delve into personal lives, how many children they should have, my parents shied away from that. We enjoy life, we put the church in a certain perspective.” My parents were able to do that. Italian-Italian Catholics, like my assistant Rafael Donato, who says, “We’re really pagans. And I don’t think the church figured into their life that much. Their idea was survival my father went to work when he was nine years old there was hardly room to sleep you had to fight, you literally had to fight with your brothers and sisters for food and attention if you got into trouble, you had to know enough to stay on the streets for two nights. My parents grew up Americans, Italian-Americans. Harvey Keitel and Martin Scorsese on the set of The Last Temptation Of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
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