Enzo Stuarti, an Italian tenor who performed in Broadway musicals and at Carnegie Hall, and did popular TV commercials plugging a spaghetti sauce, has died of heart failure in Midland, Texas.
Stuarti, 86, died Friday, family members said.
Larry Stuart said his father appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions, including “Around the World in 80 Days,” “South Pacific” and “Kiss Me Kate.”
He performed under the names Larry Lawrence and Larry Stuart before taking the name Enzo Stuarti, his son said.
Stuarti was a frequent guest on television talk shows, including the “Ed Sullivan Show,” the Mike Douglas show and the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.”
Besides his singing career, Stuarti appeared in commercials for Ragu spaghetti sauce, delivering the “That’s a-nice” line about the sauce.
“Those commercials helped his fame,” his son said.
Stuarti’s albums, which covered everything from pop to opera, included “Enzo Stuarti Arrives At Carnegie Hall” and “Bravo Stuarti! Soft and Sentimental.”
Mafia giant, Vincent ‘The Chin’ Gigante dies in jail
Mob boss Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers, feigning mental illness, died Monday in prison in New York. He was 77.
The head of the Genovese crime family, who had suffered from heart disease, died at the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., said prison spokesman Al Quintero. It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61.
Dubbed the “Oddfather” for his bizarre behavior, Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors, but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
After a quarter-century of public craziness, he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
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