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Almost as frustrating as this cardboard characterization is the fact that scattered throughout this rather awful movie are the makings of a very good one. Director DiPietro is just in the wrong genre. Whenever the film strays into the territory of romantic comedy, it actually works. The lines are funny, the soundtrack is snappy, and the atmosphere is ideal. The actors are winning, if cookie-cutter, and know how to tell a joke. DiPietro is also a very artful showman, able to convey his characters’ emotions through unlikely angles and lush camera work. When his characters...
...musical comedy, with music by Jimmy Roberts and book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro, is off-Broadway's current longest-running musical, second only to “The Fantasticks” for longest-running of all time. Premiered in 1996 with the tagline “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit,” the play presents a series of vignettes on the ever-elusive subject of love. The scenes follow the same general progression as most relationships, from jittery first-dates...
...Dr.Don DiPietro had pathology. He was slurring his speech, stumbling as he walked, so much so that people thought he was drunk. Don was one of the best cardiologists at our hospital, a heart specialist who was also a "real doctor," and he diagnosed and treated everything he could. An Ivy-league graduate with a fascination for the Sopranos world, he had his eccentricities. But Don was a pillar of our medical community, smart, hard-working and always attuned to the subtleties...
...last week, the favored Canadians learned that a little more grounding was still in order. After opening wins against Italy and Germany, Canada got reality-checked by the surprising Swiss, who triumphed 2-0 on Saturday. To add insult to injury, the two Swiss goals were scored by Paul DiPietro, a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, who played for the Stanley Cup- winning Montreal Canadiens...
Upon entering the house—whose crowded atmosphere could be described as a cross between the annual Filene’s Basement wedding gown sale and a room party crashed by freshmen—DiPietro remarked, “You’d think they were giving ’em away...