Bit o’ Once Upon A Time In America trivia: My good friend and a helluva character Roger Fawcett played the drunk at Moe’s who the kids rolled in a scene that is usually edited out on the rare occasions that the film is shown on tv. The scene took only one day to shoot, but Sergio Leone liked Roger so much he kept him on the payroll and had him hang around the set for the entire shoot in NYC.

Roger was on the front lines of the Stonewall “riots.” I keep telling him he should write a book about the things he’s seen and the people he’s known.