{"id":58210,"date":"2014-09-30T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58210"},"modified":"2014-09-29T19:34:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:34:30","slug":"fighting-the-mob-the-carmen-basilio-story-to-screen-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58210","title":{"rendered":"Fighting The Mob: The Carmen Basilio Story to Screen Oct. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Basilio<\/a>Carmen Basilio is pictured on the right with Dickie DiVeronica at a past Boxing Hall of Fame event. (Photo by Margo Frink)<\/em><\/p>\n

Also pictured is a young Basilio. (Courtesy Boxing Hall of Fame)\"Basilio\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Canastota, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) On Wednesday Oct 8 at 7 p.m. the Canastota Public Library will screen \u201cFighting the Mob: The Carmen Basilio Story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lou Buttino will be on hand to introduce the documentary and tell us a little about the story of Canastota\u2019s own Carmen Basilio.\u00a0 According to the documentary, Basilio couldn\u2019t be bought by the mob-backed International Boxing Commission and that cost him in time, money and even a shot at the title.\u00a0 But through it all, Basilio kept his honor and helped bust up the mob and realize his childhood dream of becoming welterweight and middleweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n

In this documentary, an ESPN Classic, Buttino served as a consultant and on-camera interviewee.\u00a0 The Basilio story is narrated by actor Paul Sorvino.\u00a0 It was made in 2000.<\/p>\n

Buttino, a 1962 graduate of Canastota High School, recently donated the Basilio documentary and another titled \u201cBroken Brotherhood\u201d to the library.\u00a0 Both DVDs are available in the non-fiction DVD section in October for patrons to borrow.\u00a0 The DVDs will circulate for a one week period.<\/p>\n

\u201cBroken Brotherhood\u201d is an hour-long documentary which depicts the emotional scars left by the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Buttino (director and co-producer) and Robert Aberlin (co-producer) were college friends during the 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 In \u2018Broken Brotherhood\u201d the pair look back on the 60\u2019s through their time at Colgate University and the experiences of their fellow alums regarding the Vietnam War. Decisions made about serving in the war continue to haunt these men\u2014more than thirty years later.\u00a0 Many have never talked about what happened there-even to each other for decades.<\/p>\n

Buttino is a college professor, an author and a filmmaker.\u00a0 For more than two decades, he taught in the Political Science and Communication\/Journalism Departments at St. John Fisher College in Rochester. In 1994, he moved to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he has taught in the Communication, Creative Writing, Film Studies Department as well as the Graduate Liberal Studies program.\u00a0 At UNC, Wilmington, a special Manuscript and Film Collection of his work is now housed at the William M. Randall Library.\u00a0\u00a0 He has written three books and has been involved in the making of more than two dozen documentary projects in various aspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carmen Basilio is pictured on the right with Dickie DiVeronica at a past Boxing Hall of Fame event. (Photo by Margo Frink) Also pictured is a young Basilio. (Courtesy Boxing Hall of Fame) (Canastota, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) On Wednesday Oct 8 at 7 p.m. the Canastota Public Library will screen \u201cFighting the Mob: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}