From the Mob to the Movies: How I Escaped the Mafia and Landed in Hollywood

The public knows him as the character Tony Darvo in the movie Midnight Run, but Richie Salerno was born into the world of the Brooklyn Mafia during the heyday of the New York mob, and for a time it looked like he would get caught up in a life of crime. After all, some of the most notorious figures in the gangster world he knew as uncles, aunts, cousins, and family friends.

During a stint in prison for theft, Richie turned his life around using the tailoring skills he learned from his father ...