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MAIN CAST
TONY
– 40, average good
looks, a resourceful man who always gets it done.
JOEY
- 20’s, a Casanova of
sorts who can’t land the girl of his dreams, (Tony’s
Secretary, Roxy). He looks up to Tony as a mentor,
though usually not taking his advice. He’s waiting for
the “big break” while working as a gopher and a waiter
in his uncle’s restaurant.
ROXY
– 20’s, Tony’s loyal,
sexy secretary who is working on her bachelor’s degree…
She’s head and tails above Joey on every level and lets
him know it. She has a big crush on Tony.
SABRINA
– 30’s, gorgeous and
sophisticated, a high powered Boston attorney, who can’t
change a light bulb on her own… or can she? Calls on
Tony for any problem she has at her office; even
changing a light bulb. We soon find out why she needs
Tony’s “office visits.”
PHIL
CASANOVA
– 40, a chubby plumber who takes his last
name to heart. Tony’s best friend.
BAMBI
– 30, a sexy Russian
model that lives in Tony’s building and calls on Tony
for lots of things.
JOEY
SENIOR –
40, Tony’s one time best friend and now worst enemy.
Joey Senior has money, power, and mob ties, but lacks
the magic that Tony has and it’s all he really wants. A
dark secret exists that only Tony and Joey Senior know
about.
EPISODE
I –
“One if by land, two if by
sea…”
“It seems to have
worked for Paul Revere and for my friend Phil’s
girlfriend…”
Phil asks Tony to keep
an eye on his apartment because he suspects his
girlfriend is cheating on him. Phil has been
moonlighting for extra money working at Logan airport on
the late shift. Tony tells him he’ll keep an eye on
things. Tony figures out that Phil’s girlfriend is
signaling her new boyfriend by putting on “one” light if
Phil is home or “two” lights if Phil is working. The
“two” light signal means it’s time for her new boyfriend
to take a ride.
TONY’S HISTORY - How Tony got
his Mojo…
Tony grew up in the
North End, a second generation Italian like most of the
local kids. Good looking, strong and with natural
athletic ability, he gravitated to the Friend Street gym
across from the Boston Garden and took up boxing. He had
a sparkling amateur career winning the National Golden
Gloves and earning the opportunity to compete for a spot
on the U.S. Olympic Boxing Team. He was a heavy favorite
to represent the U.S. in the middle weight division. His
whole future looked set; an Olympic gold medal, turn
professional, and then a lucrative boxing career; maybe
the first local Italian champ since Marciano. His ring
name was “TnT” because they said his punches where like
dynamite.
Shortly before he was
heading to Las Vegas for the Olympic trials, tragedy
struck. Tony and his best friend Joey, a gangster
wannabe and street hustler who looked for the easy way
out, took Tony for a walk stopping outside an abandoned
brick building.
“This is gonna be my
building after tonight,” Joey told Tony while pointing
to the building.
Tony was skeptical.
“How the hell you gonna work that?”
Joey just laughed and
pointed again. “I worked a deal with the owner. He gets
the full insurance money and I buy at a rock bottom
price with cash. You see, he gets paid twice and I get
the building for a song.”
Tony looked at the
building and saw what Joey was talking about. Black
smoke and flames began shooting from the windows and
roof top. The building was burning. “Are you crazy?”
Tony asked. “Arson?”
“Relax, it’s
abandoned.” Joey replied calmly
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But it wasn’t. A small
child had managed to open a third floor window and was
crying for help. Tony ran for the door and into the
building as a crowd was gathering. He carried the four
year old girl onto a fire escape and as he was making
his way down, the fire escape collapsed. The fall broke
his neck but the child was safe. Tony's boxing career
was over.
At that moment, when
Tony's neck snapped, a new career began for him.
Suddenly, Tony saw more than what was around him. It was
strange for him at first. He saw into the people he
looked at, he felt what they felt; their desires, their
dreams, their hopes, and their fears. Somehow by giving
up everything he desired and dreamed for, and for
putting his own safety aside to save the child’s life,
he was given the power to see into people’s hearts. In
the wrong hands this power could be devastating, but
Tony used it wisely. He always was a straight shooter
and so he would be with this gift. A gift is how he saw
it. It was a gift to help fix peoples lives, not with a
lecture, but with his own insight into what would set
things right.
Of course you can't
make a living this way unless you are Dear Abby so Tony
started TnT Maintenance Company. And in the North End he
became the undisputed champ of fixing a problem where
you lived and a problem of how you lived.
ABOUT
THE NORTH END
The North End is one
of Boston’s oldest neighborhoods. It sits between the
Big Dig and the Boston Harbor. Over the years, the area
has been home to almost every group of immigrants to
come through Boston, but today it is most often
associated with the Italians. The neighborhood is home
to some of the city’s best Italian restaurants, Saint
Anthony’s and The Fisherman’s feasts, cafés, churches
and a hang out for “you know - those guys.” It’s called
Boston’s “Little Italy” and known as the “most Italian
neighborhood in the country.”
The North End played a
major part in American history, particularly in the
American Revolution. Today you can still visit such
historic sites as Paul Revere’s house, the Old North
Church, and the Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, all of which
you can get to by walking Boston’s Freedom Trail which
is marked by a line of red bricks throughout the
sidewalks of the North End.
Though the influx of
yuppies has changed the population over the years, a
walk down Hanover Street on a warm summer night will
still fill your eyes and ears with the sights and sounds
of Italian-American culture. |
