Bill Dal Cerro, Officer and Midwest Spokesman of The Italic Institute was quoted in Bill Zwecker's Column today (1/28), in the Chicago Sunday Times, marking a SAD "milestone" in the Depiction of Italian Americans in Film. 

Dal Cerro is the inspiration of The Italic Institute's "The Image Research Project", initiated in 1995, and can be found at << http://www.italic.org/imageb1.htm >> 

Bill is also The Italic Institute's Media Director, and is a film critic for Fra Noi Italian American newspaper in Chicago. He also operates the Web Site:  VIVAT! 
at << http://www.stereotypethis.com >>
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Chicago Sun Times
Bill Zwecker
Columnist
January 28, 2003 

......* Meanwhile, a prominent Italian-American organization is speaking out against another Affleck flick. (The filming of "Surviving Christmas" was previously mentioned).

The Italic Institute of America is blasting next summer's ''Gigli'' as being ''the 501st Hollywood film since 1928 associating Italian culture with criminality and violence.'' 

Affleck plays a gangster in the movie, also starring his fiancee Jennifer Lopez. 

''Like all Chicagoans, we welcome Affleck to our great city,'' says IIA's Midwest spokesman Bill Dal Cerro, but he's upset that Hollywood has cast ''a handsome actor like Affleck'' who ''simply romanticizes the whole mafia myth.''

Is Miss 'American Pie' overcooked? 
http://www.suntimes.com/output/zwecker/cst-ftr-zp28.html