In the summer of 1969, a woman leaned out of a tenement window in Boston’s Italian North End and called, “Anthony! Anthony!” A 12-year-old boy who had immigrated from Italy three years earlier raced through the busy streets and burst into his apartment, where his loving family was setting dinner on the table. “Most days, Anthony takes his time going home,” the narrator says. But not today, because “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day.”
The boy was Anthony Martignetti, a real North End kid, and the woman calling him was a neighbor, Mary Fiumara. Neither was a professional actor. Martignetti was discovered when three men asking for directions to Commercial Street turned out to be scouting the neighborhood for a Prince ad. Part of the commercial’s charm was that authenticity.
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