Life Ain’t Nothing but Phil Rizzuto and Money

This video footage of Phil Rizzuto maniacally sawing a live woman in half represents only one of roughly 800 video spots the late Yankee shortstop and broadcaster did for consumer financiers The Money Store in the late 1980s and early ’90s — i.e. at precisely the same time giants of rap N.W.A. very-not-coincidentally released their single “Gangsta Gangsta”.

Next week, we’ll look at Rizzuto’s spokeswork for noted clothier American Apparel.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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Kyle
13 years ago

I’m scared to death of these reported poorly lit American Apparel images of Rizzuto and what he might be wearing in them.