Mr. Toback, who took over as head of the company about a year ago, said he "grimaced" when he first saw a new Bally commercial that shows a string of delivery people bringing pizza, chicken and other fast food to the same house.
Patsy's, (212( 534-0783, in East Harlem, one of the earliest and still one of the best, produces reliably crisp crusts with excellent mozzarella and toppings. The newly expanded Lombardi's, (212) 941-7994, in Little Italy, owned by the family often credited with bringing pizza to New York, makes an untraditional but excellent clam pie.
Delivery carts on sidewalks will hum along, bringing pizza boxes to our front doors.
Martirosyan also revealed that his delivery wasn't a pre-planned stunt and he was just as surprised as the audience to discover he'd be bringing pizza to the likes of Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and one of his favorite actresses, Julia Roberts.
One evening a neighbor brought pizzas, saying, "You look hungry".
"The police come in and bring pizzas on Fridays," he said.
A women's soccer team recently brought pizzas on a flight, "and we could barely find a place to stack the empty boxes," she said.
Sometimes, he brought pizza.
Q. Can you bring pizza inside?
He brought pizza to this country, my grandfather did".
