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- Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses—"Kids from nowhere going nowhere."
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/351087.A_Guide_to_Recognizing_Your_SaintsA Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel - Goodreads
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In 2003, Montiel published A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a memoir [3] detailing his life growing up in Astoria, Queens in the early 1980s during the rise of the hardcore punk scene. The book describes his time spent touring with his band Gutterboy and his brief modeling career with Versace along with other personal anecdotes.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: Directed by Dito Montiel. With Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz. Coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
- (27K)
- Crime, Drama
- Dito Montiel
- 2006-10-13
Aug 9, 2002 · This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him: Dito's father, Antonio "our insane warrior hero," Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker ...
- (732)
- Paperback
- Dito Montiel
Feb 17, 2007 · In 2003, a short, pungent memoir called A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was published by the Thunder's Mouth Press, a small New York imprint, and in its pages were things never seen...
Sep 29, 2006 · That’s what young Dito Montiel (Shia LaBeouf) hears again and again from his father. Like many sensitive young men in rough circumstances, Dito, growing up fast in Astoria, Queens, in 1986 ...
- Dito Montiel
Jan 22, 2006 · Dito Montiel writes what he knows in his autobiographical and unkempt debut feature, “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” Homing in on the sections in his 2003 memoir about his...
Feb 26, 2007 · Robert Downey Jr stars as writer Dito Montiel who also directs this adaptation of his same-titled memoir. It positively crackles with energy, featuring startlingly raw performances from a...
