:05:00
our family pretended to be Jewish.
:05:03
Little about my life has been
kosher ever since
:05:06
How's it going, brother?
:05:08
It's not.
:05:09
That's Vitaly, my younger brother.
:05:11
He was as lost as me.
:05:12
He didn't know it yet.
:05:14
Yuri,
:05:15
you're late.
:05:20
My father took his assumed
identity to heart.
:05:23
He was more Jewish than most Jews.
:05:25
Which drove my Catholic mother crazy.
:05:27
How many times?
:05:28
I can't eat shellfish.
:05:31
It's treyf.
:05:32
You're not Jewish.
:05:33
I like it.
:05:35
I like the hat.
:05:37
To remind us there is something...
:05:39
above us.
:05:41
I like that.
:05:45
I'm going to temple.
:05:46
You're not going to temple.
:05:47
You go to temple more than the rabbi.
:05:49
Get off my back, woman.
:05:51
God, will you ever wise up?
:05:53
Yuri, don't forget to check
:05:56
the specials at the Palace.
:05:59
Growing up in Little Odessa,
:06:00
murder was everyday part of life.
:06:03
Russian mobsters had also
migrated
:06:05
from the Soviet Union
:06:06
and when they came to America,
:06:08
their baggage came with them.
:06:11
There was always some gangster
:06:12
getting whacked in my
neighborhood,
:06:14
but I'd never seen it with my own eyes.
:06:16
I had this knack of showing up
five minutes before something went down,
:06:19
or five minutes after.
:06:21
Not that day.
:06:46
It hit me.
:06:47
It couldn't have hit me harder
:06:48
if I was the one who'd been shot.
:06:51
You go into the restaurant business...
:06:52
because people are always going
to have to eat.
:06:55
That was the day I realized my destiny...
:06:57
...lay in fulfilling another basic
human need.