Vincent Restauri
- Writer
- Producer
Vincent Restauri is an American screenwriter and attorney. He holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and a law degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has practiced law in the Pittsburgh area since 1977. His current screenplay, "116 MacDougal," tells the true story of "The Gaslight" coffee house in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and early 60s, where many Beat writers and Folk musicians--who later became icons--were inspired by one another and by the artistic purity of the place. Combative, flamboyant, gun-and-knife toting con-man turned patron of the arts, John Mitchell, who owned The Gaslight, battled to protect them from the police, Mafia and City Hall at a time when New York City, organized religions and the entire country confronted their fears over emerging counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, the Red Scare, and the Cuban Missile Crisis--and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declared that Beatniks and eggheads posed the greatest threat to the security of the United States.