• OSCAR PHITKIN (A Vendor’s Tale)

    https://vimeo.com/211111314?fl=ip&fe=ec&share=copy This Indy film was inspired by my father’s original t.v. script he wrote for Twilight Zone titled, ‘The Strange Fate of Oscar Phitkin.’ That teleplay was never sold or produced. But the story evolved over time and became for me a tale about a second-generation hot dog vendor in Hell’ Kitchen where the entire…

  • TO YOU DAD, THE ‘DIORAMA MAN’

    https://www.facebook.com/100015992407813/videos/612948595914882 (the above LINK to a short docky about my father Louis ‘Scott’ Scotellaro – R.I.P. September 11th, 2025, Vermont. He transcended at 9:19 pm in hospice surrounded by beloveds. I inhaled my father’s last breath on this Earth; up close and hauntingly divine. The ‘brutal sacred’ as I call it now. There are tributes…

  • SNAPPER

    By Christopher Laro https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=snapper++by+cheistopher+laro The above LINK will take you to all four parts of the highly controversial short film SNAPPER, about the death of a pedophile at the hands of enraged detectives investigating a child’s disappearance.

  • ‘OSCAR PHITKIN’

    (A Vendor’s Tale) written, directed and starring Christopher Scotellaro All of these LINKS are excerpts to the full-length Indy feature only viewable on VIMEO. YouTube won’t upload the entire film legally due to the soundtrack copyright issues. The following clips offer a glimpse into an iconic Indy film that won the NY International Film/Video festival…

  • Rebel Raven Covers!

    To all writers wishing to fly! (Strange Tales from the Kitchen) https://www.amazon.com/s?k=s.w.+laro&i=stripbooks&crid=1NZLSPK5I0BF8&sprefix=s.w.+laro%2Cstripbooks%2C147&ref=nb_sb_noss …and they just keep comin’ folks! CHECK OUT ALL THE TITLES on Amazon Books now!

  • New Books Flyin’ at RebelRavenFiction!

    (Find ALL of S.W. Laro’s works on Amazon Books) These are a few of the potent titles offered on Amazon written by the Hell’s Kitchen writer Christopher Scotellaro (a.k.a. S.W. Laro): “A book a day with a crow keeps the Devil away ya know.” https://www.amazon.com/s?k=s.w.+laro&crid=3PE4DPLWLNAGU&sprefix=%2Caps%2C91&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent I. ‘THE BLARNEY BOYS’ (A Hell’s Kitchen Tale) II. ‘BAUSCH…

  • REBELRAVENBOOKS!

    Where Rebel Readers come to fly! <a href=”http://<iframe src=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMatowakan1%2Fvideos%2F990776318331588%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0&#8243; width= The above LINK displays the only known animated logo for the original ‘RebelRavenFiction’ created by author S.W. Laro/Christopher Scotellaro. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=s.w.+laro+%27confessions+of+a+gas+station+attendant+man%27&i=stripbooks&crid=1005RUK1NCE7B&sprefix=s.w.+laro+%27confessions+of+a+gas+station+attendant+man%27%2Cstripbooks%2C94&ref=nb_sb_noss This pivotal work by S.W. Laro (‘CONFESSIONS OF A GAS STATION ATTENDANT MAN’) first written in Hell’s Kitchen, N.Y. in the 1980s began with a single…

  • WELCOME TO ‘OSCAR PHITKIN’

    VIMEO LINK to the award-winning Indy film – OSCAR PHITKIN (A Vendor’s Tale) https://vimeo.com/211111314?&login=true#= “…it was the hottest place in the city, Hell’s Kitchen, and a lonely hot dog vendor pushed his wares up and down the Ave. to his spot at the Lincoln Tunnel light…” This section of the blog is dedicated solely to…

  • ‘HERDUM PROFANUM’

    stage play/screenplay Back in the days when The Blarney Stone stood sentinel-like and ‘wanting’ in Hell’s Kitchen, N.Y., (W. 48th and Ninth Ave.) my soul became enthralled with the lives of several barflies I came to know as friends. Or, noble stool dogs and dirty sods who burned their lives o’way on regret n’ shame…