The Reality of the Melting Pot Tempers explode, emotions take charge, and a Italian-run pizzeria in a black Brooklyn neighborhood becomes the center of a violent conflict on a hot summer day in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. The film is a day-in-the-life of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community and it is one of the hottest days of the summer. Much of the action takes place around or inside the Sal’s Famous Pizzeria, owned and operated by Sal (Danny Aiello) and his sons Vito (Richard Edson) and Pino (John Turturro). The restaurant has been in the neighborhood for years and