Brooklyn-born doctor’s brush with Hollywood enables lifetime dream
FROM BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM
Childhood Fascination with Sinatra, Italian Heritage, Bring Movie Role
When you go to a physician of any kind, the last thing you expect is to find out that your doctor’s sidelines are acting, playwriting and screenwriting. But one prominent, Brooklyn-born Los Angeles cardiologist — Dr. Rico Simonini, who is also a chief medical advisor for CORE, which provides free COVID-19 testing has written and stars in a film about Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.