BARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL GRAD PRODUCES NEW AL CAPONE FAMILY TV SERIES

Barrington native Curtis Leopardo’s new reality TV show — featuring all of the cheesy melodrama of a family somewhere between the Kardashians and the Sopranos — will premiere at 9 p.m. Jan. 28 on the Reelz channel.

“The Capones,” which follows Al Capone’s descendants as they run a pizza restaurant in Lombard. Leopardo, who previously produced two reality shows and worked on several feature films, said his idea for “The Capones” came to him in Los Angeles, although he had long known Dominic Capone, a relative of the notorious Chicago mobster who died in 1947. Dominic Capone immediately shared Leopardo’s enthusiasm for the project.

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