and entitled The hungry i Reunion. The film is intercut with reminiscences by Bill Cosby, Maya Angelou (who started at Banducci's club performing Caribbean songs and patter while imitating a Caribbean accent) and Phyllis Diller. In 1988, after he lost Enrico's to one of its several closures over the years, he became a hot dog vendor also serving homecooked Italian food in Richmond, Virginia at the "hungry i hot dog stand" on land located in Shockoe Slip, the city's most upscale restaurant district, which he'd purchased for his son years earlier, much to the strenuous chagrin of the surrounding restaurateurs, who objected in vain to the presence of a small wooden one-man hot dog stand in a parking lot with a sign proclaiming "hungry i hot dog stand" amidst their deluxe multi-floored dining establishments; he moved back to San Francisco in the late 1990s. Banducci died in his sleep in South San Francisco, California at the age of 85. Banducci is portrayed by Jon Polito in a large supporting role in the 2014 film Big Eyes directed by Tim Burton and starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, featuring Banducci in a fist-fighting scene, among other sequences. References External links Enrico Banducci, Bar School, and a Guy From Fresno, via CoastNews.com Farewell Favorites: Enrico Banducci and the hungry i: Five Pages Dorothy Currin at Enrico Banducci's hungry i (scroll down) Barbra Streisand: Early Performances - Live at the hungry i Interview about the 2007 hungry i exhibit, currently running at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum San Francisco Chronicle - Podcast Interview with Enrico Banducci The Legendary hungry i 1922 births Culture of San Francisco 2007 deaths Beat Generation people History of San Francisco North Beach, San Francisco Businesspeople from San Francisco 20th-century American businesspeople People from South San Francisco, California People from Bakersfield, California American people of Italian descent