BOSTONBOSTON — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died. The ...

In 1969, a TV commercial for spaghetti started airing in the eastern United States. It began like this. That is Mary Fiumara leaning out of a window in Boston's Little Italy, calling to her TV son ...

Mary Fiumara, best known as the mother who called for her son to come home for dinner in a classic Prince pasta television commercial of the 1960s, has died at age 88.Her son confirmed Wednesday that ...

Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day. That tag line to the iconic TV commercial that featured an Italian-American boy named Anthony Martignetti running through the streets of Boston’s North End after ...

FILE - This Oct. 15, 1999, file photo shows Anthony Martignetti in Boston. Martignetti, who gained fame as the little boy running home to his mother in the 1969 "Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day" ...

That is Mary Fiumara leaning out of a window in Boston's Little Italy, calling to her TV son Anthony. Jamie Bologna from WBUR reports that 50 years later, the ad still resonates. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

BOSTON — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died. The death ...