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The escarole pizza at Sam’s has its devotees, and the restaurant offers a raft of pastas and dishes that center on clams and chops and chicken, which is referred to on the enormous laminated menu as “fowl.” There’s also Chianti, as well as Cokes that come in plastic bottles.

Celebrities like Jay-Z and Beyoncé regularly dine at Lucali, which has become so famous for both its calzones and its impossible-to-snag reservations that it was recently name-dropped on a track by the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Michael Hartel, a location manager who has been in the business for 25 years, doesn’t remember how Sam’s first got on his radar, but he’s shot there twice for the network procedural “FBI” — one scene in which a mobster meets with some undercover agents, and another in which criminals hold a backroom card game.

A week after the film crew for “The Bride!” had cleared out and restored the plastic flowers and thank-you notes from location scouts, those photogenic red vinyl booths at Sam’s were full, mostly, it seemed, with tourists and young New York transplants.

That means there may no longer be much need for a place that is perfectly stuck in time; when you can edit out air-conditioners, security cameras, ice machines and other trappings of modern life in postproduction, you can shoot pretty much anywhere.

Everyone in Sam’s — the editors at the monitors, the character actors who had responded to a casting call for God knows what description, even Ms. Gyllenhaal herself — would have to wait patiently as the real boss of the place took a Manhattan Special from the fridge under his bar.

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