TORONTO -- What's a nice guy like Danny Aiello doing in a character like this? In his fest flick, 2 Days In The Valley, Aiello plays a hitman, Pulp Fiction-style.

"I'm crazy in this film, crazier than I've ever been," insists the actor, between bites of boccochini at the Norstar bash Tuesday. "I was a wimp in Moonstruck, so now I'm playing a bunch of bad guys to make up for it."

In his next film, Brooklyn State Of Mind, the South Bronx native plays "an unredeeming S.O.B," then apologizes profusely for cussing. "I never swear in front of my mother or other women," he says, "And I never used as much as a `hell' at home in my life."

That's why he was really bad at being `bad' in Brooklyn, he says, 'cause in the film he has to utter gutter talk to his own son, actor Rick Aiello. "I couldn't use such language to his eyes, it became too real. I had to turn my face, I couldn't look at him," says Aiello, a dad first.

After a tete-a-tete with the director, Aiello's solution: "I took it out on a glass of wine," he says. "It was easier to say it to the glass than to my boy."


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