“A Lou Costello statue is just the thing we need there,” Cannella said. The statue — featured in some scenes in “The Sopranos” — remains in place at the park.

Lou Costello, the roly-poly comic whose heart was as big as his girth, died yesterday afternoon of a heart attack in Doctors Hospital, Beverly Hills, three days before his 53rd birthday.

“Sometimes they would fall over in the store, and I would call the ambulance for them.” Today, Lou Costello Memorial Park is a safer place for children to play after a $1.3 million renovation that was ...