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...Carmine Galente, 66, nicknamed "Lillo" and "the Cigar." Since getting out of Lewisburg federal penitentiary in 1974, after serving a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking, Galente has controlled the remnants of the Joseph Bonanno family in New York. Says one Mafia source: "Lillo would shoot you in church during high Mass." Galente, it is said, had no respect for Gambino because the latter "never broke an egg in his life." Unverified Mob talk last week went so far as to suggest that Galente ordered his spies within the Gambino family to persuade the capo di tutti capi to take...
Here, for instance, is the American as son-of-Godfather: Bill Bonanno's thought processes, writes Sheed, "reminded me of Yogi Berra reading Gospel comics." Or the American as prototypical, George Meany-like labor leader, with "the gravelly voice, abraded in drafty meeting halls, the face of many weathers, and that style-watchful, patient, sufficiently charming for the political side of things. He tends to be built for sitting up all night, like a beer bottle, and his backside is probably as callused by now as his hands...
...years) sold four proposed TV sketches to Hawaii Five-O, one of which has been used as the basis for an episode. Bank Robber Edward Bunker (doing five years) recently sold the screen rights to his first novel, No Beast So Fierce, to Actor Dustin Hoffman for $80,000. Bonanno had a piece on prison life on the New York Times's Op-Ed page and has sold a story to Tennis magazine. Bank Robber Hank Garrison (now serving a ten-year term) just sold a story to Stag magazine. "It may not be impressive to some people," says...
...enthusiastic about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer Rod Serling and Joseph Wambaugh, Los Angeles literary policeman (who last week quit the force to write full time). During his visit, Wambaugh offered Bonanno a cop's role on his TV show Police Story. Bonanno said thanks, but no, "I haven't been that rehabilitated...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...