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MILESTONES: Al-Qaeda suspect arrested; former Mob boss convicted; Pop Rocks inventor dies; Crick remembered by Watson...
CONVICTED. JOSEPH (Big Joey) MASSINO, 61, the once powerful Bonanno Mob boss; of racketeering, arson, extortion and money laundering; in New York City. The former 400-pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...
...bookstores are open. Children come to Sunday school dressed in their soccer uniforms; some churches have started their own leagues just to control the schedule. Politicians recite their liturgies in TV studios. Post offices may still be closed, but once you miss that first Sunday e-mail from the boss, it becomes forever harder not to log on and check in. Even the casinos are open...
...there's another kind of horror, a subtler, more seductive and lingering kind. "Whether it's Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby or Kubrick's The Shining," says former Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic, "some of the best horror movies had a certain elegance to them." These films tell you that what you don't know or notice can hurt you. They are to the gore fests as romantic dramas are to porn. They are about mood, atmosphere, the notion that death is everywhere and inevitable...
...Colombia, job opportunities are, shall we say, limited, even for a young woman as heartbreakingly beautiful as Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno). When we meet her, she is stripping the thorns off roses for a wholesale florist--hating the boss, the degrading working conditions, the paltry...