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...prose-Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right now, you need...
Whether it will achieve this exalted end is admittedly open to question. There is evidence to suggest that corporations will not come running to the South Bronx with open arms just because of a tax incentive. But the program is based on that fine principle of capitalism that every man has his price. If people are staying out of an area because of crime, discrimination, or poor services, it should be possible to raise incentives to a level where they will not want to stay...
...WHICH leads back to the Daily News. The News has a market too, and that it its biggest asset--and problem. The people who read the Daily News are, for the most part, the stable, ethnic families who live in New York's outer boroughs--the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For years, this represented a solid constituency, and the News served it well, with pungent, readable prose, catchy headlines and cranky, right-wing editorials. And the public responded; "Da Nooz," as it is popularly known, achieved the largest circulation of any paper in American history, selling 2.3 million...
Masselli did so in the name of a company he created in 1976 called Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp. Masselli became president of Jo-Pel. Joseph L. Galiber, a Bronx Democrat who is still a New York state senator, was vice president. Masselli put $3,600 into forming the company, and Galiber invested $3,800. In the past four years, their firm was paid more than $8 million on its contract work for Donovan's firm...
...infringing on a Bonanno jurisdiction. Salvatore (Sally Blind) Frascone, a Bonanno soldier specializing in vending machines, made the fatal mistake of continuing to protest the pro-Masselli decision. Frascone was openly executed in October 1978 by Mob hit men as he got out of his car in The Bronx...