Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Local 272 of the Teamsters in New York City was a classic case of how the Mob infiltrated the Brotherhood. This local controls the labor at roughly 85% of the city's 900 parking facilities and comprises 4,600 workers, most of them black or Hispanic. After a 20-year reign as the group's president, Cirino (Speed) Salerno was ousted last September by the Teamsters' court-appointed administrator. Salerno, 77, who has been convicted of extortion in the past, is not a "made" Mafia member. But he allegedly diverted union money to his brother Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno...
...yakuza is Japan's version of the Mafia, a shadowy mob brotherhood that often operates behind a shield of what appears to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush Jr., 68, the President's elder brother...
...squirm, but the town recognizes his value. "Spike put this trend in vogue," says Mark Canton, executive vice president at Warner Bros. "His talent opened the door for others." Van Peebles testifies, "If it weren't for Spike, I wouldn't be here." Lee is happy to have the brotherhood's company: "There are some people out there who were just meant to make films. That's the sense...
...country's borders. He gassed the rebellious Kurds in 1988 and is now continuing the genocide. Jordan's King Hussein took care of a Palestinian revolt in his country in 1970 by slaughtering thousands of Palestinians in a few weeks. Syria's Hafez al-Assad literally levelled the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled city of Hama, killing over 20,000 of his own citizens when fundamentalists challenged his dictatorship...
There's a catch, though. Hollywood, like the characters it puts on the screen, wants to be loved at the final fade-out. So Bonfire ends in a brotherhood-of-man speech instead of a race riot. The evil nurse in Misery doesn't chop her captive's foot off with an ax; she breaks it with a mallet. The heroine in Sleeping with the Enemy doesn't bravely confront her husband on her own terms; she cringes like a silent-film maiden tied to the railroad tracks. Plus ca change. Movies, even if they have literary beginnings, still need...