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DIED. ANTHONY (TONY JACK) GIACALONE, 82, alleged Detroit Mafia capo who was set to meet with ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; in Detroit. Giacalone, who was under a 21-count indictment for racketeering at the time of his death, never spilled the beans about what he may have known about Hoffa's disappearance and presumed death, except to remark, "Maybe he took a little trip...
...fall to their tripping-over-each-other titles. In one corner, The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece by Eric Nisenson (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $22.95); across the ring, Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Da Capo; 223 pages...
...asked for their idea of a union leader, most folks might describe a paunchy guy who has the morals of a Mafia capo but with less colorful language and a cheaper suit. Or they'd think of the least representative members of organized labor, professional athletes. Strikes in the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball offer the spectacle of pampered millionaires demanding still more millions of dollars from their clubs and, ultimately, their fans. They have also deprived the American male of his constitutional right to get drunk watching large men collide with one another...
...Chase the most authoritative, if unsettling, rave of his career. Amid friendly, allegedly racketeering banter, the suspects rhapsodized about the HBO Mafia drama's depth and realism, speculating (hoping?) that it was based on them. "Every show you watch, more and more you pick up somebody," enthused one alleged capo. "What characters...
...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...