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...Godfather. It doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall. Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...
...Look at Organized Crime, he fearlessly exposes the blood code of the Mafia ("Death is one of the worst things that can happen to a Cosa Nostra member, and many prefer simply to pay a fine"). In this, and in most of his other recent pieces, Allen displays a debt to the creator of the Blind Explanation, Robert Benchley ("There is no such place as Budapest"). "Benchley has become a new idol for me," Allen says today. "Perhaps because everybody else also imitates Perelman's complicated style, I've tried to get simpler, like Benchley, and to write...
...Godfather. It doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall, Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...
...prison for extortion, he allied himself with black prisoners and once organized a protest against white prison barbers who refused to cut blacks' hair. After he got out early last year, Gallo said he wanted to bring blacks into the Syndicate, an idea that infuriated older Mafiosi. La Cosa Nostra, after all, is the most exclusive men's club in the world...
Already the Gambinos are so strong that none of the other 19 Mafia clans across the nation dare to challenge them. If the Gambino family literally buried its opposition in New York, then Carlo Gambino could, if he wished, control the entire national rackets combine of La Cosa Nostra. He might become what the Mafia calls capo di tutti capi -boss of all bosses. The job has been vacant since Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated...