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...ARRESTED. BENEDETTO SPERA, 60, member of the notorious Cosa Nostra clan and reputed right-hand man of Italy's most wanted Mafia fugitive, Bernardo Provenzano, for his alleged role in several high-profile murders; in Sicily. On the run for nine years, Spera had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the car-bomb murders of two prominent anti-Mafia judges in 1992; he was also implicated in several other murders. His arrest might have struck film-lovers as familiar: Spera was apprehended in a sting operation in the countryside near Corleone, the Italian setting of several scenes...
...first-years mixing liquor with the cosa nostra. we've got a trip to finagle-a-whatever that flies in the ugly face of atkins wisdom. we get serious with alan keyes as he shows us the meaning of god and country in the mosh pit. and we've got the inside flavor on Let's Go, which is not just a figure of speech but also a travel outfit run by your classmates...
Emmy voters are not exactly like mafiosi--the Cosa Nostra places greater emphasis on giving people what they've got coming to them--but they too honored the series last year with 16 nominations, including a stunning four of the five slots for drama writing (Chase and James Manos Jr. won for the episode in which Tony takes time out from a college tour with his daughter to kill a Mob informer). The show won only four statuettes, but its dominance of the writing category was its most appropriate tribute. For all its crisp direction, impeccable casting and at least...
...comic moves away from those influences as it progresses; in fact, the "Scud" universe is now large enough to have generated two spin-offs. Almost as violent and twice as profane as "Scud" is "La Cosa Nostroid." Illustrated by one Edvis (whose goofy, facile style is as reminiscent of Phil Foglio as it is of Schrab), the book somehow manages to make immature, violent, half-cyborg mafiosi extraordinarily lovable. And Scud's silent sidekick Drywall--a little creature whose zippered skin leads into a infinitely large inner warehouse where he can store anything he needs--has for some reason become...
Just in case we haven't sussed out the metaphor from dozens of other movies and books devoted to romanticizing Cosa Nostra, Mario Puzo's The Last Don, a six-hour mini-series (beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking...