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Based on the book Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, as well as on FBI surveillance-tape transcripts and press accounts, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "You got a worldwide crime syndicate now," the imprisoned don, played by Armand Assante, bemoans at the end of the film. "There...
...John Gotti was anything, we learn, he was a man consumed by feelings. The film tracks Gotti's ascent from an impetuous Gambino soldier in the early '70s--the kind of guy who would quickly eliminate a colleague who performed poorly on a hit--to a media-worshipped don who for years remained invincible to prosecution. Assante's glamour works to his advantage as he captures Gotti's magnetic blend of arrogance and affability and thick-necked earnestness. Gotti ruled by gut and fist, and he had little tolerance for the mahogany-paneled sedateness of dons like Carlo Gambino...
...movie 'Gotti,' debuting on the cable network August 17 (9 p.m. EDT). In fact, he says it more often -->