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...Cotton Club" really was a Harlem nightclub that popped up during the prohibition era. This infamous speakeasy partied socialites, mobsters and movie stars; gang wars were Hemingway's "lost generation" found themselves in the tunes of performers like Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson...
...entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York's gang wars...
There is no sense of continuity in the "Cotton Club"; we never know how one gang accumulates or loses it's power. Coppola introduces the Irish Jewish and Italian rackets, but the only way one can tell the mob has changed hands is by the size of gangsters noses...
...extraordinarily talented forward on the state champion basketball team and ranked academically near the top of his class. As he walked near Simeon one afternoon with his girlfriend, he made the fatal mistake of brushing past a boy who is said to be hooked up with a gang. "He pushed me," the angry young man told his pal. "Pop him." The friend drew his revolver and shot the 6-ft. 8-in. star twice in the chest. That weekend in the Simeon gym, thousands of people filed past Benjy Wilson's open casket...
Earlier this fall Mayor Washington proposed laying off 500 of the city's 12,000-member police force as a budget-cutting measure. With Wilson's murder and the continued gang violence, however, the mayor's opponents turned the planned cuts into a hot political issue. They called instead for 500 additional police. Last week Washington backed down on the layoffs and announced a planned crackdown on five notorious gang fiefs...