Word: gangsterisms
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...primary sources are court records and the people on the right side of the law." Even interviews with the good guys can be delicate. Barrett recalls an organized-crime investigator who suggested dinner at a well-known gangster hangout, explaining, "That's the kind of place where people make a very serious effort not to hear what's being said at the next table. It's safer to be deaf...
...Frank Chin, 48, professional wiretapper gunned down with six bullets to the head in a New York City apartment building Jan. 20. Also a potential state's witness against the Mob, Chin (TIME, Feb. 21) had been hired by DiGilio to screen the gangster's offices for police eavesdropping devices...
...store that went out of business a few months ago. FBI lab tests show that the .22-cal slugs that killed Capone and Chin came from the same weapon -which has not been found. But both men were also linked through their mutual connection with DiGilio. The New Jersey gangster is currently appealing a prison sentence for conspiracy to rifle the files of the FBI's Newark field office -files that some officials think may have tipped off the Mob that Bompensiero and Maniaci were informants...
...ground that it was inadequately documented. Barry Goldwater, who had refused to be interviewed for the series, responded with outrage and hinted at the "biggest ever" libel suit in U.S. history. He also challenged Robert Greene, the Newsday editor who directed the investigative group, to name one gangster living in Arizona. Greene quickly responded with the name of Joe Bonanno, who lives in Tucson, and he said he could produce another...
BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...