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...City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon Stanley Ho, 82, who failed to fully modernize even his flagship Hotel Lisboa. In the run-up to the 1999 handover, rival loan sharks inspired many of the turf wars in the gangster-ridden colony. Violence escalated to the point that in 1997 Macau's Secretary of Security reassured tourists that they were unlikely to get caught in the crossfire because the city had "professional killers who never miss their targets." In an effort to clean up the territory's casino culture...
...kind of less-than-reputable locals he describes in terms like "I know he's not a shoe salesman, but I don't know of any violent crime he committed." Today on Las Vegas--one of the few new series to click with viewers last fall--the former Godfather gangster plays the head of security at a top-flight casino. The show's tone is hardly dark. The Elvis theme song--"A little less conversation/A little more action"--aptly captures its cheerfully vacant spirit ("I don't know what kind of drama awards we're gonna win," Caan says dryly...
...Gangster Player...
...getting close to picturing Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series from British gamemaker Terry Donovan. The most recent installment, 2002's GTA Vice City, is a kind of homage to Miami Vice, in which you play an underworld figure in 1980s Florida. You are what Donovan calls an "aspirational gangster...
...this 1930 gangster pic, the Yasujiro Ozu festival at Harvard Film Archive brings the Japanese version of a very familiar archetype: a criminal with a taste for movies, jazz, flappers and snappy suits. But then love walks in the door for “Ken the Knife,” convincing him to go straight, eventually leading him to a steady job as a window washer. They don’t end up together, though; he continues to stay with a girlfriend who is into dangerous men. She is bored with his new conformity and attempts...