Word: gangsterisms
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DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, swaggering celebrity gangster known as the Dapper Don, the ruthless yet always impeccably groomed boss of the Gambino crime family; of throat cancer; in the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had been serving a life sentence on murder and racketeering charges. The former juvenile delinquent from the South Bronx relished the spotlight, favoring $2,000 suits and tony restaurants, smirking throughout his four trials and winning populist-hero status in the tabloids. Although he had always claimed to be a $100,000- a-year plumbing salesman from Ozone Park, N.Y., Gotti was convicted...
...second biggest in the city after the Japanese. Its members staged operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...
...Swedish designer Lars Nilsson in 2001. DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, Mafia don and godfather of one of the most powerful crime families in America, of throat cancer; in a prison in Springfield, Missouri. Gotti, who had a proclivity for money and women, was a smooth-talking, scrupulously clad gangster christened the "Dapper Don" for his fashion sense. He took over the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti...
...Crimson. He lives a charmed life—dates another sportswriter (Tyra Banks, in her best role since Coyote Ugly) and occasionally works on his thesis. But he finds himself on the wrong side of the law when a Harvard athlete’s father and known gangster (The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini) threatens to kill him unless his son (James Franco, Spider-Man) is named The Crimson’s Athlete of the Week every week. Martin finds this tough to pull off, especially since the player in question—a punter on the football team?...
...Chotta Shakeel had not become the effective boss of the most feared criminal syndicate in South Asia, what would he have grown up to be? What is the secret ambition that lurks within the gangster's breast, the man wanted in India on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy? "You know how in school people write on the topic: 'What do you want to be?' I had a vision of becoming a military officer, and I wrote a composition on it. I wanted to die for my country...