Word: gangsterisms
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...Maybe not a version as explicit, but think about it - a lot of gangster rap music videos are minstrel shows in themselves...
DIED. REGGIE KRAY, 66, British gangster who in the 1950s and '60s ruled east London with his identical twin Ronnie as modern-day Robin Hoods, giving money to the poor and hobnobbing with West End socialites; a month after he was released from prison, where he spent 32 years for murder; of bladder cancer; in Norwich, England...
...friends were drawn to the action and quickly began to see the moneymaking possibilities. Using a supplier in Las Vegas, they began distributing low-grade ecstasy pills to clubs or wherever else the party drug was wanted. "Papa didn't need Sammy to teach him to be a gangster. He came by it honestly," explained a source familiar with the group. By all accounts, the ecstasy ring was led by Papa, a premed student on the dean's list at Arizona State University, who used former high school friends to distribute the drug. Soon he began to emulate Gravano...
...valentine that focuses on how much action Williams got from his screen sister, Maureen ("Marcia") McCormick. But at heart it's really about how darn much you love the Bradys and, by extension, TV. In one scene the Brady boys explore the Paramount lot, racing a cart through a gangster shootout and playing with phasers on the set of Star Trek. It's a big, slobbery kiss to TV past, and an ironic one coming from the network that vaporized the original Trek...
...beginning of November, a white truck pulled up to the Taiwanese gangster's house. Chen and 24 others were pushed into a tight crawl space under a false floor in the back of the truck. The truck was loaded with grapefruit and driven north into Mexico. "It took 40 hours; we had no water, very little air, lying down all the time. For sure if it had lasted even another hour or two, I would have suffocated," says Chen. "By then I was more scared of dying than of being caught and sent back." Lying there, all he could think...