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Determined to discover the family's elusive charm, I reached for the nearest concilliari: the On-line Mafia Guide. You could create a small (albeit criminally insane) nation from the number of mafia fans on the web. From "John Gotti's Homepage" to "Gangster Mansion," the devout are eager to share the legacy of "La Cosa Nostra," even with a confessed Irish girl from upstate...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: The Godfather Returns | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...holes, starts with a couple, Fred (Bill Pullman) and Renee (Patricia Arquette), troubled about intrusions into their home and their private lives. Renee vanishes, and the film changes lanes. It follows Pete (Balthazar Getty), a grease monkey who dumps his girlfriend (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and takes up with a gangster (Robert Loggia) and his moll. Damned if this new femme fatale doesn't look exactly like Renee, but with platinum blond hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MILD AT HEART | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...January 9, Girl X was found raped, beaten and poisoned in the seventh-floor stairwell. She was unconscious and foaming at the mouth, her panties shoved down to her knees. Her T shirt had been used to strangle her, and gangster-style graffiti was scrawled on her abdomen in black ink. While the country focused on the case of another brutalized child--this one a privileged little beauty queen in Colorado--public outrage over the comatose Girl X was at first virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELATED OUTRAGE FOR GIRL X | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...Bursac. But, she told her official biographer, "I realized at one point that my Marija will never be Marija Bursac." Marija went on to study in the school of tourism. Today she runs a radio station owned by her mother's communist organization and dates a taxi driver turned gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLOBO, MIRA AND THEIR WILD BROOD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Despite some impressive addresses--the Sears Tower, the Wrigley Building--the heart of District 7 is the tough ghetto west of the Loop. That could explain why Davis won the primary despite a controversial endorsement from a local gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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