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...Have three kids b) Die without a cemetery plot c) Be nice to tourists d) Invite Gerard Depardieu over for dinner...
...there was the Bobby who all his life was a boyishly relentless self-improver, a quester. A friend remembered him lugging around a heavy anthology of Western literature "like a football." Kennedy said the only writing he liked in it was the story about the French poet Gerard de Nerval, who walked with a lobster on a leash. Someone asked Nerval why he did that. Nerval replied, "He doesn't bark, and he knows the secrets of the deep...
...hours in the small brown office of Marathon Development--the same name he once used for a front company in New York--a new opportunity presented itself. Among the employees he had hired was an old acquaintance from New York, Michael Papa, a close friend of Gravano's son Gerard. By this time, Gravano was no longer trying to conceal who he was. In fact, he reveled in the notoriety. In cafes and restaurants, he would talk to whoever would listen about the Mafia and the murders, gaining him a small but loyal following of young, rapt local kids...
After a month of intense surveillance, the police moved in on Feb. 24. They arrested Sammy, Debra, his daughter Karen, her fiance David Seabrook, Gerard as well as Papa and 41 others. In raids on their properties, police found ecstasy pills, guns and nearly $100,000 in cash, most of it in the Gravano house. (In Sammy's separate apartment, the only drugs found were pot and Viagra.) Gravano, who has pleaded not guilty, is still in jail, unable to come up with $5 million bail. There is some skepticism about the extent of Gravano's role among federal officials...
Thurman also played the lady of every man's desire in Vatel, director Roland Joffe's English-language costume epic with Gerard Depardieu. On opening night she wore a backless, faultless frock. If stately sensuality had a name here, it was Thurman...