Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WILL THE TEAMSTERS EVER GO straight? Not with the attitude problem they've got. America's largest and most corrupt labor union remains in love with its sordid past, which is making it nearly impossible for it to forge an honest future. The attitude is reflected vividly in Hoffa, the new $40 million movie starring Jack Nicholson. The film tends to romanticize the life of the union's most infamous leader, Jimmy Hoffa, portraying him as a folk hero, a "friend of labor" who may have done deals with the Mob but only to help his Teamsters brothers and never...
October 17: Lafayette 31, Harvard 29--Down 31-14 in the fourth quarter, the Crimson could have rolled over and played Jimmy Hoffa...
...hideous penguin boy.' And I got this weird chill." As Penguin, DeVito gamely spewed black bile (food coloring and mouthwash) and ate raw fish (seasoned with lemon). DeVito, auteur of his own dark comedies Throw Momma from the Train and War of the Roses, is now directing Nicholson in Hoffa. He says the only thing he would have done differently if he had directed Batman Returns is "make love to the leading lady...
Those who could afford it used to phone Edward Bennett Williams, who until his death in 1988 was one of the most effective lawyers Washington had ever seen, the attorney of choice for malefactors of great wealth or high profile (among them Senator Joe McCarthy, Teamster chief Jimmy Hoffa, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Mob boss Frank Costello, the model for Mario Puzo's Godfather). Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, tells the Williams story as it should be told, with due attention to the man's boozy, backslapping charm, his genius for the law, and his untiring...
...thing that deeply troubles reformers about Hoffa is his unwillingness to accept the evidence that his father was Mob-tied, an impediment that raises questions about his ability to see the enemy. "I think Jimmy Jr. is the best man for this union," says Daniel Sullivan, a union official and a source on the Mafia for the FBI. "But the evidence on his father is overwhelming. He knew how to say no to the Mob, but he just should have started doing it sooner." Hoffa admits that "my father knew some of these guys ((mobsters)). But I don't accept...