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...Janet Reno, underscoring the extensive government efforts to stem the tide of the mob, added that "In the last three years, 42 top figures in the La Cosa Nostra, including seven bosses or underbosses have been convicted by federal prosecutors." The indictment did not mention the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters Union president, believed to have been murdered by the mob. The FBI stated that the Hoffa case remains "an ongoing investigation...
...Angeles County deputy sheriff who now works for Howard Hughes; Pete's duties include overseeing the staffing of Hush-Hush, a scandal rag Hughes has bought for titillation and political smears, plus procuring drugs for and keeping process servers away from his billionaire boss. One day Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who is being hounded by the Senate's McClellan committee and chief counsel Robert Kennedy, calls to offer Pete $10,000 to kill a man in Miami...
Ellroy sends these three rogue enforcers off on a bizarre fictionalized trek through five years of U.S. history: the pursuit of Hoffa, the Mob's unhappiness over the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the loss of the Havana casino revenues, the 1960 presidential campaign, the long debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Pete, Kemper and Ward play hair-raising roles in all of this, and much more besides...
Yuletide at the movies is often grim; Sophie's Choice, Scarface, Ironweed, Hoffa and most of Oliver Stone's psychodramas were December releases. The reason is coincidence: Christmas Day also marks the start of the last eligible week for the year's Oscar nominees to be released, and that's the cue for superserioso films. So audiences in search of vigorously vacant entertainment this holiday season will find Mrs. Doubtfire and not much else. The rest is state torture, mortal prejudice, mass death. Instead of tidings of joy, Hollywood offers the writhings...
...bubbleheadedness, Marilyn & Bobby is slickly mounted. Melody Anderson and James F. Kelly (who played R.F.K. in three previous TV movies) do passable impersonations, and director Bradford May keeps the close-ups tight and the action fast; the re-created Senate-hearing clashes between Kennedy and Hoffa are more convincing than anything Danny DeVito managed in Hoffa. If Marilyn & Bobby were not about two historical figures whose actual lives -- as opposed to the fantasies people continue to build around them -- still matter to us, Marilyn & Bobby could possibly be dismissed as harmless...