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...nothing new. During the 1920s, America’s mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American Dream. As historian David Ruth has written: “The central theme of the Capone narrative was an individual’s escape from obscurity to wealth, power...
...GOSSIP GUY MAILBAG: Horatio R. Sherman ’02, known to Gossip Guy readers as the über-WASP who was accused of fornicating with an underage, homeless crack fiend, writes to offer his side of the story. “I did not TOUCH that 14-year-old at the Owl,” he says. “She did not have a place to stay. She slept in our common room. Ask either of my roommates!” Further investigation revealed that Sherman in fact lives in a Pforzheimer single. He could...
...close encounter of the dirty, underage kind when über-WASP Horatio R. Sherman ’02 went home with an unidentified and unclean girl he met at the Owl last week. Witness Brian M. Bringiz ’03 explains: “So this girl rolls up and she’s like clearly cracked-out. She’s like 4’ 10”, looked about 14, maybe 11. I think she was probably homeless. She’s trying to get with all the fellas. So I, you know, fled. Later...
...cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...
...making it interesting to see what would happen next. His coup de grace was definitely an altered version of the scene where Claudius is praying and confessing his sins and Hamlet is trying to decide whether to kill him then or wait. In Funke’s adaptation, both Horatio and Claudius are praying, confessing to similar sins. Though the text is very close to Shakespeare’s, Horatio and Claudius alternate lines and occasionally speak at the same time. The effect is both interesting and powerful...