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...bosses, he hews to the law of omerta (silence) established by the original Mafia in Italy and honored by the Bonanno clan, which has roots in the Castellammare del Golfo, a town in western Sicily. The Bonannos are one of only two U.S. Mob families (the other is New Jersey's DeCavalcantes) that still import highly disciplined, Mediterranean-grown recruits...
...CENTER OF A FAMOUS OBSCENITY CASE OVER HIS comedy routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." At age 66, George Carlin is still provoking audiences with his stand-up material, watching a new battle over broadcast indecency unfold and co-starring in a movie, Jersey Girl. He talked, seriously, with TIME's Richard Zoglin...
...PLAY BEN AFFLECK'S FATHER IN JERSEY GIRL. IS THIS THE START OF A NEW MOVIE CAREER? Well, I'm trying to re-energize my old dream of becoming an actor. I'm trying to have people who make movies see me as more than a cartoonish, one-dimensional comedian who shows up for a cameo. [Writer-director] Kevin Smith saw me as something a little different in [his film] Dogma, and now he's rewarded me with this part that he wrote...
...Affleck flashes his forgive-me smile and says, "I'm not really a whoremonger." This plangent one-liner is from his new movie, Jersey Girl, but the gaga-for-gossip public would not have been surprised if it had come from Affleck's recent chats with Jay Leno and Larry King or from a Saturday Night Live skit the other week when he was the guest host. And no, Jennifer Lopez didn't pop in, the way Affleck's ex-ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow did the last time he was the host...
...Goalkeepers are a different breed: they are drawn to, then shaped by, the extreme pressures of the position, and often respond with tricked-out hairstyles, dazzling jerseys and nicknames like El Loco. The job is reactive by definition, highlighted only in moments of ultimate significance. It's no wonder that, even after saves, they are often in a bug-eyed rage. Howard is the exception, reserved to the point of invisibility. With his jersey an inoffensive gray and his hair cut short (but not to the point of look-at-me baldness), Howard flashes no jewelry and no temper...