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...wonders about the psychology underlying the phenomenon of "Mafia chic" [April 17]. What is it about the gangster Joey Gallo that appeals to people like Actress Joan Hackett and Author Marta Curro? Are they titillated by the company of violent and dangerous men? Would they find such men "absolutely charming" and "fascinating" if they were to witness firsthand a gangland slaying...
...introduced Joey Gallo (and hundreds of others) to authors like Camus and Sartre when I was education supervisor at Attica state prison. Like Joan Hackett and Jerry Orbach I too can believe that "something happened to him" when he "read and studied." For lack of a better term we called it part of the "rehabilitation" program...
...Whether Joey was "playacting" or "life-acting" is a question most of us have to answer for ourselves about ourselves. In these times of crisis, condemnation and soul-searching in penology, I ask whether we have been doing an altogether poor...
...defensive, the Gallos have put out contracts for the deaths of three enemies: 1) Alphonse ("Alley Boy") Persico, the Colombo war chieftain; 2) Nick Bianco, a New England gangster whom the Gallos want killed because he arranged the treaty that ended the Gallo-Profaci war ten years ago while Joey was in jail; and 3) Joe Yacovelli, a Colombo capo. The Gallos believe that Yacovelli had a hand in Joey's murder...
...member of the Mafia family headed by the late Vito Genovese. By decree of the Gambinos, the Gallo contract was "wide open"-meaning that any executioner from any family could kill him and have the backing of the Gambinos. The Gallos think, however, that two Colombo men killed Joey: one of them, Rocco Miraglia, seems to fit the description of the assassin. Besides, Gallo's men recall that a few months ago during an argument on President Street, Joey threw Miraglia out of a second-story window...