Word: langella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, don of the Lucchese clan; and Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, head of the Colombo family. Persico, who acted as his own defense attorney, received a separate 39-year sentence last week for an earlier racketeering conviction; his top aide, Colombo Underboss Gennaro (Gerry Lang) Langella, 47, was convicted in the commission case and sentenced to 65 years in the earlier one. A fourth crime family, the Bonannos, was hit by the conviction of one of its captains, Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato, 30. The jury found that Indelicato had been one of the gunmen who had executed...
Colombo. With Persico and Langella both facing prison for long terms, no clear-cut successor can be named. Law-enforcement officials are divided on whether Joseph Brancato, 69, Vincent Aloi, 63, or Aloi's younger brother Benny, 51, will move up. Brancato served mainly as an errand boy for Persico, according to New York investigators, and seems to lack real clout. The Aloi brothers, on the other hand, appear to have the Mob smarts to run the family -- if they want to take the risk of doing...
...Royce, several racehorses, a $500,000 home overlooking Washington's Rock Creek Park and a 2.5% stake in the Washington Capitals ice-hockey team. Among the investors who flocked to his deals were a host of celebrities, including Filmmaker Woody Allen, Comic Bill Murray, Actors Christopher Walken and Frank Langella, TV Personality Dick Cavett and Author Erica Jong...
...Quentin, Frank Langella at first seems too sensuous to be playing the kind of man who sins only so he can suffer. By the second act, however, when Quentin is mud wrestling with Maggie's demons and making them his own, Langella has captured the character's soul; he is stooped, obsessive, spent. As Maggie, Dianne Wiest is an inspired piece of miscasting...
Luminous earlier this year in Serenading Louie and Other Places, Wiest is still no sexpot, no Marilyn; truth to tell, Langella is prettier than she is. More over, she affects a wispy giggle that mimics Monroe and every little girl lost from Susan Alexander Kane to Judy Garland. Yet Wiest has managed to bleach the intelligence out of her face, leaving only a cunning child with the look of a battered seraph. This is no flesh-and-blood performance; it is pure, chilling marrow. Emotional striptease is what such acting is all about. But perhaps not play writing...