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...Carmine Galente, 66, nicknamed "Lillo" and "the Cigar." Since getting out of Lewisburg federal penitentiary in 1974, after serving a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking, Galente has controlled the remnants of the Joseph Bonanno family in New York. Says one Mafia source: "Lillo would shoot you in church during high Mass." Galente, it is said, had no respect for Gambino because the latter "never broke an egg in his life." Unverified Mob talk last week went so far as to suggest that Galente ordered his spies within the Gambino family to persuade the capo di tutti capi to take...
...York family by helping Corallo arrange the murder last month of its chief, Andimo Pappadio. Now, according to a Mafia insider, Galente will stop at nothing to take power: "If everybody don't get in line, there's gonna be a lot of heads rolling. Lillo's gonna wipe up the streets with a few people that didn't bow down to him when he come out of the joint [prison] or didn't bow down to him when he was in the joint, even worse...
GREAT JONES STREET by DON DE LILLO 265 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Bucky Wunderlick, the all-purpose sensibility of post-'60s exhaustion, is a rock star sick of mainlining on fame. In Don de Lillo's latest novel, he leaves his band and retreats to a dismal converted loft to watch the roaches crawl over the unwashed dishes in the sink...
Author De Lillo would probably not be disappointed if Bucky Wunderlick is read as Jesus Christ Superstar in the urban wilderness. Bucky is last seen recovering from a language-erasing drug. It is suggested that he has been purified. But by nudging his hero toward the truly mythic, De Lillo overextends a book that is otherwise distinguished by a cool, clinical touch. As he demonstrated in two previous novels (Americana and the much overpraised End Zone), the author has a knack for chill atmosphere, satiric caricature and witty dialogue. He is also a good literary mechanic who knows...