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...Massino, the restaurant's operator, is an important part of the family. The Family. The Mafia; the Mob; La Cosa Nostra. The FBI says--and his defense lawyer does not contest--that Massino is head of the Bonanno clan, one of the Five Families of crime incorporated by Lucky Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already...
...Massino trial is the latest--and, the feds hope, final--chapter in a century-old soap opera that began in the early '30s with Luciano's anointing of Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno, then just 26, to rein in one of New York's warring crime gangs and sit on the newly formed Mafia Commission (Bonanno died in 2002 at 97). Bonanno's son Bill, 72, admits he ran the family for a brief, chaotic period in the '60s (true) and claims that he and his father were Mario Puzo's inspiration for Michael and Vito Corleone (debatable). He subscribes...
...RETIRED. LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, 68, larger-than-life star tenor; from opera; in New York. Pavarotti has canceled shows in recent years because of poor health and an unreliable voice, but he says he will participate in farewell concerts until he turns 70. Asked why he was leaving the stage, Pavarotti cited his hefty weight (130 kilograms) and a bad back. "I think it is time," he said...
...Griffith for the girls of Calcutta The Working Girl star has raised millions of dollars for female orphans in India's teeming city, and cut a benefit all-star CD in 2002, Voices of Hope, with Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan, Sting, Alanis Morissette, Ricky Martin, Antonio Banderas, Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo...
...DIED. LUCIANO BERIO, 77, experimental Italian composer; in Rome. Utilizing everything from electronic sounds to the spoken word, he created an innovative body of work that often divided critics. His 1968 Sinfonia, which he conducted for the New York Philharmonic, featured passages from Beckett and Joyce, musical quotations from Mahler and Stravinsky, student graffiti and the Swingle Singers to create what TIME praised as a "new kind of dramaturgy...