Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became an Al Pacino movie. His next book, The Prosecutor, was an example of what Mills does as well as anyone writing now: hard, dogged, angry reporting about the morally hopeless entanglements of big-city justice. The prosecutor of the title was an overworked D.A. trying to get a Mafia conviction and discovering every sinew of the law flexed against...
...Godfather. It doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall. Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...
...Look at Organized Crime, he fearlessly exposes the blood code of the Mafia ("Death is one of the worst things that can happen to a Cosa Nostra member, and many prefer simply to pay a fine"). In this, and in most of his other recent pieces, Allen displays a debt to the creator of the Blind Explanation, Robert Benchley ("There is no such place as Budapest"). "Benchley has become a new idol for me," Allen says today. "Perhaps because everybody else also imitates Perelman's complicated style, I've tried to get simpler, like Benchley, and to write...
...just an exaggerated version of the neurotic, afraid to walk under a ladder. He is the new man, free from either anxiety or remorse, cold, bored, self-isolated, adventurous, seductive when he wants to be. Or as Harrington lists some types: "Drunkards and forgers, addicts, flower children . . . Mafia loan shark battering his victim, charming actor, murderer, nomadic guitarist, hustling politician, the saint who lies down in front of tractors, icily dominating Nobel Prize winner stealing credit from laboratory assistants . . . all, all doing their thing...
...Godfather. It doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall, Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...