Word: mafiosi
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Ciello-Leuci is a man who feels fully alive only when he is at high risk-when, say, wired for sound he collects evidence from Mafiosi about cops they have suborned. But this movie is a moral, not a criminal, investigation. The people he works for have cases to break, headlines to make, careers at stake. They need to squeeze every drop of usefulness out of him; he needs to defend his honor by refusing to rat on his friends. By the end he has gently been led to the most terrible betrayals of self, friends and family who must...
...Mafiosi call off a summit...
...Bonanno may indeed be the proudest of America's Mafiosi: Sicilian-born, son of a don, bootlegger at 21, gunrunner for Al Capone at 24, a New York don himself at 26 and a ruthless aspirant to the title of capo di tutti capi, boss of all bosses. So at age 74, supposedly sunning out his years in Tucson, "Joe Bananas" began writing the story of his life. His tentative title: "The Prince of the Honored Mafia...
...that defines the Kennedys as Kennedys--it's a two-edged sword. People are either won over passionately, see Teddy as the last liberal, the only strong leader left, the covert hope of the Democratic Socialists, or they see Teddy as part of a massive, global conspiracy of Mafiosi, British bankers, Zionists, Communists, neo-Platonists, and Zoroastrians. Or they see him as Evil Incarnate...
...threats to Galante grew out of incessant rivalry among the five Mafia clans based in New York City, where the most powerful don is usually looked on by Mafiosi elsewhere in the U.S. as the capo with the most respect...