Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "Gotti may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer myth of him that they haven't bothered to explore what those ideas might be. Nor do the filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti1s many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules...
...Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "Gotti may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer myth of him that they haven't bothered to explore what those ideas might be. Nor do the filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti1s many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules...
When counsel for the defense strode to the bar, we slowly became aware that we were inhaling hairspray--picture your stereotypical, sleezoid mob lawyer and you only begin to brush the surface. But his ridiculous appearance was nothing compared to his questions. First came: "How many of you watch 'E.R.?'" Several of us raised our hands proudly and several others followed sheepishly. "Um hmm" came his victorious reply as he made notes--he had caught us! After that, I just tuned out, not really wanting to deal with why the lawyer was asking me if I watched a popular medical...
...handful of advisers who have their own agenda," the Americans explained. They also wanted a brief speech that television viewers might actually sit through. "No more than 15 minutes," they advised. And they wanted Yeltsin to enter the hall through a large and boisterous crowd that would mob...
Robert Shapiro, never averse to cameras, has signed on as executive producer for Evil Empire, a movie about the Russian Mafia, to be written by one-man script mill Joe Eszterhas. "I'll need his creativity, street smarts and negotiation skills when I'm dealing with the Russian Mob," says Eszterhas, adding that the two are old friends. "He was one of my divorce attorneys...