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ROBERT ILER plays Tony Soprano Jr., the doughy son of an enterprising, Machiavellian Mob boss on The Sopranos; he is also a child actor. Not since Drew Barrymore merged child acting with a vodka-filled gene pool has a young'un been so destined for a date with trouble. Iler, 16, joined the fabled ranks of Barrymore, Danny Bonaduce and the cast of Diff'rent Strokes when he and three associates were arrested last week. New York City police called it a case of strong-arm robbery, in which two teen victims were relieved of $40. Iler pleaded not guilty...
...Merrill Lynch, talking like it has forever banished conflict of interest from within its walls, will now bar its army of 850 stock analysts from owning the stocks they analyze. No more can a member of the Lynch mob be accused of touting a company to line his own pockets...
...Mafia lifestyle for six years in deep cover as Donnie Brasco, I can vouch for the authenticity of The Sopranos, the HBO phenomenon created by David Chase. I lived day and night with the Bonnano crime family of New York City, interacting with wiseguys and their families, attending Mob weddings, funerals and family get-togethers. Chase understands their subtleties, from the emphatic hand gestures to their unwritten code of honor...
Chase is an Italian American, and he understands that rich culture with all its ethnic eccentricities, from its love of food to the boisterous ways of communicating. Growing up in northern New Jersey, which had no shortage of wiseguys, gave him an early introduction to the ways of Mob etiquette. But the producer knows his audience too. Both the 9-to-5 factory worker and the bill-by-the-hour lawyer get vicarious thrills from watching Tony Soprano and his crew live large in suburbia, indulging all the appetites the average person keeps under wraps. After all, who doesn...
...three other brokers who had placed orders for the Big Bull defaulted on large payments owed to the exchange, leaving it nearly unable to meet expenses. At first the crash brought grief: brokers and investors on Lyons Range crumpled to the pavement, weeping. Then there was anger: a mob of brokers roamed the exchange's halls vowing to kill Singhania, who wisely went into hiding...