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ARRESTED. DOBROSAV GAVRIC, 23, Serb policeman; for the Mob-style slaying on Jan. 15 of Serbian warlord Arkan; by Belgrade police. Gavric, on sick leave, reportedly had links to the underworld...
...Carey and girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. In the Hamptons, he sips Cristal with Martha Stewart and Calvin Klein. So why should he have anything but the best when it comes to legal representation? In anticipation of a weapons-felony indictment last week, Combs signed up attorneys Benjamin Brafman--who represented Mob turncoat Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano--and JOHNNIE COCHRAN (you may remember his work with a certain former football player). "There should not be a rush to judgment," said Brafman after the indictment, a sentiment clearly endorsed by Puffy. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison, where...
...Glocks-up review amuses Chase, a Mob-movie buff from childhood, but it doesn't shock him. "I knew that contemporary wiseguys were very much influenced by the Godfather films and watched them continuously," he notes. "That becomes kind of a strange loop." Thus, in the show, Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) cracks up his Mob buddies with an Al Pacino impersonation from the maligned Godfather III ("Just when I thought I was out--they pull me back in!"), while family chief Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) expresses a preference for The Godfather II over the original. What characters, indeed. Like...
...them--but they too honored the series last year with 16 nominations, including a stunning four of the five slots for drama writing (Chase and James Manos Jr. won for the episode in which Tony takes time out from a college tour with his daughter to kill a Mob informer). The show won only four statuettes, but its dominance of the writing category was its most appropriate tribute. For all its crisp direction, impeccable casting and at least half a dozen standout performances, this is above all a writers' show...
...Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act--a law often used in the past by the government to combat Mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president RON CAREY, ejected from the union in 1997 after a finding that his 1996 run for the top job was tainted by campaign-finance abuses...