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...syndicates, with wide-ranging interests to protect, have no desire to see local violence get out of hand. But mob bosses may not be able to control their subordinates the way they once did. "If the lower-level yakuza aren't getting any money or any work, they won't listen as well to their bosses," says Benjamin Fulford, a Tokyo-based journalist who writes on the gangs. More than half of yakuza are now classified by police as "associates" rather than fully fledged members; in 1991, only 1 out of 3 yakuza were associates...
...with a trailer for Machete - not a fake film, since Rodriguez, who wastes nothing, reportedly plans to make this movie. It stars Rodriguez's cousin Danny Trejo, whose leathery face is already rated R for menacing violence, and Cheech Marin as a priest called to arm himself against the mob. When a man on the receiving end of Marin's gun pleads for mercy, the padre replies, "God has mercy. I don't," and blasts away. (The line paraphrases the title of the first Bud Spencer-Terence Hill spaghetti Western God Forgives...
Celiento, 50, seems perfectly cast to play the part of policeman in this pulsating Mediterranean city: quick-witted and classically handsome, with salt-and-pepper hair, mirrored sunglasses and a well-pressed blue uniform. But he's not cracking Mob cases. He's using the STOP paddle in his right hand to pull taxis over at random--checking if their meters are rigged--and show passing motorists in hectic Piazza Garibaldi that the Law is indeed watching, if mostly for minor violations...
Still, by day's end, we are reminded again that the Mob here is indeed more than folklore. The Camorra truce has been broken, and three people have been gunned down in a six-hour span. In at least one of the hits, two killers arrived by scooter. Both were wearing helmets...
...episodes, heavy on domestic drama, may frustrate fans of the Mob story lines, and several major characters (Uncle Junior, Dr. Melfi, Paulie Walnuts) are absent or on the sidelines. While there are a couple of nasty whackings, the most physically and emotionally brutal scene is sparked by a drunken game of Monopoly. (Tony, unsurprisingly, palms $500 from the bank and believes in the Free Parking--jackpot rule.) But Tony's personal crises--getting older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven...