Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owns real estate in New York's Little Italy; questions about any possible underworld ties are constantly asked, as if such a connection were inevitable. Even the most tenuous bits of information made huge, unfair headlines: a pornography distributor is a tenant in one Zaccaro building; a reputed mobster rents an apartment in a building Zaccaro inherited from his father 13 years ago and immediately sold; an imprisoned swindler once owned a building that Zaccaro managed. TIME learned that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani asked Zaccaro to his office last Thursday to talk about a 1972 real estate transaction. Zaccaro...
Rourke and Roberts develop a magnetic bond between their two characters, and that alone makes the movie worth seeing. At one point, when Rourke's Charlie realizes that Paulie knew all along that they had dangerously robbed a mobster's safe, Charlie fiercely slaps Paulie around and then surprisingly pats his face tenderly. This combination of fierce love and angry concern keeps the two together, leaving them with no one else. The two encounter the mob, and almost succumb until Charlie plays his trump card, and finally shows that while he can stand on his own, he still needs Paulie...
...book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype is Korda's natural gift ("My argument is with people who do not view the world cynically," he once said). He published an "as told to" book by an aging mobster, Joseph Bonanno. Critics complained that it romanticized the Mafia and objected to its title, A Man of Honor. The title was Korda's, who later explained, "It does not affirm that Simon & Schuster thinks he is a man of honor, but that that is what he claims...
...prayer before the lavish meals the family shared with notorious killers. Few guests could be counted on as regulars at Giancana's table. Some periodically vanished into penitentiaries. Others were removed by hired guns. Yet Giancana never failed to bring his family to the wake of a fellow mobster, even when the deceased had fallen victim to one of his own enforcers...
...playboy mobster conducted a decade-long affair with Entertainer Phyllis McGuire while the FBI tuned in via bugs in the bedroom. When he was not playing, he proved a puritanical father. He told Antoinette that "only whores go into modeling" when she tried to become a model. He halted her love affair with a Greek doctor by ordering his enforcers to beat...