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...course, hope for a false step." Provenzano has rarely put a foot wrong in more than 50 years with the Mafia. As a poor teenager in Corleone in central Sicily, he latched onto Michele Navarra's clan after World War II. With his buddy Totò Riina, the young mobster then served as muscle for ambitious boss Luciano Liggio, who once reportedly said that Provenzano "has the brains of a chicken but shoots like an angel." In 1958 Riina and Provenzano led a fatal ambush on Navarra, riddling his car with 112 bullets, leaving Liggio as the undisputed godfather...
...says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie runs a record label that's in debt to Dabu, but she's being protected by boyfriend and entrepreneurial mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta). This is the first meaty film role for Andre, who had a bit part in last year's Hollywood Homicide. He is next set to play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic. "Once you're an entertainer, you pretty much sell your real life," says Andre. "In movies...
...suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant sting operation...
...York Post. He does not care to give interviews (though he seemed amused when asked for one, and told a TIME reporter, "Have a nice day"). His couture is less dapper than schlepper: jeans and T shirts (he doesn't like wearing a tie), without the usual mobster adornments of a siliconed blond on each arm. He has never been accused of swagger. About as close as he got to being a public figure was in '87, when he was tried and acquitted for the slaying of three rival captains. (The charge was only conspiracy...
...Colgan story illustrates the symbiotic relationship between mobster and fed. In '81 Colgan led a team of 40 agents who planted a microphone in the ceiling at J&S. "It lasted maybe 12, 24 hours, then it went quiet," the ex-agent recalls. "Joey repeatedly swept the place. We knew we were compromised." Colgan's boss wanted the pricey piece of equipment back. So when Colgan spotted a wiseguy entering the social club, he coattailed himself inside. The wiseguy took a swing at him, and several other men rushed him. "The next thing, I hear, I don't see, 'Relax...