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...directing Death to Smoochy gives DeVito a lot of juice, he is one messed-up guy. This movie is not for the light-hearted, and intentionally interchanges between the blithe and the bloody. In one scene, Smoochy will be getting jiggy with it and in the next, a mobster will be headed toward axe-decapitation. The witty one-liners, harsh physical comedy and dark, biting tone force the audience to laugh out loud while squirming in their seats...
SEPARATING. JAMES GANDOLFINI, 40, TV mobster, from his wife of three years, Marcy, a former public relations executive; in New York City. The Sopranos star's publicist said he had initiated divorce proceedings. The couple have a son, Michael...
Jonah Eastman, a Washington pollster, was a top Republican image meister in his better days. But his reputation is down, and he's just about out when he is summoned by a Philadelphia Mafia don who makes him an offer he can't refuse: Improve my image. The mobster, Mario Vanni, wants enough legitimacy to win a big casino license. Conflicted, Eastman obliges, and Money Wanders (St. Martin's) becomes a riotous parody of Internet players, journalists, politicians and pollsters alike. Eastman finds himself surrounded by Atlantic City wise guys, including some who regard the "Ivory League" graduate...
Over the next decade drugs and mobster Whitey Bulger would exact a heavy price on the community, before the area began a revival that would bring people of many races and nationalities to the area...
...visiting summer show. Kaplan, a pale, balding, pug-nosed 41-year-old with increasingly dark circles around his eyes, sits attentively in court as a cast of witnesses describe the shadier side of what he and his defense lawyers insist is a legitimate business. John Givens, an admitted mobster turned government witness, recently told of how he once sliced off a man's ear and slit another's nostrils to insert lit cigars...