Word: mobster
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...problem with the second season of "The Sopranos" was that it wasn't really the second season; it was the first. The ostensible first season, in 1999, was a seamless, self-contained, original and stunning work, spread over 13 installments, following New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) through his business and family entanglements. These two threads came together in his furtive psychoanalysis sessions, and in the person of Tony's mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand), who arranged an attempt on his life. It ended, neatly if ambiguously, with Tony angrily confronting her in the hospital after she had a stroke...
...influence-peddling scandal in Seoul has yielded a steady stream of revelations about unsavory ties between gangsters and politicians. One of the biggest shockers came in October when the eldest son of President Kim Dae Jung was forced to admit he had met at least twice with the powerful mobster-cum-political-fixer at the center of the scandal. Koreans nervously laughed off the finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials and politicians close to the President. Yeo Un Hwan, the mobster...
...godfather is coy about Gangstergate and his own political connections, although he says he has received requests to "help out" in this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch...
...calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead and the other half wants to have a chat with him. He has managed to tick off every Japanese, Mexican, black and Mafia mobster in town...
...used his own telephone without even trying to use code words. He drove a flashy Lexus that made him stand out. He left records of the transactions around. He used his wife to monitor the money and kids to run the operation. He prided himself on being a mobster. But he sure forgot what John Gotti taught...