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...wild card at their rehearsal table is Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), chorine, ineptly aspiring thespian and gangster's moll. Nick, her mobster lover (Joe Viterelli), is backing the show, in which, nasal accent and all, she is supposed to play a psychiatrist. Nick supplies Olive with a bodyguard. Try to cut one of her lines and you have a hood named Cheech (playwright-actor Chazz Palminteri) to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Gangster Steals the Show | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Singing mobster gets five years for 19 murders: 3.16 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Oct. 10, 1994 | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

There was a satisfying airport paperback, with pink cover and gold-embossed lettering for the title, to be written about Blue. Where is Judith Krantz, the reader muses, when we need her? And never mind that the Jacob King figure is an obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hollywood Babble-On | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Barry "the Blade" Moldanno (Anthony La Paglia), the feared mobster whose knife inspires Jerome Clifford to commit suicide before Barry can kill him is, as his Mafia-kingpin uncle says, "stupid." Reducing criminal intrigue to a new level of sleaze and triteness, Moldanno adds almost nothing to a plot which pertains to him only in the murder he committed before the film begins...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Schumacher Continues 'Firm' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...more significant problem of illegal ticket scalping. According to authorities, organized crime is deeply involved in the illicit reselling of tickets. When a $25 ticket can ultimately sell for $500, the difference amounts to a large chunk of untraceable cash -- a phrase that is pure music to a mobster's ears. Police sources told Time last week that the Mob runs some scalping operations in New York and other large cities. Blocks of tickets earmarked by performers for charities such as impoverished youth groups, for example, are instead often delivered to Mafia operatives and end up in the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'N' Roll's Holy War | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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