Word: mobsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach, should watch Lee Strasberg at work in The Godfather, Part II and repent. The most widely known and respected acting teacher in America turns in a cunning and finely tuned performance as Hyman Roth, a Jewish mobster. Strasberg is 73, and this is his movie debut...
...first convict to try writing his way to rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme. Measured by the professional accomplishments of its members, the class is the most successful program...
...location in Japan to play a detective in Sydney Pollack's Japanese mobster movie The Yakuza, Old Pro Robert Mitchum, 56, himself was mobbed. Strolling through the Gion, Kyoto's geisha district, the star found himself surrounded by geisha pleading, "Please, Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
Thus ended Cain's remarkable double-dealing life as a policeman and mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another episode began with Bixby in love with a sweet young thing who turned out to be masquerading under a fake identity with the help of the Government because she once fingered a mobster. Actor Bixby is surely worthy of better things than a soulful love scene with lines like, "Two people . . . [pause] . . . become as one [pause] . . . forever," mumbled with mystical intensity as he symbolically fiddles with an entwined set of bracelets on her sweet young wrist. Despite a whole magician's supply...