Word: mobsters
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...made up for his shortcomings with entertainments. He threw Fourth of July parties for his neighbors in Queens, N.Y., making himself the toast of the locals. (His folk-heroism was always a peculiarly parochial, New York City phenomenon, like Ed Koch or egg creams.) He made like a mobster out of central casting, plunging into night life wearing $2,000 suits (hence his nickname "the Dapper Don") and taunting the feds by being acquitted three times (hence, "the Teflon Don") before the charges stuck...
...their own homes--do not act like Mob bosses. Gotti was foolhardy, he was blowhard-y, he talked too proudly and loudly, and the government finally gave him enough blank tape to hang himself. In 1992 he was sent up for murder and racketeering. If his mobster act was his doom, though, it was also his source of legitimacy. Where did he learn what we expect a Mob boss to look like? Well, where did you? Pop culture's fascination with mobsters--in movies, in song, on TV--is older than Gotti was. But it was his generation of gangsters...
...viewers. It has the freedom to show naughty bits. So where is its Sopranos? Not here, though this grim look at parolees and their watchers tries. Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls' cuddly Mr. Medina) shows some edge as a controlling parole officer, and guest star Red Buttons shines as a mobster in a who's-controlling-whom relationship with Cohen. But the writing is flat--like the clumsily topical terrorism subplot--and co-star Rob Morrow, as an ex-drug dealer trying to avoid the thug life, makes the least convincing felon since Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy. Give Street Time...
...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...