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...television to expose what he claimed was the systematic embezzlement of public funds by some of his colleagues. Before he could blow the whistle, members of Mitsui's own department arrested him. Mitsui's family and other supporters say the charges against him?tax evasion and collusion with a mobster?were trumped up to keep him from going public. Indeed, Mitsui can't talk to anyone but his lawyer while he languishes behind bars. (Justice Ministry officials deny there was embezzlement in the prosecutor's office. They also deny Mitsui was arrested to prevent him from airing his allegations...
...GoodFellas, Ray Liotta’s character remarks that he and his gangster pals had been treated like “movie stars with muscle” during their heyday. On Monday, June 10, New York City’s real-life “movie star” mobster died of head and neck cancer at the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. John Gotti, age 61, was the Big Apple’s most identifiable gangster during the late 1980s. After being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992, the so-called “Dapper Don?...
...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...