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Virtually no one with a checkbook was turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUSY BACK-DOOR MEN | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...wake of Wallace's death, as with Shakur's, records bearing his name sold out in stores nationwide; the new CD is expected to be a hot seller. Americans have long been drawn to the symbiosis between criminal life and pop culture--from Frank Sinatra and his alleged mobster pals to the success of the Godfather saga, which is scheduled for an anniversary re-release this week, to the fact that John Gotti's daughter has a new novel out. In the case of gangsta rap, however, the music, though often purchased by suburban whites, is primarily identified with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

More than just a macho mobster novel, Payback centers around two brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. Paddy is an ex-boxer who just missed Olympic glory and at 32, has spent his life working for Jack Tierney as a mob enforcer. Billy is the first in the family to have left life as a laborer behind to embrace education, a college degree and a sub-urban, green-lawn dream of prosperity...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Mob Novel With A Subterranean Twist | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...Chinese arms dealers that he was a Mafia big shot who was in the market to buy guns for drug rings and street gangs. By the time the undercover deal was over, Hipple and his partner, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who also posed as a mobster, had persuaded the brokers to smuggle 2,000 fully automatic Chinese-government-made AK-47s into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANATOMY OF A STING | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need to understand how she knew he would be in this particular and peculiar place--a cemetery, not some social club in Little Italy--at just this moment. Or when the Teacher needs to car bomb the mobster's limousine, we need to have some hint of how he gained access to it when the last we knew they were miles apart. For that matter, it would be nice if the director, Brian Gibson, who has also done better things (What's Love Got to Do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A SUMMONS TO AVOID | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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