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...black arts of the back room; this spoils his image for the general public, which seeks a purer hero for President. John Kennedy understood this, says McPherson, and shirked his senatorial duties while making himself appealing to the public. To Lyndon Johnson, says McPherson, J.F.K. was the "enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then winsomely disappears before the table clearing and dishwashing begin...
More than $14 million, in fact -enough to assure him of a second shot at film making. Before that, he played, improbably, the nephew of one 007 in Casino Royale. Allen got no scenarist's credit for the film, but audiences could sense his touch throughout. "I have a low threshold of death," he bleated in one scene, as a firing squad counted down, aiming their rifles at his sunken chest...
...hero of Open Heart, for instance, a moony young teacher named Antonio Parr, runs up and down his emotional scales several times when he learns that his wife has slept with his young nephew. But there is no real danger that he will follow his impulse and in revenge take his 17-year-old student Laura to bed. In fact there are no real dangers of any kind in Buechner's gentle world. Death, pain and anxiety exist, but are seen small; the hideous, wasting illness that kills Antonio's twin sister at the beginning of Lion Country...
...openly enough when reputed Mafia Chieftain Joe Colombo was gunned down last year at an outdoor rally for his Italian-American Civil Rights League. Then in April "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Colombo's archenemy, was assassinated in the relative privacy of a Little Italy clam house. Last month the nephew of Carlo Gambino, boss of the nation's strongest Mafia family and a Colombo ally, was kidnaped...
...Gambino caper proved so perplexing that a special federal grand jury was impaneled last week to sort out the details. As pieced together by Justice Department officials, the case sounds like a chapter out of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It seems that the missing nephew, Emmanuel ("Manny Boy") Gambino, 29, was not one of Uncle Carlo's favorites. Assigned as a loan shark, Manny doled out the better part of $1,000,000 in Gambino family money to borrowers who were very tough in resisting his demands for repayment. Worse yet, a few months...