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...mother named her Nora after Ibsen's feminist in A Doll's House, and she certainly slammed the door noisily when leaving her first two marriages. But she and her current husband Nicholas Pileggi are more like Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora -- for one thing, they have been making much of their living off of crime...
...Simon & Schuster agreed to pay career criminal Henry Hill $100,000 for telling author Nicholas Pileggi about life inside the Mafia. The resulting book, Wiseguy, became a best seller and the basis for the hit movie GoodFellas. But New York State's highest court ruled that the payment to Hill violated the 1977 "Son of Sam" law, so named for the pseudonym of serial killer David Berkowitz. Designed to keep crooks from cashing in on their crimes, the measure required that any earnings from selling their stories be used to compensate their victims. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court struck...
GoodFellas, the homicidally funny fresco of a Mafia family that Scorsese has made from the Nicholas Pileggi book Wiseguy, is the centerpiece in a new rogues' gallery. Mob movies are gathering, like capos at the Appalachia conference, from all over America. You want Italian-American hoods of the New York City stripe? We got 'em by the hundreds in GoodFellas. In My Blue Heaven, written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron as a kind of comic coda to the Scorsese picture, Steve Martin plays a Mafia rat in a Witness Protection Program out West. At Christmas, Paramount has The Godfather...
Sterling's book is not as sprightly as Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy, but it is thoroughly researched, with details of drugs shipped in wigs, cows' bellies, and women's girdles. Sterling studied wiretap and court transcripts, then interviewed cops, judges, prosecutors and even Mafiosi. Her book shows how the failure of U.S. and Italian authorities to compare notes and settle turf disputes allowed the Sicilians to win the heroin war. While Washington focuses on the Medellin cocaine cartel, the Sicilians merrily push heroin Stateside and are opening up new cocaine channels to Europe -- both East and West. Their newest target...
...AFFAIR: THE CASE OF ALFRED DREYFUS, Jean-Denis Bredin LESS THAN ONE, Joseph Brodsky RAIN OR SHINE, Cyra McFadden THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR, Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE TENDER PASSION, Peter Gay WISEGUY, Nicholas Pileggi...