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...Interscope's sales have nearly tripled, to about $340 million this year. A hefty portion of those sales was spun off by its hugely profitable rap subsidiary, Death Row Records, whose owner, Suge Knight, is in prison and whose biggest star, Tupac, is dead, victim of a gangster-style rubout as he rode in Suge's BMW. Facing this kind of continuity problem, Iovine and Fields started focusing the company's resources on nonrap acts, and the shift is paying...
...Paper reprises this theme, less to celebrate old times than to offer a skeptical perspective on career men and women. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), metro editor for the Sun, a New York City tabloid, has to worry about a local race crime -- or is it a mob rubout? -- on a day when he should be thinking about his pregnant, ex-reporter wife (Marisa Tomei) and the cushier job she wants him to take at an uptown daily. There are clever doses of cynicism and office politicking, but at heart The Paper wants to be a Front Page...
Chiodo, who began cooperating with prosecutors after surviving an attempted Mob rubout last year, is scheduled to appear at the Gotti trial. Federal officials also regard him as a prime witness against alleged Lucchese crime boss Vittorio Amuso...
...tell TIME that the dead teen has since become a suspect in a homicide that may or may not be Mob connected. After Speranza's death, things were eerily quiet until last week, when a 62-year-old Colombo captain named Nicholas (Nicky Black) Grancio became the highest-ranking rubout of all. Grancio, whom sources describe as a "peacemaker," was whacked while sitting in his Toyota Land Cruiser...
...Lucchese family (members: 125) suffered three leadership changes this year alone. One boss was jailed, while another, Alphonse D'Arco, fearing an internal assassination, has been singing to the feds. An underboss is on the lam, and a 450-lb. caporegime who survived 12 bullet wounds in a rubout attempt last summer has become a government witness. Like the Colombos, the family is now split into two factions. Before Gravano's defection last week, the Gambinos were rumored to be considering a takeover of the floundering Luccheses, whose talents include garbage hauling and stolen-car rings...