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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boss of All Bosses was dead, three ruthless racketeers were plotting to replace him, and platoons of hard-eyed "greenies" were waiting for orders to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: AFTER THE DON: A DONNYBROOK? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...Carmine Galente, 66, nicknamed "Lillo" and "the Cigar." Since getting out of Lewisburg federal penitentiary in 1974, after serving a 15-year sentence for drug trafficking, Galente has controlled the remnants of the Joseph Bonanno family in New York. Says one Mafia source: "Lillo would shoot you in church during high Mass." Galente, it is said, had no respect for Gambino because the latter "never broke an egg in his life." Unverified Mob talk last week went so far as to suggest that Galente ordered his spies within the Gambino family to persuade the capo di tutti capi to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: AFTER THE DON: A DONNYBROOK? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...picture about a giant creature, and it started producers -notably Universal-thinking about other big-animal properties, like Kong. Universal also entered into negotiations with RKO and thought they had a deal when the sale to Dino was suddenly announced. Hurt feelings-and lawsuits-ensued. Both sides advertised start-shooting dates of Jan. 15 of this year, thinking to scare the other off. Says De Laurentiis: "We need four months to get ready to shoot, but I gotta show Universal that I'm ready when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...were used to manipulate the huge fingers, and there was great concern that they might lack fine motor skills and accidentally crush Lange. Like all the other Kong paraphernalia, they were not ready until the production was well along, and Guillermin had about run out of surrounding material to shoot. Finally the huge paws were ready, and De Laurentiis was summoned to the set to witness a test. Amidst high excitement, the great arm extended in the producer's direction and then the middle finger slowly uncurled and extended itself in the gesture recently granted respectability by the Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Epps said that he wanted the orchestra to shoot for all-Harvard, that he would set 90 per cent as an absolute minimum, and that any outsider HRO wanted to admit would likely have to be approved by a committee on which Epps would...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Quotas, HRO Style | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

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