Word: sicilian
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Since his Godfather II role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with...
...immigrant Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...conspired to kill Jordan, using a St. Louis advertising salesman as middleman. The purported plot fell through when Merritts and the salesman tried to hire an undercover FBI agent as the triggerman. "They let a blond, blue-eyed agent pass himself off as a member of the Sicilian Mafia," said U.S. Attorney Henry Schwarz, who is prosecuting the case against Merritts...
...battle speeches, his dashing tank tactics and the almost sinister boyishness with which he rushed into combat ("L'audace, toujours I'audace"), he was probably war's last romantic. "I love wars and am having a fine time," he wrote to his wife Beatrice during the Sicilian campaign. "When it cools off, I am going to have a closeup of the Greek temples...
...little more sorrowfully, the exotic compulsions of physical and political passion. Mimi is set in Sicily, the location of much good Italian comedy. Sicily is one of those places that seem to be unconditionally guaranteed laugh getters, like Brooklyn or Southern California. What Wertmuller satirizes here is the peculiar Sicilian confluence of honor and hypocrisy, illegality and sanctimony...