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...KNOW anything about Magic Johnson, you'll have to take the word of everyone who does that he is an amazing person, a paragon of unselfishness, humility, hard work, optimism and public-mindedness totally anomalous in today's sordid underworld of professional sports. It is no coincidence that the hundreds of players, reporters and league officials who know him personally--not to mention the millions of inner-city teenagers, schoolteachers, police officers and corporate executives who don't--were devastated by his announcement...
...trick of Doctorow's novel -- a meditation on '30s Mob boss Dutch Schultz -- was in its narrative voice. Young Billy, from Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, was the ideal observer: a talisman for the gang, a kind of underworld groupie who is appreciative of their style and implicated in their actions but still one ironic step outside their souls, and who is ready to analyze every movement and moment in 484 pages of headlong streetwise orotundity and subordinate clauses even longer than this one. Tom Stoppard's script daringly dumps that voice (there is no voice-over narration) and puts...
...Using sound business principles, he laid the foundations of modern resort gambling. In his later years he hired tutors, was a regular at the Miami Beach Public Library and a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club. To his retired cronies he was an engaging cafeteria philosopher. His underworld associates found his ethical views sufficiently compatible to still trust him with their swag...
BOOKS Deflating the underworld legend of Meyer Lansky...
...used to be the sole domain of shadowy, underworld Mafia-types, but not anymore...