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CINEMA KENMORE SQ. Valachi Papers...
...defiance of Mafia tradition did not mark him as particularly savvy. Neither did his open claim that he was about to write his memoirs. Other gangsters do not appreciate such literature. There was, for example, a $100,000 contract-for his death, not his papers-out on Joseph Valachi, who wrote in detail of his life with the Mob (he died of natural causes in prison). But Author Marta Curro, the wife of Actor Jerry Orbach, eagerly agreed to help write the book because she had discovered that Joey was "a great person, brilliant, absolutely charming" (see box, page...
...Godmother, a movie (a retitled American version of a film by the respected French director Jean-Pierre Mel ville) called The Godson. Paramount is planning the official Puzo-scripted sequel to The Godfather - The Death of Michael Corleone. Also in the works is a movie version of The Valachi Papers, the memoirs of Cosa Nostra veteran Joe Valachi. There is even a Godfather game, in which players compete for control of the rackets...
...shortage of cash was directly related to Mafia difficulties in recent years: A summit conference at Apalachin was raided; Joe Valachi revealed all their secret handshakes on television; the Government began to penetrate their rule of silence with a law requiring testimony under a grant of immunity...
...word Mafia isn't used much any more. And I never heard the term Cosa Nostra until Joe Valachi* used it. But there is one big gang that runs organized crime in this country. It has many different names-the Organization, the Syndicate. We generally call it the Mob. New young people who become members call it the Outfit...