A pair of mob shootings in three days, one of them reminiscent of a hit on last week's episode of "The Sopranos," prompted speculation of a nascent Mafia war in New York City.Not likely, according ...
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THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNIONBy Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 414 pages, $26.95
I’m not wild about hardboiled detective fiction. Raymond Chandler may paint a gritt...
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Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took ...
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Among the five Academy Award directing nominees, one name seems to be on everyone's lips: Martin Scorsese.Nominated five times previously for best director since the 1980 masterpiece "Raging Bull,"...
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Timing is everything when the distance between champion and chump is measured in hundredths- and sometimes thousands-of-a-second.So nearly a year after most people quit paying attention, a few will...
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Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took ...
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It's a dramatic shift, when funny men turn serious. Even Eddie Murphy, the latest of Hollywood's top comic performers to try, has had some laughs over his own transformation, which could bring him ...
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The Academy Awards usually are like one of those high school popularity contests where all the other contenders show up, but there's that one girl everybody just knows is going to be crowned prom q...
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In early 2004, mob veteran Vincent Basciano took over as head of the Bonanno crime family. The reign of the preening, pompadoured Mafioso known as Vinny Gorgeous lasted only slightly longer than a ...
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NYC Mob war unlikely despite recent hits
