Legs provides considerable subject matter for discussion. It might most effectively be discussed alongside both literary and cinematic treatments of gangsters since that subject has such appeal in American popular culture. A comparison of Legs and Billy Bathgate might be particularly interesting because of their reliance on a first person narrative point of view and relatively perceptive albeit very different narrators in terms of age. The Godfather films all concern themselves with that gangster integrity which Gorman admires in Diamond and which is worth analyzing. While gangster movies are too numerous to note here, a film entitled Legs Diamond starring Ray Danton might offer an interesting counterpoint to Kennedy's fiction in showing the difference between serious (Kennedy's) and popular treatments of Jack. Kennedy's script work on Coppola's The Cotton Club (1983-1984) does not treat Diamond but instead Dutch Schultz and Prohibition era ambiance and might be...