Scarface retains cult status with Al Pacino’s ‘iconic’ performance
The 1983 movie Scarface, featuring Al Pacino in the title role, continues to attract attention more than 40 years after it premiered. Regarded as a cult classic, the Brian De Palma-directed gangster movie, focusing on South Florida’s violent drug wars of the 1980s, is back in the news with the recent publication of The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface by film critic Glenn Kenny. As with his earlier book, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas, Kenny, in The World Is Yours, interviews people involved in making the movie, providing insights into how it came together and what its impact has ...
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The life and crimes of a Sinaloa sicario
Ten years ago, the confessions of a California-based hitman revealed new information on decades-old unsolved cases and offered a glimpse…
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Oscar-winning ‘On the Waterfront’ premiered 70 years ago, with Marlon Brando as a dockworker confronting the Mob
On the Waterfront, which debuted 70 years ago this summer, is a ground-breaking tale about dockworkers standing up to a…
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In 1980s New York, the Mob had its hands in everything — even a museum
This is The Mob Museum, but it has never been a mobbed-up museum. As surprising as it may seem, that…
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Mobsters and their four-legged associates: The top 5 pets of organized crime
“You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do…
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Irish drug kingpin’s whereabouts revealed through Google reviews
The longtime head of an Irish drug and weapons cartel has been posting Google restaurant reviews and travel tidbits from…
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Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond: The clay pigeon of the underworld
A bootlegger, enforcer, dopeman and erstwhile folk hero, Jack “Legs” Diamond was like a charming archvillain in a lurid detective…
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Twenty-five years ago, ‘Analyze This’ offered a comedic take on a Mafia boss under psychiatric care
When the movie Analyze This premiered in theaters 25 years ago, it portrayed a Mob boss far different from the…
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