Hollywood’s ‘Bugsy’ is entertaining but plays fast and loose with the facts
In the 1991 movie Bugsy, Warren Beatty, portraying mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, stands in the desert near Highway 91 south…
Cocaine trafficking breeds violence in ZeroZeroZero
About 10 cartel assassins armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers stormed the deputy police chief’s house at 5 a.m., snuffed…
Dueling views of who killed Jimmy Hoffa
Three veteran journalists participating in a panel discussion at The Mob Museum on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa challenged the…
‘Mob Town’ movie spotlights notorious Mafia summit
One of the major events in organized crime history, the 1957 Apalachin summit, a gathering of Mafia leaders at a…
Ernest Hemingway on gangsters
Here’s how the story goes: Two hit men, Al and Max, enter Henry’s “lunch-room” in a town outside Chicago, looking…
Review: ‘The Irishman’ great film despite historical questions
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a great organized crime movie. It’s right up there with the director’s other great organized…
Is the new Martin Scorsese movie based on a true story?
Editor’s note: The Irishman, a Martin Scorsese movie, was released today in a limited number of theaters across North America…
Mob TV shows, movies put New York on center stage
When it comes to Mob movies and television shows, New York is in the spotlight again. Two television series focused…
Mob fixer Johnny Rosselli is back in the spotlight
“Strategist.” That word on Johnny Rosselli’s business card summed up his role as a Mob fixer whose colorful adult life,…
New Mob movies focus on women
Women are taking center stage in several Mob movie projects now in the news. Hitting movie theaters this summer is…