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The turbulent 1960s passed none too quickly with its political / sociological upheaval and in gangland we saw for the first time warring within the various crime families - the Gallo / Profacci War and the Banana War . As the 1970s dawned gangsters began not only vying for newspaper headlines, but now television airtime. Mortal mob enemies "Crazy Joe" Gallo and Joseph Colombo were the media targets of New York City and the city knew how to promote them. Both flamboyant characters would meet brutal, albeit well-publicized ending (www.crimelibrary.com....dex_1.html)
Quite a lot has been written and said about Al Capone in newspaper and magazine articles, books, and movies that is completely false. One of the most common fictions is that like many gangsters of that era, he was born in Italy. Absolutely not true. This amazing crime czar was strictly domestic - taking the feudal Italian criminal society and fashioning it into a modern American criminal enterprise (www.crimelibrary.com....dex_1.html)
Gangsters fund Bollywood's film makers, who make movies about gangsters . The funding is a loan-sharking operation, the profits are laundered money, and the actors hire their financiers to rub out rival thespians. It's like the MPAA, only less so. This two-way attraction has engendered a weird relationship between the films and the real-life villains. There is a curious symbiosis between the underworld and the movies. The Hindi film-makers are fascinated by the lives of the gangsters , and draw upon them for material. The gangsters , from the shooter on the ground to the don-in-exile at the top, watch Hindi movies keenly, and model themselves their dialogue, the way they carry themselves on their screen equivalents. (Suketu Mehta in The New Statesman, Mar 12 2001) Indeed, films like Satya portray mobsters with a curious blend of sympathy and revulsion, one that will feel familiar to fans of Hollywood films by Martin Scorsese . Link Discuss (via Schism Matrix , which is chock-full-o related links today (www.boingboing.net....ters-.html)
Gangsters fund Bollywood's film makers, who make movies about gangsters . The funding is a loan-sharking operation, the profits are laundered money, and the actors hire their "financiers" to rub out rival thespians. It's like the MPAA, only less so. This two-way attraction has engendered a weird relationship between the films and the real-life villains. "There is a curious symbiosis between the underworld and the movies. The Hindi film-makers are fascinated by the lives of the gangsters , and draw upon them for material. The gangsters , from the shooter on the ground to the don-in-exile at the top, watch Hindi movies keenly, and model themselves their dialogue, the way they carry themselves on their screen equivalents." (Suketu Mehta in The New Statesman, Mar 12 2001) Indeed, films like Satya portray mobsters with a curious blend of sympathy and revulsion, one that will feel familiar to fans of Hollywood films by Martin Scorsese . Link Discuss via Schism Matrix , which is chock-full-o related links toda (www.boingboing.net....ters-.html)
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