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Hollywood's love affair with gangster stories has been particularly intense, from Little Caesar and Angels With Dirty Faces back in the 1930s to such modern-day classics as The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, Miller's Crossing and TV's The Sopranos. The Making of the Mob: New York is a...

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Published inWinnipeg free press
Main Author Brad Oswald / Watching TV
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Winnipeg, Man FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership 13.06.2015
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Summary:Hollywood's love affair with gangster stories has been particularly intense, from Little Caesar and Angels With Dirty Faces back in the 1930s to such modern-day classics as The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, Miller's Crossing and TV's The Sopranos. The Making of the Mob: New York is an ambitious and mostly entertaining docu-drama that chronicles the rise of underworld figures Charles (Lucky) Luciano, [Meyer Lansky II], Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese to the top of New York City's organized-crime world during the first half of the 1930s. It's fun to see actors such as Chazz Palminteri (A Bronx Tale), Joe Mantegna (The Godfather, Part III), The Sopranos' Vincent Pastore, Frank Vincent and Drea De Matteo, former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani and New Jersey-born singer Frankie Valli offer their perspectives on New York's crime history, but their "expert" credentials seem more than a little bit shaky.
ISSN:0828-1785