Jimmy Roselli ("Little Pal" is the only real mob song), Nicola DiBari, Pavarotti, Bocelli.
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Movies
Godfather I & II (why did they ever do III?), Once Upon a Time in America, Johnny Stecchino, Cinema Paradiso, Flight of the Innocent, Pope of Greenwich Village, King of New York.
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Television
Rome (replace the sheets with suits and it's more realistic mob stuff than Sopranos)
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Heroes
RR, TR, Gen. MacArthur (should have been allowed to kick Korea's and China's asses), Larry Gallo (R.I.P.; was the best), Joe Petrosino (never thought I'd admire a cop), Ollie North & G. Gordon Liddy (two standup guys).
About me: Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, raised in the Red Hook and Navy Yard sections of South Brooklyn: mob country
Targeted in a three-and-a-half year undercover operation by New York’s Organized Crime Control Bureau; characterized by the New York Post as “…a middle echelon member” of one of New York’s five mob families; got three years in State Prison on that one; maxed out in Sing Sing, Dannemora, Downstate, and Arthurkill.
Convicted in 1985 of racketeering by Rudy Giuliani's office, under the RICO statute, by Rudolph Giuliani's office; caught another seven years in federal prison. During that term...maxed out again...completed first novel, BLOOD OF OUR FATHERS.
"AN AUTHENTIC THRILLER FROM A MOB GUY WHO'S OBVIOUSLY BEEN THERE." -- Nicholas Pileggi, Author of Wiseguy & screenwriter of Goodfellas.
"THIS STORY IS NOT JUST FOR THE GUYS. IT'S LIKE JACKIE COLLINS MEETS MARIO PUZO. I LOVED IT." -- Katherine Narducci (Sopranos, Bronx Tale, etc.)
New novel, SNAKE EYES, about a bookmaker squeezed by the feds, Russians, and mobsters.
"SONNY CERTAINLY KNOWS ALL THE PLAYERS, AND WHEN IT COMES TO THIS KIND OF BOOK HES'S AS GOOD AS ANYONE." --James Caan, actor, The Godfather, Vegas (NBC TV)
"SEX AND ROMANCE, MOBSTERS AND SPIES. WHAT MORE COULD A GIRL ASK FOR?" -- Kim Delaney, actor, NYPD Blue (ABC-TV)
Due to mob experience and ability to communicate about organized crime and other mayhem, have been in demand from various television shows and newspapers like. He recently appeared on Fox Network’s “National Enquirer T.V., The O’Reilly Factor, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, for “Mob Week.” Italy’s RAI T.V. and Italian national newspapers “Corriere Della Sera” and “Il Tempo" all did bio pieces.
Who I'd like to meet: REAL people...no wannabes...interested in funding film, other media people. Don't give a rat's ass about the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker. Always into beautiful girls...with brains. Past the "Duh" stage. Those who want to read authentic mob stuff from the inside, not from guys with their noses pressed to the window or stoolpigeons bullshitting other writers.
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