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Scorsese at 70: Bringing the Rolling Stones into the mix

WRITER'S NOTE: 2012 marks the 70th birthday of Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. So during the year, the National Classic Cinema...
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DeNiro, Pacino, Pesci, Scorsese to team up for The Irishman

It looks as if the next epic gangster film in development from Paramount Pictures will be The Irishman which is an adaptation of the Charles Brandt...
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Mob Character Actor Tony Darrow Sentencing Verdict

Anthony Borgese, who goes by the stage name of Tony Darrow, has been a fixture in gangster films since his memorable role in the classic film...
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The true story of Henry Hill in Locked Up Abroad the Real Goodfella

"Goodfellas, " by Martin Scorcese, is considered one of the best movies about mob life ever made. The gripping story of a gangster turned...
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Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the Dodgers’ sordid saga also plods on…

Much like the New York Mets unstable ownership situation, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ ownership/divorce/investigationsby state authorities...
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Top 10 most fibbed-about films

You want to appear smart, connected, in touch with pop culture. During a dinner conversation with friends, someone refers to movies that everyone...
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Muhammad Ali gave broke college student ringside seat to history, March 8, 1971

  • Joe Frazier Versus Muhammad Ali
  • March 7, 2011
(THIS TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011, MARKS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOXING'S GENUINE 'FIGHT OF THE CENTURY,' WHEN UNBEATEN MUHAMMAD ALI WAS...
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Netflix Instant Watch Releases - Happy New Year Edition, Part 1

With 2011 upon us, a flood of great films has come to Netflix Instant. In fact, there are so many that one column can't describe them all, so I...
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Why ‘Gone With The Wind’ whacks ‘Goodfellas’ every time

We chose two Academy Award winning motion pictures to view at home this past week, from two different eras, yet both poignantly and volubly...
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Italian Food, The Mob, and The Movies I

Food is Love. Love is Food. At least that's the way it was in our house, or more accurately, our tenement apartment in Greenwich Village in the...
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