Word: mafioso
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...Pope was a little more direct in his remarks, blasting the Mafioso by name as "operators of aberrant manifestations of criminality." Hardly an all-out frontal assault, but then this pontiff has never been one for drastic action, Rather, he concluded with a hopeful vision of the future. "Delightful Palermo open haven, secure haven, live in serenity and peace...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...
...also learned that Ralph Picardo, an admitted Mafioso turned Government witness, told the FBI in January 1981 that he had received regular payoffs from Donovan during the 1960s to ensure labor peace. He also alleges that Anthony Adamski, the FBI agent in charge of Donovan's confirmation check, told him that White House Counsel Fred Fielding had called and told Adamski that "the White House wants [the investigation] over with." Picardo's word is unverified, and Fielding last week again denied he had interfered with the Donovan probe...
...according to an FBI report gained from the informant-that "the time for the murder was very near and that Allen must be prepared to carry out the assignment on a moment's notice." That order never came, Allen told the subcommittee, because Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a Mafioso and former Teamsters vice president from New Jersey, heard about the plot. Allen claimed that Hoffa had intended to get other gangsters to kill Provenzano and thus "put everybody in line in the Teamsters...
...York City charity ward. A forceps delivery severed a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started her own business, a workout salon. The family exercise, however...