Word: mafioso
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...when all was said and done, Harvard was victorious in all of its games with Yale on Saturday. Yale never even had a chance in three of the games, and the only game in which it was competitive was due more to Mafioso tactics than soccer skill...
...Voice, reveals that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment (he won't comment but hasn't disputed Barrett's account), this has been one lousy year so far--which may have moved Hillary to offer him some kind words last week. "Anyone feels empathy toward...
...name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about the exact provenance of the Twistelli name, but in letters to fans he admitted that Twist was the inspiration for his snarling mafioso character. Never mind that Twistelli bears little resemblance to Twist; if the judgment stands, McFarlane's Image Comics imprint could be forced out of business. "I thought that law was sort of short for logic," said McFarlane. "That just got blown out of the water...
...brother Michael, the youngest of the Corleone children, decides to involve himself in the “family business” and prepares for a dangerous meeting, a step that invokes both pride and caution in his older brothers. Several of the Corleones have pressured Michael to join their mafioso life. Anticipating a bloodbath, Michael is ambivalent about his choice...
...Insider (Why not call it Smoke?) has Al Pacino (as 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman) pointing and shouting like an aging mafioso. But Pacino is one of the good guys. The real gangsters are tobacco barons in Louisville, Ky., and network lawyers in New York City. They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way. Otherwise they'll crush you. Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (played by Michael Gambon) has a manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into...