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...everyone watching the parade yesterday was Irish, it appeared that at least every cop on duty there was just a generation removed from carrying a shillelagh instead of a night-stick. But if the Town of Southie has any laws concerning the public consumption of alcohol, they were not enforced by those men in blue wearing green carnations. Many of the reddest noses were found in places like Tom English's Cottage and Chauncey's pub, establishments packed to the rafters with old, freckle-faced ale-lovers and smiling lassies and laddies ordering up Heinekens because they like the color...
When Carlo Gambino died last October at 74, practically every cop, crook and crime reporter in the country wondered who would replace him as the new capo di tutti capi, the boss of all bosses -in other words, the Godfather. Last week, a rash of stories in the New York press-the Times, the Daily News and New York magazine-crowned a new Godfather: longtime Racketeer Carmine Galante...
...seemed to matter which side they were on. These types even had their own special language, and Marlowe was a professor of it. He never stopped being a loner, but it always helped to know that next day would bring another hood to trade insults with and another city cop to poke...
...Shot Cop...
...very edifying trip. Winner and Co-Writer Jeffrey Konvitz go through subplots as if they were exploring the New York subway system: as soon as one begins to get them somewhere, they change to another line. One of the more promising involves Eli Wallach as a cigar-chomping cop who sees Raines' lover as a latter-day Bluebeard...