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...public got an inkling of the Lansky legend from the character Hyman Roth in The Godfather, Part II. Anna Strasberg, widow of Lee Strasberg, who played Roth, recalled listening in on a phone conversation her husband received shortly after the movie opened in 1974. "You did good," said the caller, who did not give his name. "Now why couldn't you have made me more sympathetic...
BOOKS Deflating the underworld legend of Meyer Lansky...
BARTON FINK. The work of two gifted brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing), this was the first film ever to accomplish the hat trick at the Cannes festival -- Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The Coens revise the legend of innocent talent corrupted by Hollywood...
...doubt. A dedicated weight lifter who bulked up from 125 lbs. to more than 200 lbs. in college, he rises at dawn and begins each day with a workout, sometimes following along with a video called Buns of Steel. (Robinson's exercise routine has become the stuff of legend. Business Week reported three years ago that he did 300 sit- ups each morning; FORTUNE said at least 600 in a 1989 story; Vanity Fair put the number last year...
...need not pay too much attention to other candidates. Irish legend has it that St. Brendan and some monks reached the New World in a coracle, and one particularly choice theory holds that a Cherokee inscription in a burial mound at Bat Creek in Tennessee, found in 1889, was actually in Hebrew, left by Jewish refugees fleeing Roman persecution in the 2nd century. Others hold out for Japanese fishermen blown off across the Pacific in 3000 B.C., and (most recently) an unknown Spanish mariner who supposedly reached the Bahamas in the 15th century, struggled back across the Atlantic and entrusted...