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DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
There Belushi blossomed into an archangel of the grotesque. His face-round and blandly menacing in repose, like a middle-level Mafioso's-could contort into semblances of slashing samurai, killer bees, Joe Cocker or Marlon Brando. Belushi's body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic...
Interviewed by TIME, Silverman said that if they seemed relevant to his investigation, he would seek access to court-sealed FBI tapes of conversations by a Schiavone subcontractor, William Masselli, a convicted hijacker and alleged Mafioso. TIME has learned that federal court records, as well as undercover operations, provide evidence of a close relationship between Masselli and Louis Sanzo, the union boss who allegedly pocketed $2,000 in Schiavone funds at a restaurant in New York while Donovan looked on. Until now the Justice Department has maintained that no evidence links Sanzo with Masselli. But Masselli has appeared in court...
...Last Mafioso, Demaris...
...Last Mafioso, Demaris...