Word: mafioso
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Usually assigned to play custom-tailored Manhattan executives, O'Neal appears in Stiletto as an elegantly sadistic New York detective named Baker, who is obsessively dedicated to the proposition that Mafioso Emilio Matteo (Wiseman) must be destroyed. O'Neal turns treacherous and vicious with gusto. Wiseman, his eyes dead cold, his face frozen into a mask of menace, looks like a Krafft-Ebing case history...
...single film can tell the whole story of an organization as stark as Sicily and as Byzantine as the stock market. Instead, The Brotherhood concentrates on the microcosmic death struggles of a single Mafioso family. Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas) is the son of a deceased "soldier" of Murder Inc. days. Like his father, Frank still kills in the same old way, ordering a stool pigeon shot in a New Jersey dump, then stuffing his mouth with a symbolic canary. But Frank's college-educated brother Vince (Alex Cord) has acquired new credit cards of identity...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
Marie meets up with Spider, a Sunday-school-tongued, sweet-guy Mafioso whose aim in life is to do good by negative actions. Spider halts the installation of Muzak broadcasting in the subways by threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...
...about for a paisan whose image and reputation were untouchable, the year-old American-Italian Anti-Defamation League reached into the pack and pulled out Frank Sinatra, 51, to be its national chairman in a campaign to convince the nation that not everyone of Italian descent is a capo mafioso. "It is an honor," said Frank in Miami Beach, where he is shooting a gangster flick called Tony Rome. "To me, any type of discrimination is anti-American...