Word: saviano
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...Cannes Film Festival, the film is only now making its way stateside. Garrone has presented a documentary as a visceral and brutally realistic drama, chronicling the life and times of Southern Italy’s infamous underworld. Fittingly, the film’s origins are not without controversy: Roberto Saviano, the author of the original novel “Gomorra,” had a contract put on his head by the Camorra and currently lives under the Italian government’s police protection.Garrone takes us inside five fictionalized stories of ordinary people whose lives and professions are attached...
...Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, called Gomorra in Italy and based on the best-selling exposé by Roberto Saviano, is probably the bleakest, least sentimental study of the Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family, there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. There's also no Mr. Big, Dr. No or Don Corleone stroking a house cat and intoning gritty or pearly aphorisms. The movie stays at street level, showing the lower- and middle-rung employees enmeshed...
...Saviano is a journalist and author of the book Gomorrah, an exposé of Mob activity in Naples. He now lives under police protection
...Roberto Saviano used to cruise around Naples on his Vespa for material that would one day fill his book about the criminal underworld. His anonymity provided ample cover as he trolled for tips and frequented murder scenes. "Over time, my face became known," the 28-year-old writes in Gomorra, a riveting account of the Naples Mob. "[But] in territory under surveillance every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime...
Name: Paul Pfeiffer (“The Wonder Years”; Josh Saviano)School: FAS Activities: Studied law, according to childhood friend Kevin Arnold. Years after starting college, he was “still allergic to everything.” Year of Graduation: 1978 If Only Real Life Were So Kind: After “The Wonder Years” ended, Josh Saviano, the actor who played Paul, graduated from Yale in 1998 and is now a paralegal at a New York City law firm...