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My Top 10 gangster movies : The Godfather (1972)

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 2 Feb 25

I put this classic no where near the top of the ten as I feel it's more pastiche of what Italian mobsters are like from the old country than reality. Oscar winning Marlon Brando was so narked he had to audition for the film he...

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No Remorse

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 11 Aug 21

And now, a musical book post. I've been listening to the audiobook Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and The Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra by Phil "Crazy Phil" Leonetti. What's the music...

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Book Review Edward Behr Prohibition Thirteen Years That Changed America

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Sep 19

1996 – Arcade Press In 1920, under pressure from the Christian Right, temperance movements and others, North America went dry, with a total legal ban on alcohol. Of course, it was the jazz age of bathtub gin, speakeasies,...

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You Tube Top Ten: Mafia, The Godfather of Lusitania (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 30 Dec 18

My brother just sent me a text and said Turner Classic is showing a Bogart double feature: The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. I told him that is the stuff dreams are made of! I'll mosey into the living room...

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Money Laundering

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Nov 18

Story inspired by @xander6464 writing about laundry day. Hello, operator, could you patch me through to Alfonzo Capone please? Oh hi Al, it's Arthur, from the new laundrette on Chicago High Street. Your money is ready. We...

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Will Pope get Mafia? Or ISIS? Or State?

yugocean @yugocean (9963) • India 18 Sep 18

Pope Francis has appealed to Sicilon mafia to abandon crime and violence; however his words are odds- “A person who is a mafioso does not live as a Christian because with his life he blasphemes against the name of God” Not...

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One Countdown

Albena Ivanova @WriterAI (5373) • Bulgaria 14 Sep 18

Hello, MyLotters! I was offline very long time. Although I wished to write many posts on myLot during August 2018 I didn’t succeed. I was busy with one national cause. I would like to inform all of the areas of the world...

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Gone until tomorrow night

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 6 Jun 18

At about noon today, I'll leave again for Portland, have and early dinner/snack with my daughter at about 4 PM, then, at 7 PM will be at a rather palatial home in Tualatin to film three short scenes. This is my Mafia boss role for...

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Can I play a Mafioso in a movie?

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 9 Jan 18

I don't look like what people think of when they see a person of Italian or Sicilian. But, there are blue-eyed people in that part of the world. A local film director has asked me to play the part of an American Mafia "Don" or...

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Two Stories On The Theme Of The Wrong Luggage

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Feb 17

We often see movies in which characters accidentally end up with the wrong suitcase and get into various adventures as they evade or pursue the owners of the other luggage. I decided to create a story on this theme and ended up...

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Plotting a future...away from the Mafia

Genipher @Genipher (5405) • United States 14 May 16

When we moved to our rental, oh so many years ago, I was looking forward to starting a garden. I wanted plenty of home-grown veggies that I could harvest and can in preparation for the upcoming zombie apocalypse. You know how it...

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The Go Between

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 22 Jan 16

I am reading this novel called The Go Between about the Kennedy Years by Frederick Turner. A down and out newspaper man found himself with some diaries that belonged to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. She was around...

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What is the mafia ...?

srisahara @srisahara (4508) • Indonesia 12 Nov 15

In my country almost all economic sectors played by mafia. According to some information on local television, mafia networks are very difficult to eradicate because they actually play behind the government officials. In your...

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You May Not Kiss the Bride

lady Di @lady1993 (27221) • Philippines 13 Dec 12

About a photographer who gets forced to marry a Croatian bride whose family are gangsters.. it was quite funny, it did have it's super funny moments, but near the end i kind of got bored with it. i just loved Katherine MacPhee...

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Anyone Would Think The FIL Was Head Of The Mafia Or Something...

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 1 Jul 12

..the way he interferes in our lives. Yesterday was a good example. There me and John were in the middle of a packed Morrison's supermarket, doing our food shopping and his Dad rang him on his mobile whilst we were next to...

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Pacquiao vs. Bradley: Mafia won!

neelia_lyn @neelia_lyn (2003) • Philippines 10 Jun 12

It's really bad that Pacquiao got defeated but he'll always be the Champ. Bradley said he'll shock the world and he did (even got a shock himself) with the help of the Mafia and corrupt judges. I hope Pacquiao won't say yes to a...

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I just finished the SOPRANOS!

wydtron @wydtron (302) • Portugal 25 Nov 11

I just finished the sopranos and im still thinking about the end, because i still don't know if i like it or not. I try to imagine a person that watched the sopranos since 1999 to 2007 and watched that ending, it must have been...

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Famous Quote by Mario Puzo

paid2u @paid2u (4) • Malaysia 9 Oct 11

Hey Buddies, i am a big fan of Mario Puzo.. Lets share what can you gain from reading his novels..

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Godfather....

ethanonthemoon @ethanonthemoon (1494) • Quezon, Philippines 8 Oct 11

I recently watched Godfather... you know the Mafia film of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, etc. I liked it. I think that film would be listed in my top ten of my favorite movies of all time. The series of events...

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Whitey Bulger

bostonphil @bostonphil (4459) • United States 24 Jun 11

Well, I am surprised that no one on mylot has yet started a discussion about the capture of Whitey Bulger. I grew up in a working class neighborhood of Boston that had a heavy Jewish and Italian Mafia presence. The Irish Mafia...

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