By Jerry Pearce Let’s be clear: “Magnum Force” (1973) is not only my favorite of the “Dirty Harry” film series, but also stands next to films like “The Seven-Ups” and “The French Connection” as my favorite of all police films ever to come out of Hollywood. But who knows? If things had gone the way […]
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The Sinatra File: Cops, Lawyers, and Godfathers… The Movie Roles Francis Albert Turned Down or Were Cast with Another Actor
June 14th, 2017 
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June 12th, 2017 CEO By Jerry Pearce An enthusiastic “thank you” came from James Darren when we took a picture together at the Chiller Theater convention held at the Morristown Sheraton in May of 2015. The thanks was in response to my telling him how much I enjoyed his two albums of standards music that he had released in […]
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June 10th, 2017 CEO By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt Adam West, the man behind the bat mask in the campy 1960’s TV version of Batman has died at the age of 88. West, who become part of pop culture after Batman debuted in January 1966, only to see his career fall victim to typecasting after the ABC show flamed out, […]
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June 9th, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry Mario Puzo, a New York City native with bad eyesight who grew up poor in a rough neighborhood, wanted to be James Joyce, the Irish novelist and short story writer whose poetic use of language and deep insight into human nature have forever solidified his status as a literary titan. Instead, with […]
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June 8th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar The early story of Stephanie St. Clair, aka Madame Queenie, life is a mystery. One thing we know for sure is she was born on the French east Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe on December 24, 1897. She was educated and could not only read and write, but spoke fluent French as well […]
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June 7th, 2017 CEO By Jerry Pearce Sinatra fanatics will most likely notice that the title of this week’s edition of “The Sinatra File” takes its name from the well-known second track of Frank’s 1984 (and final solo) album “L.A. Is My Lady,” a swingin, stompin’ arrangement by then-current musical director Joe Parnello of a song written by Fred […]
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June 4th, 2017 CEO Here is an interesting article about President Donald Trump and Mafia Legend, the late Lucky Luciano. Read HERE.
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May 31st, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar John Gotti has been a controversial figure in the mob world since he stepped on the scene. Known for his vitality and brazen attitude, John Gotti was (and still is) loved, hated, respected and loathed. It’s hard to have a conversation about La Cosa Nostra and not include the name Gotti. To […]
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May 31st, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry The made-up city name “Lost Wages” used to appear on postcards for sale in Las Vegas, showing a hapless tourist stranded in the desert — a camera around his neck, as I recall, and wearing Bermuda shorts — with his front pants pockets forlornly pulled out like rabbit ears, indicating he gambled […]
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May 29th, 2017 CEO Slots have been around since 1895 when Charles Fey invented the Liberty Bell machine. You may have heard of the one arm bandit whose reels spun after a long lever was pulled and this was how slots games were enjoyed for a long time. However, slots have come a long way since then. In 1994, […]
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May 27th, 2017 CEO John Travolta, the Oscar nominated actor has wrapped on The Life and Death of John Gotti. Read HERE. Win an autographed copy of Mike Tyson’s autobiography “UNDISPUTED TRUTH” by clicking HERE and subscribing to be entered to win this great prize along with any future ones!
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May 26th, 2017 CEO By Jerry Pearce Hello fellow Sinatra lovers, and welcome to another (long overdue) edition of the column. In today’s market, if you blink, you’ll probably miss some important item on the music market. Artists of the present day are churning out so much material between physical compact discs and digital downloads that it may be […]
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May 25th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar “His eyes had no color… as if his soul was transparent”. — A characterization from a news reporter about Dellacroce. “Dellacroce was one of the scariest individuals I’ve ever met in my life. Dellacroce’s eyes were like he didn’t have any eyes. Did you ever see ‘Children of the Damed?’ His eyes […]
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May 23rd, 2017 CEO If you love nature, fun, and adventure, you will find it all in New Jersey. After all, there is a lot more to the place apart from betfair casino and gambling. There are many amazing things to do and see in New Jersey, which is famous for its gambling oasis, Atlantic City. Entertainment is nonstop […]
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May 22nd, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry “Stayin’ Alive.” That Bee Gee’s disco song could have been the anthem — or at least the goal — of the mob hitmen and car-bombing killers at war in Kansas City in the 1970s. Much of the mayhem was centered on a now-defunct but then-lucrative downtown entertainment district, the River Quay (pronounced […]
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May 22nd, 2017 CEO Posted in BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tags: Gotti: Amazing Scene with Acting by Anthony Quinn & Armand Assante Comments Off on Gotti: Amazing Scene with Acting by Anthony Quinn & Armand AssanteBenjamin “Bugsy” Siegel: A Closer Look at The Hollywood Gangster
May 20th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar The glitz and glam of Hollywood is hard to resist. This was particularly true for mobster Benjamin Siegel known as “Bugsy.” The notorious and iconic mobster was born on February 28, 1906 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York. In his youth, Siegel was known as a street thug and rose through the ranks […]
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May 18th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was […]
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May 18th, 2017 CEO Posted in BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tags: Nothing Compares 2 U: Chris Cornell Prince Cover Live @ SiriusXM/Lithium (RIP) Comments Off on Nothing Compares 2 U: Chris Cornell Prince Cover Live @ SiriusXM/Lithium (RIP)The Mafia Chronicles: The Mean Streets of George V. Higgins
May 17th, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry Writing about the “Crimetown” podcast series on Providence, Rhode Island, last week brought to my mind the writer George V. Higgins. Higgins, a New England journalist and lawyer who once worked in Providence — he died in 1999 — is one of the great novelists in American literature, known nowadays by too […]
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May 14th, 2017 CEO By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt Character actor Powers Boothe who appeared in such great movies as Tombstone, Sin City, the original Red Dawn (not the horrible remake) and many others died in his sleep of natural causes at the age of 68. His role of Curly Bill, in Tombstone, is beloved by millions of movie fans […]
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May 10th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar The CIA and the Mafia have more in common than meets the eye. Both enjoy working in the dark and a legal status which operates above the law. According to declassified documents, the CIA at one point planned to use the mob to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro for $150,000! Documents detail […]
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May 9th, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry Providence, Rhode Island. Not a place some people might think to put on a short list of the most corrupt, mobbed-up cities in American Mafia history. New York definitely would go on the list, as would Boston and Philadelphia. Chicago would be there, and so would Detroit and Milwaukee and Kansas City. […]
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May 9th, 2017 CEO By Marla Eggar As everyone may know Frank Costello was known as “The Prime Minister of the Underworld”. Despite retiring from the mob, he still retained power and influence in New York’s mafia and remained prominent throughout his final years. Mob bosses and old associates such as Carlo Gambino and Meyer Lansky still held Costello […]
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May 5th, 2017 CEO By Larry Henry All these years later, nobody knows who blew up Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s Cadillac, injuring him with his to-go order of ribs outside the Tony Roma’s restaurant in old mobbed-up Las Vegas. His former lawyer, gin-swilling Oscar Goodman, who flamboyantly later served as Las Vegas mayor sometimes with showgirls at his side and […]
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