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Sunday, 24 March 2013

SURPRISE, ITS THE MOB WIVES


Mummy what has Daddy got in his violin case?




Mob families are grabbing hot air time like nobody's business these days. I guess everyone likes to hear what it was like when the FBI came through the windows to grab daddy (or more likely when he broke the news that he was a rat and was putting his family into witness protection). Earlier this month Ricki Lake wheeled out the kids of famed mobsters for a strikingly original take on mob family values. "He may have been a cold-blooded psycho killer but  I was always Daddy's little princess" or "We ate pizza and chopped up the bodies together". On this episode she digs deep to find the little known quartet of Karen Gravano (Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Ramona Rizzo (Benjamin "Lefty" "Two Guns" Rizzo), Linda Scarpo (Gregory "the Killing Machine" Scarpo), and Michael Franzese (John "Sonny" Franzese).

Friday, 8 March 2013

INSIDE THE GANGSTER CODE

Ex-Gambino hood fronts TV prison gang doc


A must watch new TV series on Discovery. Lou Ferrante is inside the gangster code. Former Gambino crime family member Lou Ferrante served his time, read some books, became a born again Jew, and has now wised-up that the real money is in being a media mobster, writing books, advising on movie scripts etc. If he's making less that he was on the streets at least the only people trying to take it away from him are the IRS. He stars in a new documentary series investigating prison gangs around the world. This, of course, is the bollocks. First episode and he's hanging with some heavily inked bad muthafuckers who run their own jail in El Salvador where life comes cheap. Ever the stand up guy at one point Lou gets really outraged when they film a snitch who is getting let off 23 murders. Ultimately he seems to get their respect (everyone likes a Gambino) and comes across as a real dude and not some fake-ass actor like Danny Dyer. Watch it now, watch it here and here.

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