In all the years of speculation about Frank Sinatra’s Mafia links, this coincidence of origin has remained unknown. Other new information makes it very likely that the Sinatras and the Lucanias knew each other. The two families lived on the same short street, the Via Margherita di Savoia, ...
Gianni Russo, who played Carlo Rizzi in the film, claimed to have Mafia ties and used those connections to secure his role. According to his 2020 memoir, "Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob," Russo associated with Colombo, Frank Costello of the Luciano crime family and...
Tributes will invariably focus, first and foremost, on Liotta’sGoodfellasturn, and with good reason—this side of James Cagney, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino (as well as his co-stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci), no one is more closely associated with the mafia genre than the Newark, ...
Three years later, he played Frank Sinatra in the HBO telefilm The Rat Pack. Ray Liotta and Kevin Costner in 1989’s ‘Field of Dreams’ Courtesy of Everett When he was cast as the vengeful husband in Something Wild— he was tipped about the job because an acting classmate, Steven ...
In the mid-’60s, Jones established a working relationship with Frank Sinatra. He arranged a pair of albums teaming the vocalist with Count Basie’s orchestra, “It Might as Well Be Swing” (1964) and the live “Sinatra at the Sands” (1966). In 1969, Jones began a profitable associatio...
James Caan's final film is"Fast Charlie,"an upcoming mafia movie starring Pierce Brosnan in the title role, with Morena Baccarin and Morgan Freeman also among the top-billed cast members. The production, directed by Philip Noyce, is based on a novel entitled "Gun Monkeys" from the author ...
Byline: BILLY SLOANTHE Beverly Hills party was in full swing - John Wayne propped up the bar, while Steve McQueen charmed the ladies and Frank Sinatra ente... - THE RAT PACK UNPLUGGED; Dino's Daughter on Her Life with the Crooner: LEGEND MARTIN WOULD SECRETLY CALL COPS TO BREAK UP PART...
Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches" through to Sid Vicious' "My Way" over the closing credits, with Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," the Rolling Stones' "Monkey Man," Donovan's "Atlantis" and Nilsson's "Jump Into the Fire" commenting on the story of Henry Hill's tenure in the Mafia...
“Mafia Inc”) and the questionable Cardinal Tremblay (John Lithgow). There’s also a dark horse candidate, Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz), whose existence was a mystery until the start of the conclave. Reasons for the mystery are made clear later but won’t be stated here bec...
Fontane is a struggling singer and actor who, after the horse slaughter, gets the part in Woltz's film and goes on to win an Oscar. Sinatra allegedly used his Mafia ties to shake down Hollywood producers for parts. One of his targets was said to have been Harry Cohn, producer of the ...