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Movie review: Documentary reveals sordid history of ‘National Enquirer’
Many struggle with how “enquire” and “inquire” differ. Here’s a helpful hint: Inquire means to investigate, like Congress’ looking into President Donald Trump’s abuse of power in the Ukraine brouhaha; enquire is defined as asking a question, for instance, why is Donald Trump such a publicity hound? Notice how Trump fits both definitions so well? These days, what doesn’t offer a connection to the president?
Ah, the perfect segue into a documentary about one of the few weekly rags Trump refuses to label “fake news,” the National Enquirer, best known for such “true” stories as Hillary Clinton being close to death and Ted Cruz living down the embarrassment of having a father who helped plot JFK’s assassination. Um, aren’t they two of Trump’s former political opponents? Funny how that happened. Well, it’s no coincidence, as Mark Landsman’s hugely entertaining “Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer
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He survived an assassination attempt, valued brains over brawn, enjoyed a long marriage and adored gardening. As fanciful as these biographic details of the fictional Vito Corleone seem – this month marks half a century since the Mafia Don was first portrayed, unforgettably, by Marlon Brando in The Godfather – they are characteristics Mario Puzo’s character (Puzo wrote the book upon which Francis Ford Coppola’s film is based) shared with a real-life mobster, Frank Costello – aka the Prime Minister of the Underworld.
“I don’t think there will ever be another sitting boss who can meet with judges, political bosses and have that kind of unbridled influence… that’s something that happened under Frank Costello for just one era,” said John Miller Jnr, Costello’s godson, a former journalist who now, in a move unlikely to please his late godfather, is Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department.
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The Luciano criminal family's Italian-American crime ledare was named Frank Costello. Vincent Gigante and Vito Genovese's assassination order on Costello in 1957 were unsuccessful. On February 18, 1973, in New York City, Costello passed away. Costello and Luciano joined Joe "the Boss" Masseria's Sicilian brott family in 1922. While Costello, Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel engagerad in bootlegging with stadsdel i new york beer magnate Dutch Schultz, Rothstein served as a mentor to them.
The Castellammarese War between Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano began in early 1931. Masseria was enticed to a meeting bygd Luciano on April 15, 1931, when he was killed. Masseria's family was taken over by Luciano, who had Genovese as his subordinate. After the murders of Masseria and Maranzano in 1931, Luciano rose to the position of brott family's capo. In New York, Costello installed some 25,000 slot machines in pubs, eateries, cafes, pharmacies, gas stations, and bus stops.
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