On November 30th, 1947 David Alan Mamet was born in Chicago. Known for having an avid imagination and a natural knack for storytelling, throughout his childhood he was known to keep a pen and paper close and even professed to his mother that one day he would eventually become a famous writer. When he was […]
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Al Pacino stars in the last two movies of all time in Scarface and The Pacinos. interesting, too. Al Pacino’s top ten personal quotes cover his best thoughts on money, movies, and other actors. I particularly like the one from Stars of the Choir. I mean how can you top Tony Montana ballroom dance? What […]
It’s not easy to choose the top ten mafia movies, given how many films have been made about the subject. From Coppola’s The Godfather, usually ranked as one of the ten top movies of all time, mafia or not, to movies in recent years which have given us the good, bad and ugly of organized […]
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Each type of archetype has a special type for a specific type. This is especially true of the Gangster genre. Popular in the 1930s, this genre is about impatience. A “hero” is a man who wants everything, but does not want to go through the normal ways. The typical gangster in these stories has no […]