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Organized Crime on Page and Screen
Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture. Other powerful organized crime groups appearing in popular media include the Neapolitan Camorra and Mexican drug cartels. This book takes a close look at all these examples of organized crime by examining the different ways these organizations and their members have been portrayed in many of our most popular novels, movies, and TV series, and how the gangster figure has evolved from its earliest depictions in a trio of Hollywood films in the 1930s up to the present day.
Pinter's Odd Man Out
"Pinter's Odd Man Out records Sidney Homan's experience directing the playwright's Old Times for both stage and television. His most commercially successful play, and surely one of his best, no other work of Pinter's has generated more critical and scholarly commentary - or more varied, sometimes conflicting readings." "In the two opening chapters Homan surveys the theatrical and critical history of the play before describing the "generic" world of Pinter that provides the context of Old Times: secluded rooms, their occupants, and the visitor who, in seeking entrance, challenges the room's exclusive yet deceptive serenity; the outside and the threat it poses; the subtext pressing on the dial...
Laban Stafford, His Ancestors and Descendants
William Stafford (b. ca. 1606) immigrated from England to Plymouth, and later moved to Virginia. Descendants spread from the coastal states of the east to the mid-western states.
The Life and Family of Rev. Joshua Sweet, Episcopal Clergyman
Joshua Sweet was born in 1722/23 in East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. He married Susanna Nichols. They had two children. He died before 28 September 1748 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Reverend Joshua Sweet (1812-1874) is believed to be the great grandson of Joshua and Susanna. He was born in Ogdensburg, New York. He married Julia Ann Berry (1827-1865) 28 May 1848. They had four children. He married Jeannette E. Sykes DeCamp, a widow and mother of five children, in 1866. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and California.
