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The Mafia in Popular Culture

From Al Capone and Vito Corleone to John Gotti and Tony Soprano, real-life and fictional mafiosos have captured the public imagination since the 1920s. Ruthless and violent, these men are nonetheless often seen to maintain their own personal brand of honor and decency. In this way, they are modern-day versions of the outlaw heroes of the Wild West, such as Jesse and Frank James or Billy the Kid. Gangsters were only a tiny percentage of the huge migration of Italians, primarily from the south of Italy, to America in the early 20th century. Still, “The Mafia” has become the primary pop culture expression of the Italian American identity–much to the dismay of many Italian Americans. This is due largely to the enduring influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 Oscar-winning smash hit film “The Godfather” (based on Mario Puzo’s novel) and its reinvention of the gangster movie genre. 

As the era of Prohibition gave way to the Great Depression, the first wave of gangster movies mirrored the growing anger and frustration of many Americans at their worsening economic conditions. In movies like “Little Caesar” (1931) with Edward G. Robinson, “The Public Enemy” (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and “Scarface” (1932) with Paul Muni, the main characters–all Italian Americans, some based on real life mobsters such as Capone–suffered the consequences of their law-breaking, but many audiences still identified with their willingness to go outside the bounds of the traditional system to make a living. After 1942, gangsters largely disappeared from the screen, as Nazis and monsters took the place of mobsters as Hollywood’s preferred villains. This began to change after 1950, when a Senate committee set up to investigate organized crime began holding public hearings. Thanks to the new medium of television, millions of Americans watched the testimony of real-life mobsters like Frank Costello (or more accurately, they watched Costello’s shaky hands–the only part of him shown by the camera). In the early 1960s, Joseph Valachi, a soldier in the Luciano “family” organization, took a starring role in later televised hearings. It was Valachi who introduced the now-famous Mafia euphemism “La Cosa Nostra” (Our Thing), and his testimony revealed the evolution of Italian-American organized crime in America, especially in New York. “The Valachi Papers,” a book by Peter Maas, came out in 1969, the same year as the novel that would do more than any other to establish the mythology of the mafia in popular culture: Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather.” 

Puzo’s novel tells the story of Sicilian immigrant Vito Corleone and the family and “business” he built in New York, including the struggles of his son Michael, who will succeed him as the new “Don.” Paramount Pictures bought the film rights to the novel, and studio head Robert Evans turned to the young Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola to direct. (Coppola also co-wrote the screenplay, with Puzo.) With Marlon Brando (Don Corleone) and Al Pacino (Michael) leading a stellar cast, “The Godfather” gave a fuller, more authentic and more sympathetic glimpse into the Italian-American experience than had been seen on screen before, even as it framed that glimpse through the lens of organized crime. It also painted an undeniably romantic portrait of the mafioso as a man of contradiction, who was ruthless toward his enemy but devoted to his family and friends above all else. Unlike previous gangster films, “The Godfather” looked at the Mafia from the inside out, instead of taking the perspective of law enforcement or of “regular” society. In this way, “The Godfather” reinvented the gangster movie, just as it would influence all those that came after it. “The Godfather, Part II” (1974) was darker and more violent than the first film, but both were box office smashes and multiple Oscar winners. (“The Godfather, Part III,” released 16 years after “Part II,” failed to impress critics or audiences.) Over the next three decades, Hollywood never lost its fascination with the Mafia. A partial list of related films includes dramas like “The Untouchables” (1987), “Donnie Brasco” (1997) and especially Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990), which showed the underside of “The Godfather's romantic vision of Mafia life. Mafiosos also made their way into comedies: “Prizzi’s Honor” (1985), “Married to the Mob” (1988), “My Blue Heaven” (1990) and “Analyze This” (1999). From animated films to children’s cartoons, video games to “gangsta”-style hip-hop or rap music, the myth of the Mafia was everywhere, thanks in large part to the enduring legacy of “The Godfather.” On TV, of course, mobsters turned up regularly on crime shows like “NYPD Blue” and “Law and Order.” In 1999, however, came the debut of a cable TV show featuring a mafioso like none ever seen before. 

In Tony Soprano, David Chase, the creator of the HBO series “The Sopranos” and an Italian American from New Jersey, managed to create a new kind of gangster. Chase moved the action from the traditional urban environment to the New Jersey suburbs, where Tony (James Gandolfini) visits a psychiatrist to deal with the stresses of work and family (including wife Carmela, mother Livia and two teenage kids). In the world of “The Sopranos,” gangsters like Tony are simply trying to achieve the same kind of affluent lifestyle as their fellow suburbanites, all while struggling with a sense that something is missing, that things aren’t like what they used to be. “The Sopranos” ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2004, won more than 20 Emmy Awards and was hailed by some critics as the greatest show in TV history. In acknowledgement of Chase’s debt to other works of Mafia-related popular culture, the series continually referenced those works, including “Public Enemy,” “Goodfellas” and, especially, “The Godfather.” 

Like “The Godfather,” one of the most impressive aspects of “The Sopranos” was its richly detailed portrait of first- and second-generation Italian Americans, as seen through the experience of one extended family. The fact that both of those families were Mob families, however, means that many Italian Americans had mixed feelings toward these works. In 1970, the Italian American Civil Rights League held a rally to stop production of “The Godfather.” As for “The Sopranos,” the National Italian American Foundation has railed against the show as an offensive caricature, while organizers of New York City’s Columbus Day Parade refused to permit “Sopranos” cast members to march in the parade for several years running. Though pop culture’s fascination with the Mafia has undeniably fueled certain negative stereotypes about Italian Americans, acclaimed works like “The Godfather,” “Goodfellas,” and “The Sopranos” have also given many Italian Americans a sense of shared identity and experience. Despite its controversial nature, the myth of the Mafia–as created and nurtured by “The Godfather” and its many pop culture descendants–continues to enthrall the masses of Italian and non-Italians alike. 

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There are moments in the histories of organized criminal enterprises which drag their operations into the light for the public to see. For the American Mafia, this arguably occurred on the grandest scale in 1963, when former member Joseph Valachi testified to the inner workings of the mob during televised hearings before a congressional committee. For outlaw motorcycle gangs operating in New…

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Um membro da máfia Americana, Joseph Valachi cumpre pena de prisão e aceita ser testemunha especializada num importante julgamento de mafiosos filmado para a TV. Perante as câmaras, desvenda a história da sua vida: desde a sua infância aos primeiros encontros com membros veteranos da máfia, culminando com o seu casamento com a filha do próprio padrinho assassinado. Quando Joe Valachi vê a sua cabeça a prémio posta por Don Vito Genovese, não lhe restam senão medidas desesperadas para se proteger enquanto está na prisão. Uma tentativa mal sucedida de lhe cortarem a garganta coloca-o à beira de quebrar o código de silêncio.

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Prosecutions began, and several gunmen went to the electric chair. In 1940 Buchalter was convicted, but before Anastasia could be brought to trial, Reles’ usefulness ended. He had been lodged in Coney Island’s Half Moon Hotel, guarded by 18 policemen in three shifts round the clock. Nevertheless, on the morning of Nov. 12, 1941, he fell from a window to his death. The official verdict was that, while alone, he had tried to escape and accidentally fell. But an informer of a later day, Joseph Valachi, would suggest, “I never met anybody who thought Abe went out that window because he wanted to.” (at Gaetano's Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3xBW-p3MD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Preview- The Valachi Papers (Limited Edition Bluray)

Preview- The Valachi Papers (Limited Edition Bluray)

Based on the disclosures of mobster Joe Valachi, as recounted in Peter Maas’ best-selling biography and at a sensational congressional hearing, The Valachi Papers tells the story of one man’s brutal journey through the ranks of the Cosa Nostra, and a betrayal that would reveal the secrets of the Mob to the world. Terence Young (From Russia with Love) skilfully renders the clandestine world of…

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Do you take inspiration for your female protags from anything? How you write them, or little quirks to their personality etc?? I love them so much!

Oh gosh. So much. Thank you anon you have my first born baby lol

I think we all put a bit of ourselves in our characters. There is a bit of myself in all of them when it comes to my personality and attitudes towards my place in life. But the time period in general is the biggest inspiration. Just to pick two protagonists, Patience is a struggling working woman with internalized beliefs that she should settle down as a woman would, and Rosannah has been beaten down and cowed by every single man in her life, and was expected to be an rural mountain housewife submitting to her husband before she snapped. As far as relationships, Patience panicks a lot more due to her personality while Rosannah deals with more easily due to her background. They are both corralled in by evil men and they deal with it in different ways.

Directly, Patience is inspired by a number of historical figures including Joseph Valachi, Virginia Hill and Betty Tocco. Rosannah is inspired by Missouri outlaw Sharon Kinne and one other figure.

Like I said before, I write them according to their personalities and place in the world. Their quirks creep in from the side--Rosannah and her stress from the death of her daughter, Patience's love of Mark Twain she got from her parents--even Anya and her turbulent relationships from her own father which colors her romantic entanglement, and which extends to her complex with snakes. If this sounds cliched, I like to write them as people. With regrets from their pasts, hobbies and loves and aspirations, just as we all have. Anyone you could meet on the street.

Thank you again, this ask really made me think lol

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Former Genovese Family soldier turned government witness Joseph Valachi talks about growing up in East Harlem back in the day on the same block as future Genovese Family heavyweights Francisco Costiglia AKA Frank Costello & Willie Moretti AKA Willie Moore. (at Greenpoint, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B88IuolAO01/?igshid=11cyo8deowjti

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<b>Crypto's</b> Valachi Papers

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Fear City Trailer Shows How the Cops Bugged the New York Mafia to Life Sentences

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As police forces across the country are held under tighter scrutiny for crimes against the people they swore to serve, Netflix will feature a previous victory law enforcement can brag about. The three-part series, which premieres July 22, presents the prosecution’s case for the Mafia takedown in New York City during the 1970s.

“Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, the ‘Five Families’ of the New York mafia—Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Luccese—held a powerful, and seemingly insurmountable, grip on the city,” according to the official synopsis. Directed by award-winning documentarian Sam Hobkinson, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia details “the incredible story of the history-making organized crime investigation and subsequent prosecution case brought against New York’s most formidable mob bosses.”

Fear City was created by the RAW and Brillstein Entertainment, the same production companies which made the docuseries Don’t F*ck With Cats. The documentary series includes interviews with dozens of law enforcement officials like then-District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the inventor of the perp walk, ex-mafia associates like John Alite, as well as journalists, jurists, and the evening news reports of the time. It will also include previously unheard surveillance recordings and reenactments.

According to a press release, “The documentary series “sheds light on how the mafia’s control of unions, high-rise construction, and other industries netted billions for organized crime… to paint a shocking and captivating portrait of this ‘Golden Era of the Mob.’” 

Fear City follows the FBI’s concerted effort to take down all five families at the same time by interpreting the RICO statutes in a novel way. The trailer is shown from the vantage point of the investigative team and includes a tawdry subject which could possibly have had the case looked at on appeal. “Oh my God, he was having a torrid affair with his maid,” a federal officer says, referring to surveillance tapes they probably could have turned off.

You can watch the trailer here:

Much of what happened in 1970s New York was okayed by organized crime. Besides gambling, hijacks, loansharking, and all the usual vices, mobsters moved into legitimate businesses, like construction, the longshoremen, the garment district, and the fish market. The authorities took them down by tying them together.

The “Five Families” goes back to the days of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931, who headed one organization alongside the Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families.  During the time of Fear City, it was the Bonnano, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families. None of this would have been known if Joseph Valachi, a member of the Genovese crime family, didn’t testify in 1963. By the 1980s, federal agents got as organized as organized crime.Fear City: New York vs The Mafia premieres on July 22 on Netflix.

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Regarding your brilliant advice that nobody cooperate with the Democrats!

Joseph diGenova, Esq. diGenova & Toensing, LLP 1776 K Street NW Suite 737 Washington DC 20006 (via email) March 5, 2019 Dear Mr. diGenova, I'm a YUUGE supporter of President Donald Trump who has watched your erudite appearances on Fox News many times. Like you, I am disgusted and outraged about what is happening to our president, and the victimization he's suffering at the hands of dastardly Democrats. Last night on one of the news shows, I heard you recommend that every one of the 81 recipients of the House Judiciary Committee's most recent requests for information should adamantly refuse to cooperate. And when Congress subpoenas them as a result, they all should go in and plead the Fifth Amendment. That way, the Democrats will get NOTHING! That's a brilliant idea, sir! In Italian-American circles the concept is known as "omerta," and it served certain practitioners well for generations. In fact, if Joe Valachi had simply followed your advice when Sen. McClellan subpoenaed him in 1963, America might never have learned of the existence of the Mafia. And if members of the Gambino crime family had stuck together and told the government to go pound sand in the late 80s and early 90s, John Gotti would be walking free on the streets of New York today. Thank you for suggesting that political and business associates of President Trump follow the Mafia code, too. It speaks volumes about the nature of our president and those closest to them. It also speaks volumes about you! Sincerely, Arthur Mofodopoulis 709 Shady Hill Road Apalachin NY 13732

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Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904– April 3, 1971) was a low-level American mobster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia too, in 1963, acknowledge its existence publicly. He has been credited with the popularization of the term Cosa nostra. https://www.instagram.com/p/CiDWj5ALN80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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JOSEPH VALACHI TESTIFIES

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What can you tell us about Salvatore and Leo’s relationship to the omerta?

Omerta is nothing anymore since the Valachi Hearings. Even bosses have turned rat. Joseph Bonnano (who FOUNDED the Bonanno family) wrote a god damn autobiography. So you can be sure that the code of secrecy was only a very serious, big thing during the first half of the 20th century.

End of Omerta is considered to have started with the Valachi hearings in 1963, so it was still firmly entrenched in the mafia world previous to that--however, 1959 is not far from 1963, and cracks are beginning to show.

Salvatore has an old-school mentality (drug use nonwithstanding) so he probably adheres to it very strictly, keeps tight-lipped to law enforcement, etc. He was raised very traditionally and sees it as intrinsic not to be a "rat", not to talk to cops, to uphold the code, etc.

Leonardo is very mercenary so although he also obeys it and has probably heavily internalized its facets, I can see him being more flexible about following it if the going got too rough. He executed Carlo Varetti due a violation of omerta--however, that was strictly for show, and an excuse to get rid of him for the Seventh Heaven debacle, as it was already well-known that he was in the mob. I would say he obeys it, but if push comes to shove and he was in a very bad position, might abandon it.

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Booklet cover for Twilight Time's Blu-ray release of The Valachi Papers (1972). Adapted from Peter Maas’ best-seller, The Valachi Papers tells the true story of Mafia informant Joseph Valachi, superbly incarnated here by Charles Bronson. A low-level gangster associated with the Genovese crime family, Valachi moves from punk to full-fledged gangster over the course of the brutal narrative, handsomely directed by Terence Young. Also starring the great Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, and Joseph Wiseman, and featuring an effective score from Riz Ortolani. Released June 14, 2017. #bluraymovies #twilighttimemovies #twilighttimebluray #twilighttime #twilight_time #twilighttimeart #twilighttimedvd #screenarchives #blurayart #bluraycover #bluraycollector #bluray #moviesofthe70s #films #movies #charlesbronson #charlesbronsonmovies #mafiamovies #terenceyoung #linoventura #movie #josephwiseman #jillireland #thevalachipapers #itsnotanoldmovieifyouhaventseenit #classicmovies #classicmoviestars