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Cherry Hill, Los Angeles, Studio City
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In "Alto Knights," Robert De Niro Plays Two Mafia Gangsters Battling One Another

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By Michael Sragow Verified
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In The Alto Knights, director Barry Levinson and his stars, Robert De Niro (as Frank Costello) and Robert De Niro (as Vito Genovese), trace the rise and fall of the real-life postwar Mafia with the speed, humor, and panache that director Raoul Walsh and his stars, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, brought to the rise and fall of fictional pre-war gangsters in The Roaring Twenties (1939). Once again, close allies end up at homicidal loggerheads.
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This Collection of Celebrity Profiles From the 60s and 70s Is as Thrilling as Ever

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By Michael Sragow Verified
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READ What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Ezra Pound said, “Literature is news that stays news.” In editor Alex Belth’s scintillating collection What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?, headline-making profiles from the 60s and 70s retain their freshness and excitement. In a salute to the last freewheeling era of American culture and magazines, reporters Rex Reed and Brad Darrach gain unsupervised access to an unbuttoned Ava Gardner and Robert Mitchum. Thomas B.
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Anti-Semitism on Film

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By Michael Sragow Verified, Rob Long, Andrew Roberts
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Alfred Dreyfus and Edgardo Mortara, bothborn in the 1850s, became targets of anti-Semitic institutions (the French army of the Third Republic) and regimes (the Papal States of Italy). Their fates ignited debates in the era’s mass medium—newspapers—that shaped public opinion and ramped up pressure on political antagonists in France and Italy, and around the world.
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