Friday,
August 24,
"American Gangster" Chronicles
Black Mobsters Siezing Power from Italians -Time
Magazine
The
ANNOTICO Report
While
the Italians get all the credit for ALL Illlicit
activity, fueled by "The Godfather" , ...the reality was that during
the 15 year Vietnam War (1959-1975), Harlem revolutionized the heroin
trade by importing it directly from
American Gangster
Time
Magazine
By
Richard Corlis
Friday,
Aug. 24, 2007
To
Be Released November. 2; directed by Ridley Scott
Gangster movies
come in vivid spurts, like machine-gun fire. In the early '30s, hard guys like
James Cagney,
American
Gangster,
due out Nov. 2, is the real-life microcosm of that story. Frank Lucas
(Denzel Washington) was a Harlem drug lord who, in the
Director
Ridley Scott and scriptwriter Steven Zaillian (who
last collaborated on
The movie surely
has another motive. The three stars and Zaillian are
all Academy Award winners, as is producer Brian Grazer (for A Beautiful Mind
), and Scott helmed Gladiator to a Best Picture statuette. So
all involved are hoping that Gangster's guns will still be blazing
on Oscar night.
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