Why be a gangster if you can't act like a gangster?
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"If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," he said.
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It is "The Gangster We Are All Looking For," not "The Gangster We Are Looking For."
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Sip a cocktail at former gangster fave The Ohio Club or tour The Gangster Museum of America.
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I will come at you like a gangster—just kidding, I'm not a gangster, I have two degrees.
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What I know, you can't just deal drugs to be a gangster; you can do other things to be a gangster.
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That's the most gangster thing you can do aside from being a mother, which is even more gangster than a love-alutionary.
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To these gangster warlords, life has become a video game or gangster movie where every pop culture cliche has come to pass.
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" His love of the gangster genre — even the deep cuts — definitely shaped the film "I was really into not just American gangster films, and not just Scorsese films, which is what most people thought of as gangster films back then.
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Pompeo pushed back on the accusations, saying, "If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster" and saying that progress was made during the talks.
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Redoine was raised in a housing estate in Creil, Northern Paris, where he was inspired by stories about the French gangster Jacques Mesrine and gangster films like Scarface.
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"When you talk about clowns, knuckleheads, it's unfortunate that still in the gangster rap world that that's what you're dealing with -- the gangster lifestyle if you will," Bratton said.
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When he hears about a gangster cornered by the police, he will stand in the line of fire yelling, "Stop shooting!" until the officers allow the gangster to surrender.
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According to him, when the children do get weed, it's "often" from "a gangster behind some apartment building" or "a criminal in a stairwell" or even both: "a gangster in a stairwell".
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"If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," Pompeo said, referring to United Nations resolutions that imposed sanctions on North Korea and demanded the country end its nuclear program.
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Shotgun is the son of a notorious gangster named Shadow.
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BAYONNE Vinny Pastore and Gangster Squad, music and comedy. Feb.
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Quazarz: Robed in Rareness & Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
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Looking to channel the sultry Grace Faraday of Gangster Squad?
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I love that whole late 80s, early 90s gangster rap.
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My best selling mixtape was a gangster rap mixtape, actually.
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And AMC offers a pair of Martin Scorsese gangster movies.
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He is an investor in the Spiritual Gangster clothing company.
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And gangster, they end in jail or get beat up.
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"You are literally like a little gangster thug," Jones said.
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"We're facing a crown prince who's gone 'full gangster,' " Sen.
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A notorious French gangster has managed to escape prison again.
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Like, I don't have to do bounce or gangster rap?
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The actress had a minor role in "Gangster Squad" (2013).
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He is... the most gangster guy in the tenth grade.
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Gangster group in "Eastern Promises" RUSSIAN MOB Russian dressing 51A.
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He cursed the gangster life that he'd grown up in.
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It reminded him of Japanese gangster movies in the '60s.
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Everyone is exasperated with a truly irritating little gangster state.
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Henry Hill in "Goodfellas" always wanted to be a gangster.
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"She was a gangster — just a hoofer, period," she said.
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"It was cool to be a gangster," Ms. Gravano said.
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" Marco Rubio called him both a "thug" and a "gangster.
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Mafia II does not attempt to glamorize the gangster life.
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If Lamar represents the superego of Los Angeles gangster rap, YG (short for Young Gangster)—a party-minded hustler, reporting from Compton's front lines while navigating a tangle of foes—represents its modern-day id.
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Pompeo brushed aside the comments Sunday, saying "if those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," and noting that the UN Security Council has been clear on what North Korea needs to achieve.
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I didn't know all of those gangster guys were different people.
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Some of the gangster-statesmen are straight out of Bollywood films.
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Cathy Durant just might be the real gangster of this story.
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A wanna-be Gangster gets what's coming when working an ATM!
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Hugging and kissing are rarely innocent acts in a gangster movie.
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It's gangster rap with accordions, the soundtrack to the narco lifestyle.
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And as soon as I read that this gangster was nice?
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He might have been a gangster, but we never saw that.
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"We're facing a crown prince who's gone 'full gangster,' " Johnson said.
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His other films include "The Crow" (1994) and "American Gangster" (2007).
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"It's very gangster to wear a silk shirt," Mr. O'Shea said.
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Ewan McGregor plays a gangster in the film called Black Mask.
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Then the 2014 indictment against the Broadway Gangster Crips went down.
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Episode 4We open on a funeral for a fallen Irish gangster.
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You could see a country just go gangster on these guys.
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Imagine, for a moment, having a married gangster under your thumb.
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The truth just keeps getting whacked by this gangster White House.
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" One should not under any circumstances call him "an Albanian gangster.
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Vladimir Putin's Russia is a gangster shadow of Stalin's Soviet Union.
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Not a gangster, because he retains no membership in a gang.
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Those gangster-movie touches have come with a decidedly Atlantan twist.
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So, you're not ready to give up the gangster life yet?
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I knew what gangster was, but I knew this was different.
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"If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," Pompeo said, noting that numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions have demanded that the North rid itself of nuclear weapons and end its ballistic missile program.
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Nick Spicher said "gangster" instead of "gangsta," and it cost him $3,200.
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After they clean up, we put on American Gangster and lounge around.
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Two years later, they dazzled us again in crime thriller Gangster Squad.
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The two previously starred together in Crazy, Stupid, Love and American Gangster.
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"They said he was a gangster," she says, gesturing at the room.
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Jerry Wooters in Gangster Squad, another glorified mannequin for Gosling's stylish threads.
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His father was a Gambino family soldier known as Fat the Gangster.
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The caller turns out to be notorious gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).
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North Korea was furious, accusing the US of a "gangster-like" attitude.
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He was a fighter, he was a gangster, ended up in jail.
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" Again at the center is an ambivalent gangster, this time Ezekiel "E.
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As for the gangsta/gangster mix-up, he agreed with the judges.
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I'm getting into this Berliner Arab gangster drama "4 Blocks," on Amazon.
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Mr. Palminteri is currently performing in the cast as the gangster, Sonny.
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Tattoos, with their connotation of gangster culture, are frowned upon in Japan.
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"Bugsy Malone," a Prohibition-era gangster musical starring a cast of children.
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And soon they find themselves inside a nearby brothel with a gangster.
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But like all great gangster chronicles, it's really about anxiety and loss.
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A couple of the Gangster Disciples hustled over to check him out.
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Pick up the gun and the double-cup, and I'm a gangster.
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Henry Hill he is not—he wasn't born to be a gangster.
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Michael Benson: No one remembers a time when Carmine wasn't a gangster.
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"Giuliani, of all people, the way I understand it, he used The RICO Act to go after gangster families, and so it's unusual that he now is representing this gangster first family, if you will," De Niro says.
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" — Mike Pompeo, U.S. secretary of state "And so if those requests were 'gangster-like,'" Pompeo added, "then the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the U.N. Security Council about what needs to be achieved.
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City police alone are too weak against the firepower of the gangster militias.
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"Gangster" and "Hustler" aren't usually labels that one would place on Rupert Grint.
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He was also nominated as part of the ensemble cast of American Gangster.
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" Activist Cornel West called Trump a "neofascist gangster" who has "got to go.
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He's a member of a gangster rap group known as the Crazy Family.
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Hennessey is poured and all the gangster heads are sitting around the table.
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How did you feel about the transition from party rap to gangster rap?
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He often feels gangster lifestyles are glorified on screen and in popular art.
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The global superpower had begun to look (and act) like a gangster state.
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Shyne then shoots Danger to keep the aptly-named gangster from killing Giuliana.
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I didn't know what gangster rap was; I didn't know anything about grunge.
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Don Draper is the best ad man, Nucky Thompson is the best gangster.
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Leto's crazy-gangster version of the Joker is all intensity and no flavor.
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I think we all know Bell is a lot more gangster than that.
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The collision of growth and margin is the gangster cocktail of value creation.
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In the language of gangster narratives, he reads more as legend than monster.
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I'm a dirty south goon — damn right I ain't no West Coast gangster.
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"The Kitchen" often feels like you're watching a parody of a gangster movie.
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The issue of violence is not a random by-product of gangster culture.
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The Kefauver group from Washington hauled in every top gangster, including Johnny Rosselli.
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So for a day, each was a gangster with a heart of gold.
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And "Wùlu" tells a gangster tale against the backdrop of Mali's military coup.
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PADDY WHACKED: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster, by T.J. English.
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Is there a modern-day gangster legend in New York like Pistol Pete?
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Even an obscure journalist like me had a gangster or two stalking him.
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In Bollywood, the gangster always gets redemption before the closing credits start rolling.
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Leave it to Martin Scorsese to find another way into the gangster epic.
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N.W.A made "Straight Outta Compton," but you did West Coast gangster rap first.
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Some communist, some gangster, some civil rights agitator, or avowedly militant antiwar radical.
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The story is simple: In Incheon, South Korea, a cop hunts a gangster.
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Even for a former gangster, the treatments are not to be taken lightly.
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Rewind Rags-to-riches gangster films flooded the market in the early 1930s.
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Nixon was bad, but nothing compared to Michael Cohen's portrayal of "gangster" Trump.
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He's also now one Luke Cage creator-executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker has repeatedly compared to The Godfather's Michael Corleone, who refused the pull of the gangster dark side before becoming the embodiment of the mass-murdering gangster dark side.
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Gangster rap replaced the heavy metal soundtrack for Salvadoran gang members in Los Angeles.
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There's a kind of surface-level understanding of him as just a hardcore gangster.
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Many credit Sanchez with the popularization of narcocorrido music, singing tales of gangster infamy.
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" Zophres previously worked with Gosling and Stone on 2013's crime thriller "Gangster Squad.
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He last stepped behind the camera for the 2016 gangster film Live By Night.
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"Having a gun now is like having a time bomb," the Japanese gangster said.
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In the cartoon, Harley Quinn was portrayed as sort of a 40s gangster moll.
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The author knows that readers of gangster novels like to be shocked and disoriented.
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But, but, but: Not every Trump-is-a-studio-gangster trade worked out well.
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Jihadism and petty crime were so intertwined that some used the term "gangster Islam".
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Cut to "big-shot gangster," whose name is Dryden Vos, played by Paul Bettany.
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But like the hug of a gangster, her friendly message also contains a threat.
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Guatemala. The gangster was renting his white Isuzu dump truck to the mayor for
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Their sound—contemporary, crepuscular G-funk—draws heavily from the LA gangster rap canon.
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His drug trafficking using coffins served as a main plot point for American Gangster.
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On Wednesday the same newspaper called Pompeo "harsh and unreasonable" with a "gangster style".
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Hair too long, or too short—this guy must be some kind of gangster.
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A VHS copy of the fictional gangster flick Angels with Filthy Souls might help.
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"That's gangster... she's badass for that," the singer said when asked about the backlash.
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He's just a ruthless gangster who exercises lethal power without being affected by it.
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He was soon denounced as a gangster by Colombia's justice minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla.
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Then a gangster named Thomas "Fatty" Walsh was killed, and the ghost stories began.
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Carpe stream — NetflixNetflix, the original gangster, has the largest budget and the best technology.
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You can listen to Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star here and Quazarz vs.
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How aware were they of their gangster image and its correlation with record sales?
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Steve AngelloIsn't this the guy who wrote the song about the gangster of love?
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What's up with Angels with Filthy Souls, that insane gangster movie-within-a-movie?
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He is known for his gangster pictures; he is a grandmaster of the profane.
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But if anyone has the savvy to shift from doorman to gangster, it's him.
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He was a really major gangster in the mid part of the 20th century.
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Mr. Rezaj stars in the film "Albanian Gangster," which is making the festival rounds.
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Who are some of the more notorious gangster warlords you cover in the book?
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These pop-culture depictions glorify the gangster lifestyle and its man-of-honor ethos.
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But when six characters in gangster suits rushed toward Mr. Shepard, he started punching.
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The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental?
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"I was kind of the O.G. of striking out," he said, meaning original gangster.
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His early producing tenure was marked by hits ("Sherlock Holmes") and misses ("Gangster Squad").
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Whereas in 'Goodfellas,' the first line is, 'I always wanted to be a gangster.
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Around her neck, she wears a gold necklace that says "Mezcalifornian," in gangster script.
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CHICAGO — The young men who call themselves Gangster Disciples skirted by an empty lot.
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He was Jacques Mesrine in a four-hour saga about the fabled French gangster.
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He infused familiar coming-of-age and gangster-movie tropes with a rare authenticity.
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The gangster movies were one of the first really popular genres in that era.
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Someone proposed it to me because of rap, like gangster rap and all that.
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His gangster uncle, who briefly worked for Safe Streets, was one who succumbed to temptation.
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Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin.
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Then there's the "Sky's The Limit" music video, which swapped out gangsters for gangster rappers.
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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. pic.twitter.
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"It's the gangster excitement that fits into their sense of needing to belong," he says.
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Investors have determined that Trump is either a great deal maker or a studio gangster.
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Brandt's deeply reported accounts have since lured Martin Scorsese to make a new gangster flick.
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Raiola, the niece of New York gangster Salvatore "Sally Dogs" Lombardi, died two weeks later.
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The main villain is the gangster Wilson Fisk, or "Kingpin" (played magnificently by Vincent d'Onofrio).
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Is a documented member of the Gangster Disciples," he claimed in a tweet, adding "Mr.
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Watch: After UK's 'digital gangster' report on Facebook, is the stock too risky to touch?
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But gangster movies don't stop at Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather.
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Prisons became "24/7 gang meetings", one gangster told José Miguel Cruz, a political scientist.
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In one tweet, he suggested Manafort was being treated worse than American gangster Al Capone.
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"He never met an honest-to-God gangster," said Puzo's oldest son, Tony Puzo, 72.
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"The European Union has very limited instruments for dealing with gangster member states," he said.
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Cottonmouth is gangster supreme in Harlem, and is clearly as dangerous as he is charismatic.
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"I know my man is a gangster," Diaz said as Masvidal laughed and pointed cageside.
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This allowed Bulger to flourish despite committing murder as he supplied information on other gangster.
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I just winged it, but luckily I had been watching a lot of gangster movies.
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Until a few years ago, that's the kind of offer a gangster might have made.
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But the gangster gait cannot be mitigated: getting rid of that will take a generation.
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On the other hand, GARP, GANGSTER and TITO, among others, drew from the last century.
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Mario Van Peebles tackled the gangster genre in the endlessly quotable New Jack City (1991).
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"This clearly shows that the U.S. is a felonious and lawless gangster state," he said.
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As soon as Hollywood casting directors met Mr. Bologna, they saw him as a gangster.
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" As Valladares was leaving, "He said, 'I'm having this black gangster guy come over later.
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Every time we see him, he slips my son some cash, like a slick gangster.
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I'm into British series, and right now that means "Peaky Blinders," a thrilling gangster drama.
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Whatever the truth, a Gangster Disciple whipped out a pistol and opened fire, witnesses said.
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The dynamic is emblematic of the show's strong female roles, a rarity in gangster dramas.
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I'm a gangster because I help out the community and I look out for the youth.
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I want to see a gangster movie with Miles Davis, a heist movie with Miles Davis.
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The actors — who also costarred in 2013's Gangster Squad — have started strong this award season.
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A friend of O'Day's told Page Six that Vanessa "went gangster" on O'Day at the time.
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We watched... okay, we watched the trailer for Gangster Squad and decided to pass, but still!
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When a teenage gangster puts a gun to Luke's head in episode 2, he seems irritated.
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Related credits — "gangster" (61 percent black), "gangbanger" (60 percent), and "thug" (66 percent) — drew similar results.
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" He told Rubio he wasn't "going to silence me" and called him "a little gangster thug.
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Gosling, 36, has starred in three films opposite Stone, including Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad.
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The gangster half has some enjoyable aspects, like Ray Romano expertly playing Zak's discomfort around Galasso.
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A gangster going by the nickname 'Big Spender' abducted the son of a Hong Kong magnate.
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This is gangster rap as agit-pop, and a reminder that it was never anything but.
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" In the words of a certain TV gangster, after all, "What use is an unloaded gun?
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If every star is a gangster, then the children are going to want to be gangsters.
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GANGSTER WARLORDS: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America, by Ioan Grillo.
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You got to worry about the average everyday looking citizen now, because a gangster got felonies.
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But hours later, I was no longer just a casual dabbler in all things Spiritual Gangster.
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Weeks after the summit meeting, North Korea accused the United States of making "gangster-like" demands.
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"Some 30 years before, as a child, I'd set out to become a gangster," he writes.
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" Sure enough, the Oxford English Dictionary defines gangster as "a member of a criminal gang, esp.
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Like the classic westerns and gangster stories it draws from, it can be crude and violent.
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"I met a lad there who wasn't a gangster, but had some good connections," says Chris.
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Notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead at a West Virginia prison on Tuesday.
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In his cell, he has a poster of the Al Pacino movie gangster he's named after.
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Salerno typified a more old-fashioned gangster ethic that frowned on flamboyance that might attract attention.
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One day they told him how they saw him: arrogant, standoffish, still cloaked in gangster swagger.
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"Remember that gangster politics is not part of our political culture," Salleh said in a statement.
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North's Foreign Ministry accused the United States of making "gangster-like" demands for its unilateral disarmament.
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The president has even imported gangster vernacular like "rat" and "slime ball" into the Oval Office.
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For as long as there have been gangster movies, there have been slang terms for money.
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But few can match the pure gangster—and enduring street clout—of Carmine "The Snake" Persico.
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Vinny Vella -- who starred in "Casino" and several other gangster movies -- has died after battling cancer.
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"You got these so-called hardcore felon, gangster, murderers, robbers, thieves all pumped off Shakespeare," Brooks said.
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North&aposs Foreign Ministry accused the United States of making "gangster-like" demands for its unilateral disarmament.
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They gave him a special room at the Hotel Nacional, which was owned by [gangster] Meyer Lansky.
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Actor Armand Assante (Gotti, American Gangster) portrays Beg, and Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Shrek) provides the narration.
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"He had aspired to be a gangster his entire adult life," Ferland said of Salemme, now 84.
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"504 gangster, New Orleans soldier / bangin' underwater, fuck around and soak ya" is a sick opening couplet.
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The duo previously costarred in 2013's Gangster Squad and the 2011 romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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Why is Dennis Hopper playing King Koopa like he's a bizarro gangster sporting a Gene Simmons tongue?
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" He also described the U.S. president as "a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire.
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Oh, that's going to be interesting, because I'll tell you, the U.K. is going gangster on Facebook.
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Robert De Niro made his big-screen directorial debut in the 1993 gangster flick A Bronx Tale.
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If you make it past 25, you weren't a real thug or you weren't a real gangster.
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Beecher, not realising that Louis used to run the prison, gets into it with our Original Gangster.
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Spiritual Gangster: Save 40 percent off of purchases made site wide, from November 24 through November 303.
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Adopting and embodying one of these narratives — victim or gangster — is part of the formula for success.
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In 1996, he was kidnapped by a notorious gangster before he was freed for a large ransom.
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I grew up watching a lot of gangster and western movies; it's an influence in my playing.
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The former KGB agent heads a gangster government, and Mr. Trump should have stood up to him.
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His fake style is the stuff our gangster grandchildren will be talking about for generations to come.
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Flemmi is the government&aposs star witness and the former partner of notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.
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It could be a really gangster hip-hop song that inspires me to make a house song.
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Although Jimmy showed her gangster movies, he also loved Doctor Zhivago and films by Italian neo-realists.
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Maureen's gangster son, Jimmy, cleans up the mess, but soon regrets rekindling the relationship with his mother.
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Mogilevich wasn't feared because he was the most violent gangster, but because he was reputedly the smartest.
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I'm so gangster with it, besides the 7% tax in Cali, we can do it in Cali.
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He cranes his neck around the gangster and the boy, trying to see what's going on inside.
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Founder Bridget Firtle named Owney's rum after a famed New York rum runner and gangster, Owen Madden.
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"Early Roman Kings," a Chicago-style blues shuffle with thrusts of slide guitar, hurled brutal gangster boasts.
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In January 1965, the body of an inconsequential gangster named Robert Rasmussen was found in Wilmington, Mass.
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North Korea has rejected all of these proposals, considering them "gangster-like," one of the sources said.
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It's also hinted that Aislinn might have been just the kind of girlfriend a gangster could love.
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" He called Trump a "rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.
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It recounts the story of Anthony, a gangster from Nickerson Gardens, a public-housing complex in Watts.
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GANGSTER WARLORDS Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America By Ioan Grillo Illustrated.
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They socialized together, and Johnny was often at the studio advising the mogul on his gangster pictures.
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Especially someone like Tupac, who, in the same breath, is a celebrated dissenter and a hated gangster.
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This isn't the case with Sasan Ghosairi, an Iranian hulk who resembles the legendary gangster Al Capone.
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You get a little bit of everything: it's dark, it's a whole bunch of gangster-type stories.
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Every nigga that came in the game rapping from the West Coast is on some gangster shit.
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In the first week he suggested Manafort is being treated worse than the infamous gangster Al Capone.
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"We got a gangster in the chair now," he said, referring to President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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" But soon after, Pyongyang accused the U.S. of pushing a "unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization.
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Next up is Byrnes's occasional ally of convenience, the Italian-American gangster Paul Kelly (nee Paolo Vaccarelli).
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Its members prey on the mining industry in North Kivu through extortion and other gangster-like behavior.
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"I have this Chicago gangster tape on which the rappers shout out to their homies," he says.
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Dickson recounts that Commissioner Happy Chandler once asked Durocher if he knew the notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel.
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With all the gangster movies he's made, the guy must know how to handle himself by now.
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It tells the story of Calogero, a boy taken under the wing of a gangster named Sonny.
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It's as if the gangster movies I just mentioned had turned into meditations rather than action pictures.
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John Simm, as a British gangster deeply involved in a bromance with Mr. Krause's character, is hilarious.
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Ms. Atthakorn likes the double meaning — "like we're a powerful gangster family," she said, with a laugh.
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Gleason plays a gangster whose Vassar-bound teen-age daughter (Alexandra Hay) joins a caravan of hippies.
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After the insult, the Gangster Disciples left the block, but then returned, and the verbal jabbing continued.
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The group's upcoming album is called Quazars: Born on a Gangster Star and it's out July 14th.
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Season 4 of "Peaky Blinders," the gangster show starring Cillian Murphy and Adrien Brody, comes to Netflix.
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I was a trash-talking gangster granny holding a machine gun on Comedy Central's The Ben Show.
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Afterwards, the North accused the U.S. of using "gangster-like" tactics to put pressure on its government.
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From some angles, Santos looked like a cross-dressing gangster; from others, like a futuristic pop star.
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The group's gangster hierarchy came from the eastern Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, the police said.
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"Samantha" is a track straddling two worlds, its hook speaking to a mix of "gentleman with gangster".
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He also expressed his condolences as part of the settlement, a significant move for a Japanese gangster.
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But I grew up listening to 50 Cent, Ludacris, The Game – the gangster kind of hip-hop.
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In the chronicles of gangster lore, "Scarface" Al Capone is typically recognized as the most infamous mobster ever.
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It's gangster out there, man, it's such a big business because the drinks and these products do work.
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"I'm so happy that I'm cancer-free," Raiola, the niece of a New York gangster, told the camera.
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It's ironic, because him being a gangster, he's complaining, he's picketing the FBI building, which was totally insane.
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Time and again we are told he never wanted to get into the gangster business or kill people.
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Some of Washington's friends in junior high school carried guns, and he flirted with gangster style and speech.
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We had Straight Outta Compton [in 2015], which is a movie about a gangster rap group from Compton.
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The gangster shoots a rocket launcher, bringing the whole building down on top of Luke and his landlady.
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The chief conspirator is an alleged gangster known as "the Bulgarian", who is believed to be in Russia.
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President Obama called him a "thug," as did presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, who added "gangster" for good measure.
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Pompeo told reporters it was not the first time he had been called "gangster-like" by North Korea.
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Some of the options include Elvis and Alice Cooper packages, or the more generic gangster and gladiator themes.
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By allowing $100 in cash to move anonymously you are helping a poor worker and not a gangster.
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North Korea had denounced Pompeo on his previous trip to Pyongyang in July for making "gangster-like demands".
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As her children, 21 and 2300, knew growing up, "I'm the baddest gangster on this block," she said.
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Mo City gave me my gangster mentality because I didn't see none of that shit in Hyde Park.
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North Korea today barked back, threatening nuclear war and blaming the "gangster-like" actions of the Trump administration.
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"My name is Ganesh Gaitonde," he bellows as he takes control of his ghetto from his gangster rivals.
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Over the decades she has swooned for a gangster, a conniving executive and an assortment of feckless playboys.
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It takes the glimmering Los Angeles myth and asks what would happen if a gangster fell for it.
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Pompeo, who when leaving Pyongyang described his meetings as "productive," brushed off the "gangster" comments from North Korea.
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At the church, the lead gangster finds his kid brother in the congregation, holding hands with some broad.
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F. Gary Gray chronicles the rise of the gangster rappers N.W.A in "Straight Outta Compton," now on cable.
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Decades later, the hotel was once again catapulted into the spotlight when notorious gangster Al Capone checked in.
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Not that I've done a lot of drugs in my life, but they make for gangster metaphors, no?
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With his blocky, heavily shadowed head, closely cropped hair and pugnacious gaze, he looks like a Hollywood gangster.
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I have a vague recollection of being called gangster-like from a visit I took one time previously.
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And after the visit, the North released a statement decrying the Trump administration's "gangster-like" demand for denuclearization.
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As much as any gangster condemned to death in an old black and white movie, Branca wuz framed.
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"Chances of you being a gangster are about as low as finding a virgin in Oshawa," said HFK.
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On Wednesday, Netflix released the first trailer for The Irishman, Scorsese's upcoming gangster movie due out this fall.
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He was this young kid, 19-years-old, who showed talent as a gangster and as a killer.
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After his visit, the North said Mr. Pompeo had engaged in "gangster-like" tactics and made unilateral demands.
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The music he was putting out was straightforward, cliché Detroit gangster rap, and it wasn't taking him anywhere.
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For his employer, he lists "Gangster Disciples"—a meth-trafficking organization with nearly 3,000 members across southeast Georgia.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a prominent gangster in New York during Prohibition.
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Through these conversations, the filmmaker, Matthew A. Brown, started to develop a fictional story about an Albanian gangster.
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"Future Markets" opens with a ruthless energy that would seem appropriate for any vintage, hard-boiled gangster picture.
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" Kim also called Trump a "rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.
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If you are no longer Mayor that 'international gangster in the brown shirt' will be all too glad.
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At one point, a gangster conclave on La Gomera is interrupted by an English-speaking filmmaker scouting locations.
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And the latter, by Martin Scorsese, is a machismo-fueled gangster epic about how life wears you down.
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Lottie (Phoebe Dynevor) wants to use the boys to exact revenge on her gangster boyfriend, Sonny (Ed Westwick).
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On the first day of testimony, Trump said Manafort had been treated worse than 1920s gangster Al Capone.
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Metacritic score: 85 Ash is Purest White is sort of a love story, sort of a gangster story.
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The guy was never a rat, he never spoke to a cop, never deflected from being a gangster.
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Gangster Challenge They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and for the third year running this challenge asks contestants to land their tricks in the very heinous and very forced gangster style that was somewhat fashionable in skateboarding for a few years at the turn of the century.
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Kavanagh's father was a gangster and a convicted drug dealer who was shot to death in Spain in 2014.
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Jones started accusing Rubio of threatening him, called him a "little gangster thug," and more uncomfortable laughter kicked in.
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Crane claimed to have knifed to death Johnny Stompanato, her mother's gangster boyfriend, when he threatened to disfigure her.
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"She want a gangster not a pretty boy" was the caption of one of the photos posted to Instagram.
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But scratch the surface, and it is yet another film that romanticizes a gangster and attempts to redeem him.
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Mr. Kwek makes sure that nobody seems mean; even the gangster, Baby Bear (Guo Liang), makes some good points.
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The original gangster can't rely on gross margin dollars from Mandalorian action figures, handsets, or paper towels (no flywheel).
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World Class Wreckin Cru, Lonzo [Williams], Egyptian Empire, they started having gangster stuff on the covers of their records.
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Their respective talents recommend them to a local gangster, Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli), who offers them a business opportunity.
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A popular Bollywood actor, Dutt is best-known for his role as a likeable gangster in the Munnabhai films.
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James "Whitey" Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster, was found dead in a federal prison in West Virginia on Tuesday.
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He is a soft-spoken man of gentle demeanor and hardly seems connected by blood to a narco gangster.
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Smith had killed all the previous events and had decided to call it a day after the Gangster Challenge.
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The 29-year-old plays Sonny Castillo, a Cuban gangster who has a club in London called El Flamingo.
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Just last week, a well-known Hong Kong gangster was linked with a $500 million casino ICO in Macau.
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The gangster experienced serious mental deterioration as a result of the untreated disease and was later considered certifiably insane.
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Klaew Thanikul was the gangster hustle but his senior coach, Pairut Lavila, aka "Ajarn Peng", was the boxing muscle.
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She later added a matching white blazer and fedora while surrounded by dozens of '40s era gangster-styled dancers.
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In announcing their "no" votes, some of Ms Rousseff's allies denounced Mr Cunha as a "gangster" and a "thief".
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Ioan Grillo is the author of Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America.
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Cheung Tze-keung — also known as the "Big Spender" — was a gangster who specialized in high-profile ransom kidnappings.
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Do you put this gangster through a flimsy, decorative screen, or introduce his face to a solid oak table?
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The series will feature details about the lives of legendary players like gangster Benny Binion, PokerGo told Business Insider.
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From 1929 to 1930, the Chicago gangster Al Capone served eight months at Eastern State for concealing a weapon.
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The body of 1930s gangster John Dillinger will soon be exhumed, at the request of two of his relatives.
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West Coast war of 1990s gangster rap, which saw the shooting deaths of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
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Yu Cheng (Zhang Yu), a handsome, hollow-cheeked midlevel gangster, is having an affair with his best friend's wife.
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"Outlaw country music is given much more poetic license than gangster rap, and I listen to both," he said.
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Bam!" he told Mark Jacobson for a 21991 New York magazine profile that was a basis for "American Gangster.
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Fuckin' sticking a big gold chain around his neck, speaking like some fuckin' gangster like the other one, Liam.
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Gangster Warlords is a step-up for the writer, documenting a very grim reality that's unfolding in real time.
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The gangster was killed in prison, and his estate has filed a wrongful death claim against the federal government.
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Tommy might have said that he's retiring from his gangster lifestyle, but we don't believe that for a minute.
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Some posit he was an intelligence operative, or a gangster on the run from a shadowy organized crime group.
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I'm not a big gangster or anything, but when I saw the guy, I looked at him and laughed.
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Julian Dennison plays a 13-year-old wannabe gangster who loves hip-hop so much he names his dog Tupac.
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As an American non-gangster, I truly don't know if these are extraordinary circumstances or just What Happens Over There.
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Finally, the Reddit user suggests that the McCallister family's behavior adds weight to the theory the patriarch is a gangster.
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He points to character of Dexter Deshawn from the demo, a gangster kind of character who gives you a job.
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Luke Cage starred Mike Colter as the titular hero with unbreakable skin, who faces down a gangster, Cottonmouth, in Harlem.
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However, Brant's influence constitutes that gangster marriage between soft and hard power, wielding influence in media, publishing, and the arts.
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It closes with a minister who condemns gangster rap lyrics while endorsing Mr. Lamar, followed by a music-video montage.
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A gangster named Dimitri Kadmin (Tahmoh Penikett) is gunning for Ryker, unaware that he's not who he seems to be.
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Frank, famously played by Denzel Washington in the 2007 movie "American Gangster," died in New Jersey, according to his brother.
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Manafort and his team were busy "nipping and tucking" with a goal of ridding the party of its gangster image.
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Secret brotherhoods—the On Leong and Hip Sing among them—fought a war as bloody as any in gangster lore.
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Suburra may deal in traditional gangster movie tropes, but it uses them to tell a story that's modern and universal.
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According to the vendors, the sandwich was intended to be a throwback to St. Paul's "gangster era" of the 1920s.
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Rajinikanth is one of India's most bankable and highest paid actors, with the gangster drama Kabali being his 159th film.
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It reminds you that some people believe in the gangster fairytale more than the people making money from the lie.
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Naz is down the rabbit hole, but he's not himself ready to start a relationship with a full-blown gangster.
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" He described the series as "the latest gangster melodrama to sit at the confluence of 'Les Misérables' and 'The Godfather.
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Only Jeffrey Wright, in the role of the older inmate, Louis, the original gangster of the title, had more scenes.
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Martin Scorsese's latest gangster movie, "The Irishman," is now in theaters and will soon be available through your internet browser.
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Kapoor who becomes a police officer, is foil to Bachchan's character, who becomes a gangster in the city of Mumbai.
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In October, Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was killedin a federal prison in West Virginia where had just been transferred.
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Netflix dropped the first trailer on Wednesday and it looks to be the makings of another epic Scorsese gangster film.
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The only way to get out of our environment was through entertainment, athletics or to be a small-time gangster.
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El escape del siglo, the first installment in a local four-part low-budget gangster series on the big boss.
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On one, "Broadway Gangster Crips" is scrawled in Perico's handwriting, the same seen on the cover of Shit Don't Stop.
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Posting to actually remind myself to buy this Spiritual Gangster t-shirt, since I've wanted it for a year now.
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I saw a gangster they call Lacra when his face got lit up; half of his face is burned now.
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VICE caught up with English about his new book and where El Padrino ranks in the chronicles of gangster lore.
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If you don't respect the fucking gangster of Jinjoo Deville by now, then I really have no words for you.
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He wanted to be associated with the power rappers projected, with the glamour and the girls and the gangster motif.
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It's luckier that in this revival the 1930s gangster and cauliflower enthusiast Arturo Ui will be played by Raúl Esparza.
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He was a whistle-blower who assailed President Vladimir V. Putin in public, accusing him of running a gangster state.
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"There are books like gangster thrillers that have huge body counts, where men just go down like dominoes," she says.
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Think of it as the Al Capone strategy: Prosecutors went after the notorious gangster by charging him with tax evasion.
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Not quite Bonnie and Clyde — too disciplined, too businesslike — but with more than a hint of old Hollywood gangster style.
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By contrast, this early-220s silent gangster drama finds Ozu tipping his hat to the Hollywood pictures of the period.
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It destroyed lives, and it turned a black gangster named Frank Lucas into one of America's most notorious drug kingpins.
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Lee Wolen at Boka restaurant is a veritable vegetable whisperer — the guy who can make carrots exciting is pretty gangster.
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It's luckier that in this revival the 2967s gangster and cauliflower enthusiast Arturo Ui will be played by Raúl Esparza.
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This is when hip-hop was free, when it was really creative, when it didn't have to be gangster rap.
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In the classic 220 film noir "Kiss of Death," she played the wife of a gangster played by Victor Mature.
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The gangster here will be Warby Parker, who will have one of the more successful retail IPOs in recent memory.
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That "Nowhere to Hide" isn't quite like any other cop-and-gangster movie explains why you probably haven't seen it.
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That's more or less what Mr. Affleck is hawking in "Live by Night," a gangster movie set in the 1920s.
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Narcos started as a show about Pablo Escobar, a real-life gangster who outdid even the most outrageous fictional ones.
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Why is it so rare for genres — the biopic, the western, the gangster movie — to veer from the same subjects?
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Martin Scorsese's gangster movie "The Irishman" and Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" followed with 10 nominations each.
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He also suggests his old boss just got caught up with the wrong crowd, and is far from a gangster.
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All the signs pointed to Gram, and Lucious and his gangster associate Shyne pay the young rapper back in blood.
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Amitabh Bachchan made a career out of playing a gangster with a golden heart in films like "Deewaar" and "Agneepath".
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Another is at the side of a gangster who left the gang and has negative things to say about him.
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Last Friday, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff opened a hearing with a satirical parody of Trump's gangster-like conduct.
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But that's the problem: The living relatives are too young to shed much light on the gangster and his times.
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"He is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician," Mr. Kim said.
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Active gangster and member of parliament Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) draws the line at fascism in 'Peaky Blinders' Season 5.
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It is completely pure, and to get it Lisa didn't need to encounter a single drug dealer, gangster or criminal.
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Listen to Kara's episode of 10 Things That Scare Me. Let me just tell you, that was one gangster raccoon.
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Gone was the hustler-made-good narrative that made Jay-Z interesting even as late as 2007's American Gangster.
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If lots of people migrated from war-torn Syria, gangster-plagued Guatemala or chaotic Congo, would they bring mayhem with them?
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Citron's tweet referred to John Gotti, an American gangster who became boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
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I&aposve negotiated with them before, they bob and weave, they delay, then they lance this bellicose rhetoric gangster-like stuff.
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"A straight-up gangster," said one source who had previously dedicated a significant amount of time to trying to destroy McConnell.
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In February, the company bought the worldwide rights to Martin Scorsese's $100 million gangster film The Irishman, announcing a 2019 release.
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The young man to whom the shrine is dedicated is Emanuele Sibillo, the archetype of a new breed of Neapolitan gangster.
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The gangster uses a mortuary to dispose of bodies and Scarfe has kept detailed notes of murder investigations he's covered up.
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Apart from a rebuke of "gangster-like" Mike Pompeo, America's secretary of state, the portrayal of America has softened beyond recognition.
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It has everything you'd expect: deep combat, a thrilling criminal drama, and also a gangster watching a baby, for some reason.
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The cast list — which includes gangster favourites Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel — almost certainly helps too.
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He had a lot of powerful political connections and he was able to able to leverage them in his gangster career.
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Drug lord Frank Lucas, who inspired the 2007 film American Gangster, played by Denzel Washington, has died at 88 years old.
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Then two days later my father got a phone call offering us a fight in [celebrity gangster] Dave Courtney's back garden.
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"People who don't meet me, they think I'm a gangster or in the mafia or something—that I'm scary," he began.
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The film follows the journey of D., a young gangster who loses his older brother to ghetto rivalry in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Characters flirt, give each other the evil eye, and ultimately engage in a gun battle that leaves one iconic gangster dead.
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"He called me a gangster and a defender of delinquency, which is exactly what the government says about us," Silva said.
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Capone was a Prohibition-era gangster whom federal authorities spent years trying to prosecute for serious crimes, including smuggling and murder.
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He pushed back against North Korean claims that the U.S. was acting like a "gangster" in pressuring the country to denuclearize.
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North Korea called the latest discussions with Pompeo "regrettable," and accused the U.S. of being "gangster-like" in pushing for denuclearization.
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"You better worship the ground she walk on 'cause she's got a gangster a– b— that got her back," she said.
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During his research for Gangster Warlords, he found that Jamaican gangs started naming their leaders "Dons" after seeing the Godfather movies.
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We then both wanted tea, but they didn't have that either, so we pulled a gangster move and ordered from Seamless.
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A couple of months later, that quintessential gangsta rap single also found its way onto his 1991 album, O.G. Original Gangster.
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The arrival of Johnny Depp as a ludicrously dressed gangster with an entourage of weirdos does nothing to reverse that position.
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He may have thought he was a big deal, but in the end all he merits is a minor gangster movie.
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The 1935 smash hit " G Men" signaled a departure from the gangster-glorifying films of the earlier part of the decade.
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"A lot of people say they know where I'm at and all that gangster shit," Pilla B writes about the track.
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Both girls shared an unsentimental interest in gangster rap, serial killers, and ruthless men like the former Mafia boss, John Gotti.
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The second season of "Snowfall" wraps up on FX. And "Straight Outta Compton" tells a gangster rap rags-to-riches tale.
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The gangster, Ralph DeMasi, nearly 80, had graciously invited me to the squat Massachusetts house in which he rented a room.
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She could play comic ingénues, as well as prostitutes and gangster molls but made her mark appearing opposite various Warner Bros.
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"The Irishman" is the latest gangster movie from director Martin Scorsese, featuring veteran actors Joe Pesce, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino.
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Instead, the director's gangster epic skipped a wide release by hitting independent theaters on November 1 and Netflix on November 27.
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He was the wisecracking tummler in the rumpled suit, always on the lookout for a car crash or a dead gangster.
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In "The Godfather," Fredo Corleone is the middle, forgotten son; his associates view him as ineffectual, the worst kind of gangster.
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The former gangster-turned-model after a sexy mugshot of him from Stockton Police Department sent Facebook into a collective frenzy?
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"Black Caesar," in particular, is a remake of the 1931 gangster picture "The Public Enemy" transposed to Harlem of the 1970s.
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Questions have also arisen over whether a gangster attended the state-funded event and why this year's invitation list was shredded.
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Because of an Irish gangster named Deegan McGuire (Alex Morf), whom we saw briefly come into contact with Dom episodes ago.
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In October, Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was killed in a federal prison in West Virginia where had just been transferred.
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Director Martin Scorsese said he had tried for years, but ultimately failed, to get the funding to make the gangster film.
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That's when I realized that Mafia II might be to gangster games what Spec Ops: The Line was to military shooters.
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Dorothy's son and husband (whose ear Jeffrey has found) are being held hostage by a psychopathic gangster, Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).
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"Yes" is only one word, but when you're running Paramount at a time when the industry is in serious financial decline and trying to decide whether you're going to release a very long cut of a gangster movie (with an unknown for a leading man) that wasn't really a gangster movie, "yes" is a very expensive word indeed.
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But Hager was from West Virginia, and earned the respect of the Southside gangster by weighing his words carefully before he spoke.
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And he and [Mike] think this is the funniest thing they ever heard and [Mike] says proudly: Yo she be gangster sometimes.
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So a location scout, Aaron Hurvitz, 1613, did his research and tracked down the "American Gangster" stairs in a South Bronx neighborhood.
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Woody Allen's new film Café Society is full of characters to fall in love with: a ruthless gangster named Ben (Corey Stoll).
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North Korea claims the proposals are "gangster-like" and said that it wants economic sanctions lifted first before it would consider denuclearization.
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The most sensational moments of the trial came on August 7th-11th, when "Nalo", a brawny shaven-headed gangster, took the stand.
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It has been hit by two large-scale computer system failures and a scandal involving loans to gangster members over the time.
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This has much more of a gangster / heist flick vibe, with plenty of gunfights, crazy flying, and harrowing escapes along the way.
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Dragon Coin has been supported by a Macau gangster Wan Kuok-koi, nicknamed Broken Tooth, according to documents obtained by the Times.
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If I'm hired to write a gangster story, there'll be something about being a parent that would find its way into it.
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However, the frequent costars — who also appeared together in Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad — almost didn't make it to the screen.
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As rulers of a literal gangster-state, three generations of the Kim dynasty have yearned to be treated as equals by America.
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Hip-hop was — this has been written about a lot by others, not by me — but the music industry pushed gangster rap.
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"Say what you will about Hillary Clinton's email server but it never stuck an ambulance in traffic, you cartoon gangster," Meyers snipped.
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Violence and greed hold the whole system together, and, with Mr Scorsese directing, "Vinyl" cuts striking parallels with his gangster film "Goodfellas".
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Lil Wayne – Jay-Z, American Gangster, 2007 Rap is full of weirdos now, and you have Lil Wayne to thank for it.
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Ms. Jackson (if you're nasty) is executive producing a based-on-a-true-story picture about Prohibition's only female gangster called Queenie.
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In it, Momoa — a muscular and threatening looking gangster-like figure — dons a pair of glasses and an easel and starts painting.
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As the chief villain, Wilson Fisk (Kingpin), Vincent d'Onofrio is superb, bringing a strange vulnerability to the role of a brutal gangster.
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Kim did not meet with Pompeo, and North Korean officials claimed the U.S. was acting like a "gangster" in pushing for denuclearization.
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"The European Union has very limited instruments for dealing with gangster member states," said one expert on the bloc's lavish farming subsidies.
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When Cor was released, he and Sonja settled into a life of gangster splendor, with ostentatious cars and holidays on the Mediterranean.
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Mr. Sollima and his colleagues are certainly aware of the many influences to be sorted through in making a modern gangster tale.
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Snap gave way to minimal, melodic Southern gangster music that still dictates the dominant sound in rap as a whole these days.
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"He's never not showed up for work," explained Betty Davis, the actress who plays gangster moll Egypt the First Lady on 848.
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Imbuing that unsavory character with the dopiest of gangster mannerisms, Mr. Depp may remind you of Matt LeBlanc's "Friends" character, Joey Tribbiani.
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He wanted to be remembered as somebody who was legitimate because he wanted to shake the poor, sort of immigrant, gangster image.
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I asked him: Is it possible that a lifetime of consuming gangster films where heroes die at the end left a flavor?
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When the group officially launched in June 2013, however, it was with a hard style paying homage to old-school gangster rap.
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He stars as Freddie, a seedy lowlife with flashy gangster aspirations and a brutal streak that's upsetting even to his fellow criminals.
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Kim had entered the new year vowing to bolster his nuclear deterrent in the face of "gangster-like" U.S. sanctions and pressure.
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He had put notorious gangster Paul Massey's "Salford Lads" firm in charge of the doors and they'd allegedly started pocketing the takings.
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"All my life I'm this cream puff, and next thing I know everyone sees me as some kind of gangster," he said.
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But heroic fatalism and unwilling villainy remain enduring cinematic tropes, including in gangster movies, even if it means holding convention over complexity.
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Omid Nizami, whom the police described as a gangster stuck in a long bloody feud with a relative, had been shot dead.
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Unlike Anzora, he used to be a gangster, and has tattoos on his arms, chest, and neck that mark him as such.
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Mr. Kaute helpfully includes ancillary photographs of which weapons were in vogue, a definition of gangster argot and a primer on evidence.
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Sassy nail artisans dispense silk wraps while laundering money for a pill mill controlled by a gaudily bisexual gangster named Uncle Daddy.
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As a result, Darrell finally watched Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half hour gangster epic — and he wasn't impressed by the results.
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The smash success of "Public Enemy" (1931), an enormously popular gangster film starring James Cagney, seems only to have increased Wellman's workload.
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The clique worried that the war was about to flare again, said Antwine White, 24, a Gangster Disciple who is called Weedy.
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A Moment in Mexico: Children of the Narco Zone What it's like to grow up as the child of an avowed gangster.
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I think that the gangster move in retail is to invest in organic intelligence as evidenced by what Amazon is doing. Yep.
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Of course, you ... I'm gonna do a lot of heroin about the week before I die, supposedly that's the real gangster drug.
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Mr Barksdale and many of his ex-gangster colleagues cut their teeth during the crack-cocaine binge of the late 20123s and 1990s.
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"Let the authorities spare us their false promises," said one 22-year-old gangster in Ngaba who gave only his first name, Yves.
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Even as he begs his old gangster friend Tom Hagen for mercy, Tessio maintains a stoic poise, befitting a man familiar with death.
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He found level ground in his gangster image and wanted to utilize it as flagrant bait with the hook of truth beneath it.
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In fact, he is a small-time crook who steals from banks and poker games but who doesn't want to be a gangster.
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He had an intense, parochial loyalty to his native turf that would eventually lead to the higher rungs of the American gangster ladder.
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Alienation, gaming culture in South Korea, the flaws of the criminal justice system, girl power, slapstick gangster comedy, and perseverance against the odds.
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The fictional gangster, played with seductive menace by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, is one of the heroes of "Sacred Games", Netflix's flagship Indian drama series.
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But even diehard fans are still learning new tidbits about the Oscar-winning gangster epic four-and-a-half decades after its release.
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Most of Yakuza's more off-beat elements worked because of Kiryu, a lovable gangster with a heart of gold and seemingly superhuman strength.
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Boothby was reportedly openly bisexual, and took part in raucous sex parties attended by notorious London gangster Ronnie Kray, according to MI5 files.
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Most of them are rap-related, but tangentially connected to the world of gangsta rap is the world of Italian-American gangster films.
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An MS-13 gangster may approach a street vendor or a prostitute and threaten to kill them unless they pay weekly "rent" money.
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Turns out he reminds her of that square boyfriend she gave up to get with her gangster boo Lucious back in the day.
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One really big one (La La Land), one really charming one (Crazy, Stupid, Love), and one I don't care to see (Gangster Squad).
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She's been dubbed a "subversive" figure associated with the gangster lifestyle of young Chinese adults, and banned from a social media platform there.
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Amazon's locally produced shows will include a thriller revolving around cricket, a gangster drama and a political satire directed by comedy collective AIB.
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The women are bombshells, the sex is intense, and the gruesome violence features a character played by former real-life gangster 50 Cent.
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In Z-Ro's universe, there is nothing more gangster than being open about all the maddening, devastating shit that life puts you through.
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In "Kabali", he is an ageing gangster, who serves 25 years in a Malaysian jail and returns home in search of his family.
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In Moscow the Kremlin accused Ukraine of illegally attempting to enter Russian waters, and of using "gangster tactics" to deliberately escalate the conflict.
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Legendary Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, a ruthless killer who was also a longtime FBI informant, was savagely murdered in prison on Tuesday.
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This "gleeful fantasia of gangster mayhem," as the New York Times critic Peter Schjeldahl described it, was written and directed by John Milius.
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But the music of late-80s gangster rap luminaries N.W.A., Ice-T, and Toddy Tee wasn't the richest possible realization of Los Angeles.
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But Pompeo brushes it off: Pompeo, who when leaving Pyongyang described his meetings as "productive," brushed off the "gangster" comments from North Korea.
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Fans came for a big-screen experience of Martin Scorsese's gangster epic at the Belasco Theater, ahead of the film's arrival on Netflix.
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"Grand Theft Auto III" gave players the freedom to move around a massive city as a low-level gangster with nearly no restraints.
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The British James calls himself "White Kanye" while Lala repeatedly calls herself "gangster" and defends her "man," so, I mean, you get it.
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Wheatley has a skill for combining disparate genres—from horror to slapstick comedy to murderous gangster drama—while gesturing toward critical political undertones.
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Backed by Mustard's (or a Mustard imitator's) bouncy, skeletal keys, TeeCee's rasping, high-pitched orations explore essential gangster rap tropes: violence, lust, regret.
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He's also by far the luckiest gangster in recent memory, having dodged numerous murder attempts and murder indictments over the past 25 years.
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We was already on some gangster shit, but niggas from LA migrated down here and brought that Crip and Blood shit out here.
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Their interactions with the opposite sex take a turn when Lila, with characteristic verve, stands up to the sons of a local gangster.
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He's clearly given a lot of thought to this strain of detective-gangster fiction, to its cruelty, extremity, pessimism and flashes of nihilism.
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He helped establish the ground rules for entire genres, including the gangster film, the newspaper picture, the screwball comedy and postwar film noir.
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Leisurely and deliberate, intelligent and casually cruel, "Have a Nice Day" is a stone-cold gangster thriller whose violence unfolds in passionless bursts.
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But North Korea later called the Trump administration's behavior "gangster-like," accusing Washington of demanding a "unilateral" denuclearization while offering little in return.
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And "The Irishman," Martin Scorsese's gangster epic, is still being shown on Broadway at the Belasco Theater ahead of its streaming release Wednesday.
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The police not only had to investigate the killing of a gangster, but now had to provide security for the protest as well.
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His songs limn classic Los Angeles gangster rap, but also that city's kinetically inventive progressive independent scene of the early-to-mid-1990s.
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Parnas talked with Maddow during the same week that the gangster flick "The Irishman" was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.
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Yet while Mr. Guzman had many friends embroiled in that dangerous trade, he managed to avoid being lured into the gangster lifestyle himself.
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The first finds the Lyons forced to present a united front against a common enemy: the gangster, producer and potential federal informant, Shyne.
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Kyle Pred, a cadet in the Los Santos Police Department, was talking a gangster out of killing a random hostage in a bank.
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The Game is calling out Tekashi69 ... calling the kid's snitching something a fake ass gangster -- and not a real Blood -- would ever do.
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"You're a rat," a Black Disciple said to one of the Gangster Disciples who he believed had given the police information about him.
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We should tell people this is like a gangster hard-boiled detective with a mystery past, and it's set after a big earthquake.
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But that same month, North Korea accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of making "gangster-like" demands during a visit to Pyongyang.
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He might be an entrepreneur or an actor or perhaps the best gangster rapper LA has produced in a generation, which he is.
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LAST month, Neapolitan anti-mafia investigators announced plans to indict Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, a local gangster, for the killing of a policeman in 1989.
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In 2015, she co-starred in the Brit gangster flick Anti-Social, which also featured Prince Harry's girlfriend and Suits star Meghan Markle. 3.
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And when he comes back to Russia, he comes back to a Russia that's in total chaos: Boris Yeltsin's Russia, with its gangster capitalism.
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At this point, Kool G Rap had the East Coast gangster rap on smash when it came to talking about the real street shit.
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Dressed as what appeared to be a sexy 1930s gangster at Kyle Richards' Halloween party, Kim Richards faced off with Lisa Rinna once again.
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As the hearing continued, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said bin Salman had gone "full gangster," an assertion repeated by another Republican, Senator Ron Johnson.
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"Black Mass," a book on Bulger's rise to power and eventual flight was turned into a 2015 film starring Johnny Depp as the gangster.
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He plays the conflicted gangster in a way that emphasizes how the role, period, was forced upon him by socioeconomic circumstances beyond his control.
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Similar to the early screen Westerns and gangster pictures, the football movies in the first half of the 1900s had common themes and formulas.
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One of the gym's organizers, who goes by Meyer Lanski (a play on the Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky), instructs participants to stand in line.
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Most people in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, just know him as "Lonne"—a pretty incorrigible neighborhood gangster who's spent nearly half of his life in prison.
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"It's another story of ultimate outsiders turned ultimate insiders, which makes it as blissfully American as apple pie, low riders and gangster rap itself."
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Fans of the Yakuza video game series can't purchase the latest game in the gangster-genre franchise thanks to a real-life drug bust.
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In one of the best known, a character who is also called Manto becomes entranced by a Bombay gangster with a heart of gold.
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"Boardwalk Empire" stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, a politician and gangster who runs Atlantic City and deals in the illegal alcohol business.
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He was pushed into the gangster life and forced to run the streets for Mabel until she had him sign away his own soul.
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"I can usually see who the biggest or most dangerous-looking guy out there is, and I call him OG (original gangster)," he said.
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The 64-year-old former dental hygienist and dog groomer fled Boston with Bulger in 1995 and was arrested with the gangster in 2011.
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He needs the protection of a Nigerian gangster, Damian (Babs Olusanmokun), and to pay for that service he has to kill whomever Damian chooses.
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The gangster drama has been shot in Chennai, Bangkok, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and also stars Taiwanese actor Winstan Chao as the principal antagonist.
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Read on for a magician who became a gangster, a felon who became a mayor, and the guy who safely removes snakes from planes.
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Saying you're going to make one of the greatest gangster movies ever made for your first film, well that's kind of a tall order.
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The officer, Henry A. Blanke, said that all the men who attacked the notorious gangster were subsequently whacked, and one was encased in cement.
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According to the article "The Real American Gangster", Lucas was confined to a wheelchair in his final years of life following a car accident.
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So the fight takes on an almost Biblical air, or at least something from a medieval court suspense or a multi-generational gangster drama.
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Stakeout technology One of the most notorious stakeouts in FBI history was created in 1934 to catch Public Enemy No. 1: Gangster John Dillinger.
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"He got me all riled up about life in general, so when I went on the show I was feeling very gangster," she said.
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In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named him public enemy No. 1 — a distinction last bestowed on Al Capone, the notorious gangster, in 1930.
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Critics saw his rejection of traditional gangster rap in favour of emotionally vulnerable verses as lacking the masculinity required to make authentic hip-hop.
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In more recent decades, corridos attracted the prefix "narco," as a subgenre sprang up celebrating the exploits of drug traffickers as gangster anti-heroes.
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The story of the kidnapping plot seemed too amazing to be true, more like something a gangster would do than a high government official.
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Mr Simeone's nickname is "El Cholo", a Spanish term which originally denoted Latin Americans of indigenous heritage, but now is associated with gangster culture.
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REUTERS - In 2014, when a producer came to Arjun Rampal and proposed a movie about gangster Arun Gawli, the actor was a little puzzled.
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It is fine if it is just a gangster, but if it is a true story then you have to be true to it.
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For instance, you could say "show me gangster movies from the 80s," and Siri would then show you a list with all these criteria.
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But the worlds of music, organized crime and high finance collide when the label owner's gangster brother returns from exile to claim his share.
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Capone was a gangster but the government couldn't prove it, so they used the charge of income tax evasion to put him behind bars.
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North Korean officials accused Pompeo of making "gangster-like" demands, but Pompeo said that North Korea had not pushed back in negotiations over denuclearization.
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Narrator: To pay homage to the city's rum roots, Bridget named her rum Owney's after notorious New York rum runner and gangster Owen Madden.
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The more aggressive Monique is a self-defined feminist and "sociopathic hard-core gangster"; Catherine is as taciturn and nearly as awkward as Ellis.
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The statement Saturday from North Korea's foreign ministry said the United States made a "unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization" at the negotiations.
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It belongs to a gangster named Bin (Fan Liao), who wields influence—though less than he believes—in the northern Chinese city of Datong.
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" Choe also blamed the "gangster-like stand of the U.S." REACTION FROM POMPEO: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, "It's not the first time.
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Prosecutors say Williams led a gang of soldiers and airmen at Ramstein Air Force Base called Gangster Disciples, Brothers of the Struggle, or BOS.
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Another former gangster told me all about how he is trying to get to know himself better so that he can make better decisions.
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But when they got out to sea, the third man—someone Rosselli didn't know from Chicago—strangled the 71-year-old gangster to death.
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When Gotti usurped the Gambino crime family throne in the 1980s, he epitomized the type of gangster who succeeded by breaking all the rules.
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Iggy Pop showed up as a gruff gangster type in Driv3r, and Marilyn Manson voiced an alien in the PS20123-era shooter Area 51.
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Non-gangster urbanites may not lend themselves easily to any mythology, but we can wave the flag as hysterically as the next cow poker.
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The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee called Facebook a "digital gangster" — but it's not the only group of regulators out for blood.
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But to find its most iconic food moment, look past the ramen: there's a secondary storyline involving a sexually libertine gangster and his mistress.
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While the other half have foolishly lent credence to his plight because he's somehow become the last of a "dying breed" of gangster rapper.
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The video, laced with prison slang and boorish threats, could have come straight out of "Goodfellas," or maybe a sendup of a gangster movie.
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There are suburban capers, and an extended (kinda awful) journey through a gangster/crime movie tale, and a story where Owen becomes a hawk.
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The flappers appeared in films of the 1920s and '30s, which also often romanticized the gangster lifestyle and shaped enduring characters like Betty Boop.
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"The United States must mull over what repercussions its gangster-like act will entail, and must return our vessel without delay," the ministry said.
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BAYOU CAVIAR Cuba Gooding Jr. directs himself in the role of an ex-boxer roped into a scheme by a Russian gangster (Richard Dreyfuss).
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After witnessing his cousin's decidedly gangster move of covertly planting the gun in another bag, Al is now seeing him in a new light.
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"But actually the kind of Russian gangster one sees in America is more likely to be a fraudster, a hacker or semi-criminal businessman."
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Mr. Gantz called Mr. Bachar the victim of "a planned ambush," and sought to focus outrage on Mr. Netanyahu, likening him to a gangster.
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I would say "We are all Mitt Romney now" after he was scorched by Trump for lashing out at the president's gangster foreign policy.
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At the beginning of Girl/Haji, we know one fact is certain: Saburo Endo, nephew of a powerful Japanese gangster, is dead in London.
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To watch him squander it for a life of playing gangster—smoking pot, buying guns, getting hideous tattoos, rubbing elbows with criminals—is depressing.
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While the North Koreans criticized Pompeo's demands as gangster-like during his last trip, commentary this time was more positive, including from Kim himself.
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Nominated for three Academy Awards, he masterminded the look of pictures as visually diverse as latter-day noir, sanguinary gangster films and music videos.
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The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, is on trial along with other associates for his affiliation with the Nine Trey Gangster Bloods.
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In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, Calogero ends up caught between his loving blue-collar father and the glamorous life of a gangster.
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A digression early in "The Irishman" depicts the headline-grabbing slaying of the gangster Albert Anastasia in a New York hotel barbershop in 1957.
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What eventually convinced him, Ahluwalia said, was that Gawli was a fascinating character and Rampal didn't want to make a typical Indian gangster film.
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For long, Bollywood's gangster movies have romanticised the criminal, portraying him as a man wronged by the system and who turns to crime reluctantly.
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Madness, beauty, sniper, gangster, gigolo, psycho, graffiti, hustle, and pie: tack the word "American" to any hunky noun, and you've got yourself a movie.
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Lavondale Glass, 43, a former Gangster Disciple who was helping to broker peace, saw the young men falling into the dangerous logic of revenge.
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We get the impression that the Wolf is legendary in the gangster underworld of LA for making very bad situations go away, and quickly.
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But after two days of negotiations, North Korea called America's demands "gangster-like" and "regrettable," although it was unclear then what Pompeo's demands were.
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Nipsey Hussle had collaborated with artists including Snoop Dogg and YG, drawing from his city's tradition of gangster rap and intricate street-level storytelling.
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At times, he suggests the embryonic Los Angeles gangster rap of the late 1980s, or even vocal eccentrics like E-40 and Suga Free.
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As evidenced in Garrone's 2008 gangster epic Gomorrah, the director loves a man who can scramble up a drainage pipe, and Fonte doesn't disappoint.
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He was modeling his character Birdie—a gangster involved in youth basketball programs—on a Haiti-born high roller called Jacques "Haitian Jack" Agnant.
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Mann demonstrates his masterfully moody filmmaking in a memorable cat-and-mouse shootout scene as Vincent tracks down a Korean gangster in a nightclub.
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VICE talked to Davis to find out what it was like to become a major gangster in a criminal underworld traditionally dominated by men.
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The travel company based in China is one of a handful that offer tightly marshalled circuits around mostly beautified bits of the impoverished gangster state.
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It doesn't matter if you don't want to dance—even if you're a GANGSTER, if you're going to the Movement festival, you're going to dance.
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Graham also offered an explanation for North Korea&aposs criticisms of U.S. rhetoric as "gangster-like" after a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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In Belgrade, he says, he got to know the infamous paramilitary fighter and gangster Željko Ražnatović, better known as Arkan, who was assassinated in 2001.
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Just recently, Netflix announced that Martin Scorsese's gangster film, "The Irishman," which stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, would skip a wide theatrical run.
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What distinguishes "Daddy" from the many campy gangster films Bollywood has produced is that it at least attempts to try something different within the genre.
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A rich motivational speaker, Sky (Adrian Pang), wants to sell a family apartment to pay the Chinese gangster who has taken over his gambling debt.
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Then, they sizzled in 1949 L.A. as a star-crossed gangster's girlfriend and the police officer tasked with taking said thug down in Gangster Squad.
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It's chatty for a gangster picture, and while Moland's camera movements and framing are fairly non-flashy, the locations occasionally provide an extra comic kick.
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"The Gangster Disciples are a highly organized and ruthless gang that recognizes no geographical boundaries," said Britt Johnson, head of the FBI's Atlanta field office.
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Rappers like Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, and Eminem created a mainstream gangster mentality for black men from tough neighborhoods to the everyday suburban white boy.
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So, when my arms are down I look just like a normie and when my arms are out I look super hardcore, like a gangster.
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The show, which originally aired on City TV in Canada, loosely tells the true story of a Montreal mafia led by infamous gangster, Vito Rizzuto.
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"Romanzo Criminale" (2005) is an acclaimed gangster flick linking the state to an infamous neo-fascist bombing at Bologna train station, where 85 people died.
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After all, in a video from Thursday of last week, Cernovich play-acted as a gangster, implying that someone, somewhere protects him from his enemies.
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" Young Thug, on the other hand, postulates what being a rapper or gangster means and that, rather defiantly, "there is no such thing as gender.
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Her first track "Gangster," released a couple months back, combines sunny instrumentals with PJ's effortless vocals, soulful and laidback with the requisite pinches of pop.
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What put you in position to write a book like this, one that's being praised as much for its precise historicism as its gangster imagery?
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I wanted to take a gangster motif, a slow motion Western motif, where the heroes walk in slow motion with their horses as a gang.
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On the next TIFF report: Tasha tackles Ben Wheatley's '70s gangster film Free Fire, and the latest from writer-director Paul Schrader, Dog Eat Dog.
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Scorsese's most recent film, a gangster pseudo-biopic called "The Irishman," is currently getting a limited run in theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
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"They're like gangster turkeys," says Courtney Lopchinsky, a resident who told CBS 2 of a wild turkey crashing through her kitchen window at dinner time.
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The British cartoon pig is seen as a subversive "gangster" icon associated with "shehuiren" culture, which refers to people who are poorly educated and unemployed.
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Orchestrating the fraud was a gangster who went by the nickname Windshield Wiper, an inside joke among his associates that referred to his quick temper.
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" He tweeted a photo of tattooed Latinos making gangster signs, calling the men Representative Nancy Pelosi's "campaign committee for the take back of the House.
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In the United States, birthplace of "gangster rap" and hardcore hip-hop, brawls and even gun killings are not unheard of among some rap artists.
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Witnesses in the trial of Guzman claimed the gangster, 61, once paid a $100 million bribe to Lopez Obrador's predecessor, former president Enrique Pena Nieto.
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To add to the gangster punchline, this year Dime flew in the yellow couch Wade DesArmo switch pop shoved in his That's Official video part.
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"In 2009, Breaking Bad had an episode where Mexican cartels used an IED," says Ioan Grillo, a journalist and author of the book Gangster Warlords.
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"In 20093, Breaking Bad had an episode where Mexican cartels used an IED," says Ioan Grillo, a journalist and author of the book Gangster Warlords.
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They know him as TeeCee4800, the gangster rapper whose white tube socks, even when directly contrasted with the neon of Tokyo, are blinding and crisp.
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But the longer Pence occupies a high-level role in an administration governed by gangster ethics, the more trouble he's going to find himself in.
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As for villains, the gangster in my Inspector Rebus series (Morris Gerald Cafferty) owes a lot to Mick Ballou in Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder series.
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"Two were on tattooers, and one was on this gangster from Florida who sold a bunch of weed and wanted his eyelid tattooed," he said.
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But in many others, sometimes on the same albums, he portrayed the gangster life as a desperate, self-destructive existence of fear and sudden death.
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The actor Cillian Murphy is back in the spotlight right now as a 20th century gangster in the new season of "Peaky Blinders" on Netflix.
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By that time Mr. Ellison, described as an old-school gangster purist, had withdrawn his protection from Mr. Hernandez and mocked him as a fraud.
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"Nowhere to Hide" — his only venture into the popular Korean genre of the gangster film — may be both his most singular and most accessible movie.
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All of this would be fine if I felt better about our shared enterprise, which is looking sketchier and more gangster-like by the day.
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In the process, his early protestation that "I'm a banker, not a gangster" becomes increasingly hollow, especially with the threat of violence never far away.
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In "The Purchase Price," Barbara Stanwyck plays a seductive nightclub singer who ditches her gangster boyfriend to hide out as a fake mail-order bride.
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Raoul Walsh's first film, "Regeneration" (1915), sometimes credited as the first gangster feature, simply fell into his lap when a meter reader from Missoula, Mont.
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Having been in plenty of gangster movies, Robert De Niro is more than happy to point the finger at someone he thinks is a crook.
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Long before "The Godfather," there was the 1927 silent film "Underworld," which set the template for movies about the rise and fall of a gangster.
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Possibly the first reference to canceling someone comes with the 1991 film New Jack City, in which Wesley Snipes plays a gangster named Nino Brown.
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The streets became even more appealing after a popular Gangster Disciple, Jarvis Smith, 22, was killed 11 years ago, drawing everyone in the neighborhood closer.
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At some point, he put on a Halloween costume, a 1920s-style gangster suit and hat purchased at Goodwill, and a menacing flesh-colored mask.
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His sister Maureen McManus was married to Michael J. Spillane, a bookmaker, loan shark and, by all accounts, gentleman gangster who was known as Mickey.
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What's most impressive about how this subverts tropes of the gangster narrative, however, is how these themes are communicated to you through the game's mechanics.
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That's Vito's predicament in a nutshell—and that's why Mafia II spoke to me on a level that no other gangster game has done before.
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His career works in contrast to someone like Instagram's Roy Purdy, who is slowly using the notoriety from his high school dancing and pro-level skating videos to build a broad entertainment career (he recently signed with CAA), or Supreme Patty, who is squirting lemon juice in his eyes for professional aspirations, or 6ix9ine, who's online gangster persona turned him (almost) into an actual gangster.
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