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I couldnt help finding irony in the portrait of george washington looming above president obama and prime minister netanyahu in a photo accompanying. Aug 31, 20 when kid sally and his gang of goodfellas come up with a plan to grab a piece of the mob action, itll be a no brainer. Paul benedict list of movies and tv shows tv guide. The police succeed in stopping one of the gangs, while the other remains without the boss. The gang that couldnt shoot straight contributor names block, herbert, 19092001, artist created published 7271995. If youre not familiar with him, watch michael ritchies smile 1975, sydney pollacks jeremiah johnson 1972 or a few episodes of the jeffersons 197585 where he plays the neighbor. This is the funny story about two warring mafia gangs in new york city.
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The house was a given and in those earliest years didnt register nearly as strongly as the yard. The movie version, now on dvd, follows the book closely. Crime has changed a good deal since then, but this sheds light on the some of the neanderthals that still populate this world. The gang that couldnt shoot straight 1971 rotten tomatoes. The gang that couldn t shoot straight is the story of papa baccala, a brooklyn mafia boss, and kid sally palumbo. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Jimmy breslins novel, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, was a caricature of a new york mob family. The gang that couldnt shoot straight film wikipedia. Brooklyn mobster jerry orbach and gang try to rub out rivals.
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Breslin ably wrote a book of raucous what a hilarious and sad book. It became a major motion picture that provided robert deniro with his first film role. Photo, print, drawing the gang that couldn t shoot straight digital file from original drawing full online access to this resource is only available at the library of congress. One of the movies selling points now is the early look at the work of a very young robert di nero, who. The gang that couldnt shoot straight is a 1971 american mafia comedy film directed by james goldstone and written by waldo salt, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by jimmy breslin, which in turn was based on the life of gangster joe gallo. The pleasures of breslins books were hard to transfer to the screen.
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