Here is an article that talks about a couple of other likely Hoffa killers. LINK <https://themobmuseum.org/blog/the-violent-saga-of-sally-bugs/> It identifies Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio and Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano as likely suspects.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:56 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > It took two nights to do it, but I finished “The Irishman.” It is a good > movie and I recommend it, even at 3.5 hours. Some are touting it as one of > Director Martin Scorsese’s best. I would say it’s his best in 20 years, > maybe, but it doesn’t rank with “Raging Bull,” “Taxi Driver” or “Mean > Streets.” > Let me get this out of the way up front. Frank Sheeran did not kill Jimmy > Hoffa, as the movie shows. Sheeran was shopping around a book about his > life as a Mafia hit man and no one would take it. Then he decided to claim > responsibility for killing Jimmy Hoffa and suddenly he had a publisher. > Several of my Facebook friends are involved with the Mob Museum in Las > Vegas and they were active posting links to dispute Sheerin’s version of > the Hoffa case. Here’s an example. > > https://themobmuseum.org/blog/new-scorsese-movie-spotlight-jimmy-hoffas-disappearance/ > Scorsese seems to obliquely address this historical problem in his > appearance with Jimmy Kimmel. He says if it’s not factually true, then the > movie is more about the characters. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N80s8hBLaJM > The problem with this is that people believe Oliver Stone’s version of > history in the JFK assassination and Nixon and Watergate. Stone seems to > have crossed the line to propagandist. Scorsese seems to just be interested > in telling a good story. > And it is a good story. It’s a good primer for people who don’t know who > entwined the Mob was with American society. Bribery. Politicians and judges > in people’s pockets. Jury tampering. It was a little jarring each time > Allen Dorfman was on the screen. In 1973, Paul Laxalt, a year after leaving > Nevada’s governor’s office, attended Dorfman’s 50th birthday party in > Chicago. Laxalt was a close friend of Ronald Reagan and the next year > elected U.S. Senator in Nevada. Laxalt and Dorfman were intertwined. Keep > that in mind when you watch “The Irishman.” > Joe Pesci has gotten praise for his work and it is deserved. It is > definitely a different Joe Pesci. Al Pacino also got praise for his role as > Hoffa. I didn’t buy it. Physically, he looked like Hoffa. But Pacino’s > voice does not sound like the Midwestern corn-fed guy that Hoffa was. It’s > the equivalent of Paul Newman playing a blue-eyed American Indian. I grew > up in a town with heavy mining union activity. I walked picket lines at > ages 3 and 6. I think my father believed having a child there calmed > tempers. They were miner’s union members, not Teamsters. They weren’t fans > of Hoffa. But they were quite familiar with him. Comedian Jim Norton played > Don Rickles and he likely recited a Rickles joke exactly but his > impersonation was not convincing. > Two other comedians deserve praise. Ray Romano did good work as a union > lawyer. I’ve praised him before in this group for “Get Shorty.” Romano is > convincing as a cool-headed lawyer working on the dark side. We’ve also > discussed Sebastian Maniscalco. I wondered why he deserved a second > appearance on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Maniscalco has a smaller > role as a mobster named Crazy Joe but he lives up to the nickname. Gotta > give credit where credit is due. > The big gimmick for this movie is that they use CGI to make the actors > more youthful or older. All in all it works. DeNiro and Pacino look much > younger for a good part of the film. > Netflix has spent a lot of money to produce a good movie. I hope it pays > off for them. But I’ve got to wonder if maybe they could have made three > Coen Brothers movies and film fans would have been better off. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yx5TBYdn8kdiRfM6ksA_racMNeiGnMWB9JREvVYEffxfA%40mail.gmail.com.
