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    Oct 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Television review: 'Prohibition'

    It's fall on PBS, when the big documentary blockbusters heave into view; and nobody builds them bigger than Ken Burns, whose name always seems to be part of the title, even when it isn't: "Ken Burns' Baseball," "Ken Burns' Jazz," "Ken Burns' Civil War." Burns likes to swallow huge subjects whole — American subjects — and this year he brings us "Prohibition," the story of the 14-year misrule of the 18th Amendment and of the decades-long temperance movement that preceded it.
    It's fall on PBS, when the big documentary blockbusters heave into view; and nobody builds them bigger than Ken Burns, whose name always seems to be part of the title, even when it isn't: "Ken Burns' Baseball," "Ken Burns' Jazz," "Ken Burns' Civil War."...

    Tags: Immigration, Peter Coyote, Wars and Interventions, Documentary (genre), PBS (tv network)

    2. Sep 20, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  2. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Meet Nucky Thompson

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    Late in the pilot of "Boardwalk Empire," Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) peers into a fortune teller's shop, watching her read someone's palm. The camera frames him through the glass front door, the writing on the door standing out in front......
    3. Sep 14, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Movie business hitmen rule the roost: Why is Hollywood still married to the mob?

    The Big Picture
    For the over-60 crowd, making gangster movies is like Viagra. It just keeps the creative juices flowing. The younger generation of moviegoers has only the spottiest of interest in mob stories, since the last actual gangster to even remotely capture......
    4. Oct 25, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Inventing the mob story

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    One of the things that's really working for me on "Boardwalk Empire" is the fact that the show is so fearless about showing people in their most private of moments. Aside from a couple of big mob moments in Sunday......
    5. Aug 7, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. TCA Press Tour: 'Boardwalk Empire' is finally Steve Buscemi's empire

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    When "Boardwalk Empire" creator and executive producer Terence Winter called Steve Buscemi to tell him that he had landed the lead role in HBO's new epic series about Atlantic City in the 1920s, the highly respected actor didn't believe it;......
    6. Jul 6, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Is it Lucky timing?

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Before Tony Soprano or Don Corleone or Tony Montana there was Lucky Luciano -- the real-life patriarch of modern organized crime. Luciano was the Sicilian immigrant who rose to power in the Mafia in the U.S. in the 1920s and transformed it into a...

    Tags: Frank Sinatra, Sicilian Mafia, Meyer Lansky, Walter Matthau, Justice System

    7. May 11, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Searching for Tato

    As a child growing up half wild on a remote Arizona ranch, Andrew Earle looked forward every summer to his family's annual trip East. Cowboys would take Andrew and the rest of his family--mother Cynthia, brother Tony, two adopted children from Central...

    Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Australia (movie), Human Rights, Maxwell, Fiction

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