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The Value of the Menorah
Auction Details J. Greenstein & Co. is holding its biannual Judaica Auction for January 10th & 11th next week. Last time they had an auction it featured family heirlooms that were put on the block because the owners were Madoff Victims and Sammy Davis Jr....Tags: Vice (movie), Judaism, Crime, Law and Justice, Sammy Davis Jr., Organized Crime
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Historical restaurant lists presidents and gangsters among patrons
South Florida Sun SentinelEven before its incorporation 53 years ago, Lighthouse Point has attracted good folks and Good Fellas. Cap's Place epitomizes that legacy, from its speakeasy and casino beginnings during Prohibition to what it is today, 81-years later -- a romantic and...Tags: Al Capone, Mariah Carey, Restaurants, George Harrison, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Cuba B.C.*
McClatchy-Chicago Tribune newspapersCuban writer Jose Lezama Lima's description of Havana—"an unnameable feast"—fits the city's last great era like the flawless suits from Pepe Sastre fit the best-dressed mobsters of the glittering casino years. Here was a posh gambling scene...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Government, Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Murciano Finds a Lot to Love
Zap2It.comFans of CBS' Thursday hit "Without a Trace" got a bit of a surprise in the March 9 episode titled "Check Your Head." In a bowling-alley scene at the end of this unusually loopy episode about a missing supposed agoraphobic, Anthony LaPaglia and Enrique...Tags: Television, Dustin Hoffman, Comedy (genre), Marianne Jean-Baptiste, FBI
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Movie review: The Lost City'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Throbbing with music, seething with anger and romance, "The Lost City" is a film that breaks your heart, bewilders, alienates and ravishes you by turns. Director-actor Andy Garcia's movie about Cuba, revolution and exile in the...Tags: Fidel Castro, Casablanca (movie), Andy Garcia, Romance (genre), Dustin Hoffman
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Back in the '30s and '40s, slots and stickmen ruled Broward
Staff WriterThere was the corrupt sheriff who encouraged gambling houses to flourish, and even held a share in one. Preening gangsters such as Julian "Potatoes" Kaufman, Jimmy "Blue Eyes" Alo and Longy Zwillman strutted about town, pockets filled with ill-gotten...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Fort Lauderdale, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Dania Beach
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'Undisputed'
Times Staff WriterWalter Hill's "Undisputed," a boxing/prison picture as smart as it is brawny, shows what seasoned Hollywood pros can still accomplish without pretensions and overwhelming special effects. "Undisputed" is a compelling entertainment because of Hill and co-...Tags: Sports, Rape, Jon Seda, Crime, Law and Justice, Master P
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Top winners from 1991
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Warren Beatty as Bugsy Siegel in BUGSY TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar Robert De Niro as Max Cady in CAPE FEAR Amblin Entertainment Production in association with Cappa Films and Tribeca...Tags: Susan Sarandon, Celebrities, Robin Williams, MGM Inc., Harvey Keitel
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Valentine trivia contest
SunSpot StaffThe correct answers have stars next to them. 1. Who starred in ABC's short-lived "Cupid?" A. Alan Ruck B. Jeremy Piven* C. Martin Mull D. Ayre Gross 2. Who are Cupid's parents? A. Mercury and Venus* B. Nemesis and Aphrodite C. Narcissus and Venus D....Tags: Emily Dickinson, Al Capone, Television, Benicio Del Toro, Entertainment
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Nevadans Riled By Plan To Bury Nation's Radioactive Waste In The Desert
The Hartford CourantCONTINUED ... To understand their skepticism is to understand that the land is contaminated and people here continue to suffer from the fallout of 1,000 or more nuclear test explosions, the last in 1992. It is to understand that Yucca Mountain, which is...Tags: Television, Geraldine Ferraro, Starbucks Corp., Nuclear Policy, Transportation
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HYDE: Vegas ripe for singles hitters
Finally, a city seems as intent on using a sports league as shamelessly as sports leagues have used cities all these years. How else to read that when two Marlins officials went to Las Vegas this week its mayor asked if they were married so he could...Tags: Periodicals, Sports, Miami Marlins, Baseball, Crime, Law and Justice
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