![]() ![]() Frank Capra, the director whose work most reflected and influenced the romance of the American Dream, was from Palermo. Though Hollywood was far more segregated than organized crime, not everyone in the movie racket was a Jew. Organized crime in America was democracy in action. In America, Unterwelt and Mafia were one, and it was in organized crime that the myth of the great American melting pot became reality. Twentieth-century organized crime in America was a primarily Jewish-Italian coalition that shared the sensibilities but lacked the ethnic purity of the true Sicilian Mafia. ![]() ![]() Hollywood was largely the invention of Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their sons. Imagine a shimmering web of complexities dissolving ultimately into darkness. This serendipity serves as an orchestral stirring as distinct as any I might devise for this tale, which reveals itself only in luminous flashes. It happens to be the feast day of Saint Teresa, who tasted the great love of God with an open mouth, and Dion’s “Runaround Sue” is rising fast on the charts. It has no beginning and no end, but opens in the American desert on an October day in 1961, with a car emerging as a shimmer in the sun. This is the story of a boy, a dream, a law degree, and a gun. ![]()
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