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Cosa Nostra secret organization akin to the Mafia; operates in the U.S. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Gangsterism How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Much familiar information, kind of talky, but intermittently fascinating look at the Cosa Nostra, with interviews with Joseph Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) and Henry Hill (Liotta's real-life character in ``GoodFellas''). Directed by John Gotti to "make sure that only one of you comes out of the operating room breathing" on one hand, yet threatened with ruin by mayor Giuliani on the other, he had to make the choice of a lifetime between loyalty to La Cosa Nostra and adherence to the Hippocratic Oath. In "real" life, Hiro is a lowly delivery driver for the country's largest franchise, Cosa Nostra Pizza, daily maneuvering the dangerous turf of the surrounding "burbclaves," former suburbs that have become independent city-states inside walled compounds. |
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