In his 80 years, Meyer Lansky worked alongside the most notorious gangsters in American history. He spearheaded a worldwide gambling racket and allegedly had quite a few people murdered for getting in ...
Mobster Meyer Lansky was once quoted as saying that he kept his business in his hat. It must have been some hat. Or maybe not. A new cinematic character study, Lansky, was just released. As the author ...
Tom Santilli is a respected journalist and member of the Critics Choice Association, Detroit Film Critics Society and Online Film Critics Society since 2010. Tom is the Executive Producer and co-host ...
(JTA) — Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in “Mean Streets ...
Looks like mobsters could be as sentimental and sappy as the next guy. (We feel almost safe saying this as Miami Beach gangster Meyer Lansky has been dead for more than 36 years.) A one-page, ...
“People see the same thing from different perspectives. And that fascinates me,” Harvey Keitel notes in an early scene while playing the title role in “Lansky,” writer-director Eytan Rockaway’s ...
It took years for Sandra Lansky to realize her doting dad was a founding father of U.S. organized crime. And now, 31 years after his death, she’s shocked to discover Meyer Lansky is a part of pop ...
Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...
Reprising a role played by the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (whose character was dubbed Hyman Roth) in “The Godfather Part II,” Harvey Keitel plays the role of a real-life organized crime ...
HAVANA — The heirs of American organized crime legend Meyer Lansky want compensation for his nationalized hotel, the Riviera, the seaside home to one of the last casinos built in swinging Havana of ...
Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo of her father, Meyer Lansky. “They spolied me rotten,” Lansky says of the many mob men she called ...