Another album, 2001's Love and Theft, was claimed to have passages similar to lines from Confessions of a Yakuza, the memoir of a Japanese gangster by author Junichi Saga.
In the past few years, Dutt has won himself a fan following with a curious combination of gangster and bumbling comic roles.
Suddenly it was like some mad scene out of a gangster movie.
They said his nickname was "Big Reach", because he once befriended a gangster on the streets of New York who used that name.
"We're pulling up on you, " a man who identified himself as a member of the Gangster Disciples warned in one of the videos.
"It was when someone talked to me about Bugsy Malone that the idea lit up in my head, " he said, with a reference to Alan Parker's 1976 musical gangster film which boasted a cast of child actors.
"The Raid" from Indonesia combines SWAT-team-versus-gangster slaughter with a discipline of martial arts called silat.
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Fake newspaper-style headlines with exclamation points, in the manner of a Warner Bros. gangster movie from the nineteen-thirties, suddenly appear and disappear, and some of the voices that are supposed to be those of actual newscasters were clearly concocted by the filmmaker.
One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.
Also staying at the hotel is Robert Taylor, a hip Detroit gangster with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Delta blues.
In general a handful of homes toting Depression-era gangster ties have burst onto the sale block this year.
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According to Lorcan Otway, director of the Museum of the American Gangster in New York, Capone was adept at creating a public image that captured the imagination of Americans, a feat helped greatly by new media outlets of the time.
Having discovered his passion for film-making, Omondi has made a number of projects -- documentaries about schools, commercials, and a feature film on the gangster scene.
In honor of the 25th anniversary, the film has been re-released on Blu Ray, Hill's longtime girlfriend Lisa Caserta has assisted in the publication of a new book by the late gangster and Flavorwire writer Jason Bailey attempted to track down the elusive Pesci, who has retired from acting and all but disappeared.
The inquest into the death of Mark Duggan will consider whether he was a "gangster" who intended to kill someone.
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The court blamed Dawood Ibrahim, a gangster who has been hiding overseas, for "the management and conspiracy of the blasts" according to Indian news channels.
The once self-described half-businessman, half-gangster insists he is now a reformed man, especially given his position as mayor of Saen Suk municipality in Chonburi.
He describes them as a witty parody mix of Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and early Jean-Luc Godard gangster movies.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
The film, expected in theaters in July and starring Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder, Green Lantern), Paul Giamatti (Sideways, John Adams) and Michael Pena (Gangster Squad, Tower Heist), depicts a snail that, through some strange turn of events, manages to become capable of great speeds in the aftermath of a freak accident.
To an extent, long-form TV series like "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" have raised the bar by exploring this kind of material in the depth a mere movie can only hint at, and "American Gangster" bites off more than it chews.
Dutt, one of Bollywood's most bankable stars, is hugely popular for his role as a loveable gangster in the Munnabhai movies.
Iconic because of its celebrated appearance in the cult British gangster film Get Carter, Trinity Square is a building that has polarised the architectural establishment, the media and locals alike.
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To give you a clear idea of how I imagine this character, think of the character Brick Top from the British gangster film Snatch, portrayed by the great actor Alan Ford.
The neo-noir plot concerns Marc (Michel Piccoli), an older gangster who pulls Alex (Denis Lavant), the son of his slain cohort, into a plot to break into a laboratory and steal an AIDS-like virus, and finds his mistress, Anna (Juliette Binoche), falling for the younger man.
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