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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, California — A Medal of Freedom awarded to a notorious mobster by then-US President Harry S. Truman is set to go under the hammer in California. The honor — a forerunner to the ...

The descendants of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky are seeking compensation for a hotel casino in Cuba he built in the 1950s. Talks between the United States and Cuba regarding claims by Americans to ...

Miami, Dec 10 (EFE).Miami, Dec 10 (EFE). — The family of late U.S. mobster Meyer Lansky is seeking to recover the Habana Riviera hotel, which was nationalized during the Cuban Revolution in 1959, or ...

Now that Bozo Obama hauled his tango-shimmering behind out of Latin America, more dancing’s in store for los Cubanos. In mid-1900s dwelt Meyer Lansky. A toughie. Big-time money. Slugged “the Mob’s ...

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Here is an excellent theory about my visit to Cuba, from a prominent antisemite named Jeffrey Gates (h/t Harry's Place): Goldberg reports he was "summoned" to Havana to discuss Castro's fears of a ...