mobster
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As the mobster Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone plot to take over even more of a Cuba on the verge of revolution, Roth says:
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
"It feels really nice, and life goes on," the ageing mobster told local media outside a Melbourne courthouse.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Sylvester Stallone as an “over-the-hill goombah” who brings East Coast mobster methods to a heartland city?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“Lilyhammer,” another favorite and the first “exclusive” Netflix series, found Steven Van Zandt as an American mobster in witness protection in a Norwegian small town; there was a ton of snow in that show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
He wore a massive velour tracksuit with gold chains around his neck and greased-back hair, so he looked like a thirty-foot-tall mobster - if mobsters had dragon feet and burnt-orange skin.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But Morano, the councilman, is adamant that "this is not just a place that should be known for landfills and mobsters."
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Rittenhome never lifts a finger, but Scorsese’s coiled performance drives home the point that corporate executives can be as ruthless as mobsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
American mobsters hated Castro for shutting down the casinos they’d been running in Cuba.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
