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Whitey You Dog

April 7, 2022 – 3:22 am

The name Whitey belonged to one man in Boston for the last fifty years. Whitey Bulger, arch-criminal out of South Boston, had lived in the Old Colony, America’s first housing project. His first arrest for larceny predated my birth by nine years. He sold heroin in the projects. He killed friends, family, and Mafia. The […]

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You Dirty Rat

June 24, 2013 – 6:34 pm

James Cagney’s character never sat ‘you dirty rat’ in BLONDE CRAZY. The actual words were “Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin’ rat.” Close enough for me, for I was raised to regard any fink as a rat by the Bowery Boys and gangster movies. Everyone hated a snitch, but that never stopped the class squealer from telling […]

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Run Down By The G-Men

June 27, 2011 – 7:30 pm

Heroes for young boys in the 1950s were Marines, Davey Crockett, and the Three Stooges. The latter led us to the Young Rascals and the Bowery Boys on Saturday morning TV. Our parents despised the three shows as trash, but young boys across America envied these juvenile delinquents for their lively adventures in the city. […]

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