Posted on 07/26/2015 11:46:57 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
To take our minds off politics for a bit who was your favorite TV Gangster?
I can't seem to find much stuff to watch on Network TV anymore and I find that I have a short attention span with most shows I do see.
So last week I was trying to think what I would like to see that I had not seen in a long time and I thought of the TV show "Wiseguy" with Jonathan Banks and Ken Wahl.
I found it via my Roku on Amazon Prime and I bought the first season which I consider the best. In the first arc of that show was probably the best of it featuring Ray Sharkey, in probably the best role he ever had, as Sonny Steelgrave. He owned that role and was able to take a great character part and even make him somewhat likeable even for a Crime Lord. So he has my vote for one of the best I have ever seen.
Now there are a lot folks out here who probably like James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, and I like him too, but compared to Sonny Steelgrave, I like Sonny.
Now there another show I have found on Hulu Plus that many may remember and like from 30 years ago and that is "Crime Story" with Dennis Farina and Anthony Dennison. Dennison played Mobster Ray Luca and I must say I had forgotten how ruthless he was.
So weigh for some fun and nominate your favorite TV or even Movie Gangster.
The truth is just as gruesome. In the “Family Affair’s” trial about the Outfit. Spilotro and his brother were lured into a basement in Lombard and were kicked and beaten to death by a crew.. bare handed. Then buried in the cornfield.
Never thought I’d feel sorry for Pesci’s character in that movie, but damn that was cruel.
Dr. Miguelito Loveless
Barack Hussein Obama AKA Obie from Nirobi, a closet homo posing as president of a nation in decline.
True!! You actually felt sorry for him!!!
On the 1960s cartoon series “Roger Ramjet”, one of Roger’s adversaries was a gangster named “Noodles Romanoff.”
Vic Mackey from the Shield. He was a SOB from the first episode!
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For tv, Big Pussy on the Sopranos. Can’t think of the actor’s name offhand.He always made me laugh when he was on.
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IIRC Big Pussy died.
Vic Mackey
Vinnie Terranova
Yeah, Big Pussy died.Bummer!!
Chibs and Opie from SOA.
Bill Clinton
Sid Haig - The Devil’s Rejects and House of 1000 Corpses
No. I don’t play games online.
I don’t play online video either.
Scarface plays on your PC.
The “One-armed man,” whomever he was.
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