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Article: Superfly returns: Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas back in the spotlight with `American Gangster'
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- November 9, 2007
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Frank Lucas, at 77 years old and wheelchair-bound, still has a small gang doting on him.
Sons, publicists and friends swirl around Lucas in nearly perpetual commotion, fetching him everything from pills to a cooling fan. A recent visitor is directed kindly _ though in no uncertain terms _ in and out of the room.
There's still plenty of power left in Lucas's presence, even though his days as a Harlem drug lord are decades past, his millions long ago seized by the government.
Lucas is again in the spotlight because of "American Gangster," the Ridley Scott-directed film in which Denzel Washington portrays Lucas. A special as part of BET's "American ...