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Article: `American Mob'; `Understanding Whitewater'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 24, 1994
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New this week is a two-part Fox miniseries, "Loyalty and
Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob," executive-produced and
written by Nicholas Pileggi and Bill Couturie with writer Robert
Malloy. Pileggi is the author of "Wise Guys," the book behind the
movie "Goodfellas," and Emmy- and Oscar-winner Couturie did "Vietnam
Requiem" and "Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt."
"Mob" airs Monday and Tuesday at 8. Ron Silver narrates the
special, which uses candid interviews with mob figures, their home
movies, rare photos, early newsreels and government surveillance
tapes. The special also looks at America's fascination with mobsters
and their lifestyles.
The miniseries' companion book has ...