Not all mobsters have relatives in Sicily. Organized crime in America is an unfortunate byproduct of urban poverty and the immigrant experience. It has embraced and attracted a wide variety of ethnic ...

Television’s biographical movies have become dead-celebrity makeovers. HBO’s strange, confounding Lansky wants to justify mobster Meyer Lansky. In a week when CBS pitied tobacco heiress Doris Duke and ...

You want history read a book, watch a documentary. You want a wonderfully idiosyncratic, uniquely stylized, highly textured two hours of brilliantly acted television drama, watch “Lansky. I can’t ...

(JTA) — Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in “Mean Streets ...

“People see the same thing from different perspectives. And that fascinates me,” Harvey Keitel notes in an early scene while playing the title role in “Lansky,” writer-director Eytan Rockaway’s ...