De Niro will play not one, but two, different Italian mob bosses in the film who are based on real-life mafia rivals, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. Jack Nicholson previously portrayed Frank ...

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The Palermo that we see through Battaglia’s eyes is a city in the midst of mafia killings. But, children are still running around and parents are still going to church. In the 1970s to 1990s, Cosa ...