{"id":851932,"date":"2023-09-09T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=851932"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:52:26","slug":"michael-cieply-an-old-book-and-some-thoughts-about-de-niros-dual-role-wise-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/books-literature\/michael-cieply-an-old-book-and-some-thoughts-about-de-niros-dual-role-wise-guys","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cieply: An Old Book And Some Thoughts About De Niro&#8217;s Dual-Role &#8216;Wise Guys&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.&#8217;Barbie&#8217; Making Her Home Debut With Digital &amp; PVOD Release Next Week Last Saturday, I picked up a slightly tattered copy of an old crime biography, Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld, at one of those sidewalk libraries. Published in 1974, the year after mob boss Costello died at the age of 82, the book was written by his long-time lawyer George Wolf with co-writer Joseph DiMona. As lawyer books go, it wasn&#8217;t bad. Lots of first-hand anecdotes. Not too much ax-grinding. And a reasonably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.&#8217;Barbie&#8217; Making Her Home Debut With Digital &amp; PVOD Release Next Week Last Saturday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}