Donatello/Don Tekky...nice Blues Brothers avatar!

Toni G. lives here in Elmwood Park and she's a "willing" source for a quote anytime someone wants to write about "the old days" for the Outfit. So the neighborhood paper needs a feature piece about The Sopranos, realizes half the good authors on the topic of organized crime in Chicago live within a one mile radius of each other (and the newspaper's headquarters in Oak Park) and they make a few phone calls. And she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind half meaning it, half not media-savvy enough to know the right choice of words to make your point...which was...what?

When I read her "kinder/gentler" comment, I was pretty dismissive of it. So there wasn't exactly a Murder, Inc. in Chicago. That makes what they did commendable?

The paper gets delivered on Wednesday. Can't wait to see the Letters to the Editor about this (and The Sopranos premier) in upcoming editions of the neighborhood rag. If there's anything juicy that I can get to on-line I'll post links and/or cut-and-paste.

tony b.


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