Bogdanovich was having an affair with Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy model who was killed by her crazy boyfriend. He would honor Stratten's memory by screwing her younger sister, who I think was still a teenager at the time. He eventually married her.
He directed Mask, at least.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
