One minor thing that always bugged me about the Pope of Greenwich Village-- "Bedbug Eddie" Grant is portrayed as a standard Italian mafioso. But with a name like Eddie Grant, and his reputation for chopping people up, he sounds a lot more like a Westie-type Irish gangster. I never read the book so I don't know for sure, but I always suspected that he was Irish in the book, and that Hollywood just made him Italian because they like that kind of gangster better.