what horrors linger for the gambino crime family?
David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises begins as a kind of transgressive holiday story. Although here, the pregnant woman looking for refuge on Christmas Eve is a 14-year-old Russian prostitute and drug addict who leaks a puddle of blood before collapsing in a London pharmacy. In a typically Cronenbergian moment of matter-of-fact, almost clinical gore, his camera lingers over the dead woman’s newborn baby, whose coating of fluids and blood gives her the waxen look of a doll. Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife, walks away with the dead woman’s diary, hoping to trace the relatives who can claim the child. A business card in the diary leads Anna to the front door of a luxurious, womblike Russian supper club called Trans-Siberian – as perfect and rich as a glazed fruit tart. Stony men in black overcoats and women cocooned in furs whisk in and out engaged in the business of dinner or crime. Walking through Trans-Siberian’s door is like entering another world, in this case the epicenter of the Vory
The Gambino crime family is one of the “Five Families”, or borgata, that control organized crime activity in New York City. It is part a nationwide criminal network known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963 when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The group’s operations extend from New York to much of the eastern seaboard and all across the nation to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, prostitution, murder for hire, solid and toxic waste dumping violations, construction, building and cement violations, fraud and wire fraud, hijacking, pier thefts and fencing…… Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambino_crime_family Sources:
