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the mobster threatened to break his legs if he didn't pay up
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Naomi Watts had her Hollywood breakthrough as an aspiring actress in LA who befriends a woman (Laura Elena Harring) suffering from amnesia after a car accident, and the two come on the radar of a smarmy film director (Justin Theroux) who's being threatened by mobsters.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
As The National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement wrote in a 2022 article concerning the movie's development, mobsters Genovese and Costello worked for the Luciano crime family.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
That summer, the Emirates extradited an Italian drug trafficker and mobster who had been living in Dubai for years.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
But the precise slices suggest that Paulie possesses the meticulousness that aided old school mobsters in tasks like buying bodies where nobody could find them or keeping track of drug shipments.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
As The National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement wrote in a 2022 article concerning the movie's development, mobsters Genovese and Costello worked for the Luciano crime family.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
That summer, the Emirates extradited an Italian drug trafficker and mobster who had been living in Dubai for years.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
But the precise slices suggest that Paulie possesses the meticulousness that aided old school mobsters in tasks like buying bodies where nobody could find them or keeping track of drug shipments.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Mobster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobster. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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mobster
noun
mob·ster
ˈmäb-stər 
: a member of a criminal gang
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