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Can't wait for it over here might have to hit the net....................{eek3}{eek3}
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I finally made my way through all the episodes. Very entertaining. Doesn't rise to the level of the Sopranos, but still some interesting stories and characters. I really like how they captured the sights and sounds of the 1920's. And a surprise ending - spoiler - with one of the major characters getting knocked off. Hopefully at least one more season.
Thanks Dave. I'll see what I can find. I didn't think it would be available for free already. -- Al
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Sopranos and Deadwood were my two all time favorite HBO series...
but...Boardwalk Empire is better than The Sporanos in my opinion...
still nothing beat Deadwood...best Western ever...
and I loved Carnival too...
and Rome...
and Game of Thrones...
and Eastbound and Down...Curb Your Enthusiasm...Entourage...Hung...Oz...and Treme...
HBO has it all...
with Sunday Night Football...that's a tough night at my house to share the remote control...
That's why we have a DVR and on demand. I can watch the show when I want. I have to either watch in the hour I have when getting home or late at night. I have a five year old, so we try not to watch too much tv, and when we do it is very kid friendly.
Loved the end of Season 2. I noticed that it was not done as a cliff hanger, but as the end of a series. I think it was written that way just incase the 3rd season was not picked up. It took me a while to get into the show, but I was hooked after episode 2 of the first season. I watched it over the summer, so I went into season 2 pretty close to it's start. No announcement as to season 3 being picked up yet. While it is a good show it costs a lot of money to make period pieces, so we'll see. Deadwood should have had a 5th season to wrap it all up, but the cost was more than HBO wanted to pay. Rome was great as a stand alone mini series. Season 2 did nothing for me and Season 1 ends very nicely. It was not written to be a series.
Matthew
Loved the end of Season 2. I noticed that it was not done as a cliff hanger, but as the end of a series. I think it was written that way just incase the 3rd season was not picked up. It took me a while to get into the show, but I was hooked after episode 2 of the first season. I watched it over the summer, so I went into season 2 pretty close to it's start. No announcement as to season 3 being picked up yet. While it is a good show it costs a lot of money to make period pieces, so we'll see. Deadwood should have had a 5th season to wrap it all up, but the cost was more than HBO wanted to pay. Rome was great as a stand alone mini series. Season 2 did nothing for me and Season 1 ends very nicely. It was not written to be a series.
Matthew
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I didn't catch the season ending show this week but the acting and storyline on this series has been great. Much improved over last season. The only storyline that bored me was the one with Nucky's wife Margaret and her various pouting sessions and affairs. She was a real bore this season. The Richard character has really evolved. Capone is great and Gyp is a real hoot. The best bad guy on TV in a long while. One of the best shows this year.
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Don't want to spoil it for you Doug...but things really come into place...
it's a "bloodbath" unparalleled
Richard has become my new favorite character...especially after the last episode...along with Chalky and Al...
and yes...Margaret is boring me to tears...
about Gyp...it's hard to create a character so sinister...but he's the Devil re-incarnated...
HBO will re-broadcast it regularly...but if you can't wait...go to HBOGO.com...the full episode...and all others are there there to watch if you create an account...
can't wait for the final season...
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Doug...
this is an interesting read about Al Capone...
coincidently...the Pete Miller in the beginning of this story...he was my father...
there are some inaccuracies in this story...I know that for a fact...
my father was never a postal employee...he was a CPA...he had a very successful firm and he never worked in any capacity for the postal service...this is Internet embellishment...
the house he bought from Vic Maceo...was purchased in 1965...not 1968...I was born in 1955...I remember I was 10 years old when he bought it...and I thought that we had become poor when my father purchased this run down gigantic 6,000 square foot...which he had remodeled to a showcase home...
the price was $55,000...not $45,000...
Mr. Maceo...he never tried to "escape" as the article claims...after he shot my father...he calmly walked out of my father's office...and to my father's hysterical secretaties announced in broken "Italian/English"...
"I shota you boss"...
some other pieces of the story seem fabricated...some are as I remember...
it made the front page of the Wall Street Journal and was the cover story of Texas Monthly...
my father...he recovered...almost fully...but always used the broken bones in his arm as an excuse in golf...
In Galveston...Al Capone tired to muscle in on the Maceos and Fertittas...but his sergeant at arms...Frank Nitti was run out of town...
here's the story about Al Capone...
It is 1993 in Galveston, Texas and a relative to the Fertittas, 89 year old Vic Maceo has just shown how business is done in his family. The aging alleged mobster had walked into the Galveston Post Office, pulled out a .38 calibre revolver and started firing at postal worker Pete Miller, whom Maceo believed owed him money. Maceo's aim was a little off since his hey day but he still managed to hit Miller in the right arm, shattering the bones and bringing him to the ground, wincing in pain.
When the Maceos and the Fertittas ruled the town a few decades prior, this was the way disputes were settled in Galveston, Texas. In this case Vic Maceo had sold a house to Pete Miller for $45,000 in 1968 and when Miller sold it in 1991, he sold it for $180,000. Naturally Vic felt that some of the profit should have been his. Miller had once worked as a busboy at the Maceo-Fertitta controlled illegal casino known as 'The Balinese Room' and Vic C. Mateo, who was also known as 'Little Vic' to distinguish him from his cousin Vic A. 'Gigolo' Maceo, could not cope with the fact that a busboy had seemingly gotten the better of him.
As Vic Maceo attempted to make his escape in his sports car, police apprehended him. He gave himself up willingly and when approached by the police, he said in a defiant and firm voice, "When you look a guy in the eye and tell him he owes you forty grand and he tells you, 'Let me get the file,' you know that the son of a delicate flower is lying." As the police slapped handcuffs on him he retorted with "You don't handcuff a gentleman in this town!" Such was the power that the Maceo and Ferttita gang once wielded in Galveston
Fertitta In-Law 'Big' Sam Maceo, The 'Barber of Galveston'
It all began in the early 20th century when two Sicilian barbers arrived in Galveston from Sicily via Louisiana. Rose and Sam Maceo were soon to build an illegal gambling empire from simple bootlegging roots and become known as Papa Rose and Big Sam. Along with their relatives the Fertitta family, they would control the black economy, the organised crime and the politics of Galveston for many years. One of their more well known illegal casinos was 'The Balinese Room' but by the mid 1930's, and the time that prohibition ended, they had built up an entire city block of illegal casinos and gambling dens in Galveston. Many people feel that they created the Vegas format before Vegas ever existed. Sam Maceo organized for all the big name singers and bands of the time to appear at his casinos, including Frank Sinatra.
The Balinese Room in Galveston Texas.
The Maceo-Fertitta gang was responsible for funding many things in the Galveston community and despite obvious connections to the New Orleans mob; no one dared to complain about the criminal benefactors of the town. In fact those that did complain usually ended up sleeping with the fishes, according to local legend.
The Maceo-Fertitta gang wielded great power and most of the other mobsters knew better than to tread on their turf. The Chicago crime czar Al Capone had heard about the lucrative gambling and bootleg empire that the Maceos and Fertittas had built in Galveston and he wanted some of that action. He planned to at first become a partner with them and then muscle them out of the picture once he had his hooks firmly embedded. Al Capone sent his main man Frank Nitti to Galveston to intimidate the Maceos into allowing Capone to "invest" in their businesses. The Maceos received word of Nitti's impending arrival and they decided that they would flat-out refuse any offers from Nitti on behalf of Capone to take a piece of their illegal gambling pie.
They decided to call on the skills of the most ruthless member of their family's gang, Maceo In-Law, Anthony Fertitta. Nitti arrived in town and was introduced to the Maceos and to Anthony Fertitta, Fertitta told Nitti that they needed to talk and he took Nitti for a drive in his car. The two men were gone for several hours and it is not clear what events took place during that time. All that is known is that Nitti was dropped at the city limits very late that evening, he appeared to be shaken but alive and well. No one knows what took place during the car ride but when Nitti made it back to Chicago, he told Capone that the Fertittas were no pushovers and it would require an all out war to move in on their territory. Capone never pursued it any further.
Rose Maceo was suspected of many gangland killings during the 1930's. Including his first wife and her lover, but no Maceo was ever convicted of a felony.
Al Capone came off second best when he tried to muscle in on the Fertittas.
Sam Maceo, was the brain behind the Maceo-Fertitta empire and he was directly under the control of New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, who later would be linked to the assassination of JFK. Sam also helped the pioneer Vegas hotelier, Moe Dalitz to get a gaming licence for The Desert Inn Las Vegas's first casino, not very long before his death. Papa Rose and Big Sam had both passed away by the 1950's and many of the remaining Maceo's and the dealers who worked in their illegal casinos moved out to Las Vegas.
The Galveston gambling empire was under the control of mob boss Carlos Marcello, who would later be implicated in the JFK assassination.
The Fertittas, who were related to the Maceos by marriage, took control of the Galveston gaming empire, where they honed their skills in the casino and hospitality fields, a legacy that would remain lucrative to the family for generations to come. Unlike the socially more adept Maceos, who flaunted their success despite its illegality, the Fertittas did not take too kindly to publicity.
In 1955, a Time magazine LIFE reporter visited one of the illegal Fertitta casinos in Galveston. In an article entitled 'Thugs vs The Press', he reported the following in the August 1955 edition of Time Magazine.
" Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abounds, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work.
After LIFE Photographer Joe Scherschel and Reporter Hank Suydam took pictures (with a concealed camera) in one of Fertitta's gambling houses, the boss and two henchmen followed the LIFE men to their hotel. Photographer Scherschel took his film upstairs while Reporter Suydam encountered Fertitta and his two strong-arm men in the lobby. Fertitta demanded an explanation of what Suydam and Scherschel had been doing, suddenly smashed Suydam in the face. By the time Suydam had picked himself off the floor, Fertitta had switched tactics, tried to stuff a $20 bill into the reporter's pocket.
Last week, just before LIFE published "Wide-Open Galveston Mocks Texas Laws," Gambling Boss Fertitta was tried for simple assault in the Galveston justice court. After Fertitta pleaded "not guilty" and then refused to take the stand, Justice J. L. McKenna found Fertitta guilty, gave him the maximum punishment: a $25 fine. The conviction was much more important than the small fine. In Galveston, where gang leaders like Fertitta have long tried to pose as legitimate businessmen, the criminal conviction reported on Page One of Texas newspapers helped to expose these "legitimate businessmen" for the thugs they are."
Partially in light of the adverse publicity that they began to attract and partially due to the more conservative political climate of the mid to late 1950's, the Galveston gambling empire began to slowly crumble. Many of the Fertittas also began to migrate to Las Vegas and it all finally came to a crashing halt in Galveston in 1957 when the Attorney General Will Wilson, along with the Texas Rangers, smashed the Fertitta's illegal gambling racket. The glory days for the Maceos and Fertittas were over in Texas, for the moment at least.
this is an interesting read about Al Capone...
coincidently...the Pete Miller in the beginning of this story...he was my father...
there are some inaccuracies in this story...I know that for a fact...
my father was never a postal employee...he was a CPA...he had a very successful firm and he never worked in any capacity for the postal service...this is Internet embellishment...
the house he bought from Vic Maceo...was purchased in 1965...not 1968...I was born in 1955...I remember I was 10 years old when he bought it...and I thought that we had become poor when my father purchased this run down gigantic 6,000 square foot...which he had remodeled to a showcase home...
the price was $55,000...not $45,000...
Mr. Maceo...he never tried to "escape" as the article claims...after he shot my father...he calmly walked out of my father's office...and to my father's hysterical secretaties announced in broken "Italian/English"...
"I shota you boss"...
some other pieces of the story seem fabricated...some are as I remember...
it made the front page of the Wall Street Journal and was the cover story of Texas Monthly...
my father...he recovered...almost fully...but always used the broken bones in his arm as an excuse in golf...
In Galveston...Al Capone tired to muscle in on the Maceos and Fertittas...but his sergeant at arms...Frank Nitti was run out of town...
here's the story about Al Capone...
It is 1993 in Galveston, Texas and a relative to the Fertittas, 89 year old Vic Maceo has just shown how business is done in his family. The aging alleged mobster had walked into the Galveston Post Office, pulled out a .38 calibre revolver and started firing at postal worker Pete Miller, whom Maceo believed owed him money. Maceo's aim was a little off since his hey day but he still managed to hit Miller in the right arm, shattering the bones and bringing him to the ground, wincing in pain.
When the Maceos and the Fertittas ruled the town a few decades prior, this was the way disputes were settled in Galveston, Texas. In this case Vic Maceo had sold a house to Pete Miller for $45,000 in 1968 and when Miller sold it in 1991, he sold it for $180,000. Naturally Vic felt that some of the profit should have been his. Miller had once worked as a busboy at the Maceo-Fertitta controlled illegal casino known as 'The Balinese Room' and Vic C. Mateo, who was also known as 'Little Vic' to distinguish him from his cousin Vic A. 'Gigolo' Maceo, could not cope with the fact that a busboy had seemingly gotten the better of him.
As Vic Maceo attempted to make his escape in his sports car, police apprehended him. He gave himself up willingly and when approached by the police, he said in a defiant and firm voice, "When you look a guy in the eye and tell him he owes you forty grand and he tells you, 'Let me get the file,' you know that the son of a delicate flower is lying." As the police slapped handcuffs on him he retorted with "You don't handcuff a gentleman in this town!" Such was the power that the Maceo and Ferttita gang once wielded in Galveston
Fertitta In-Law 'Big' Sam Maceo, The 'Barber of Galveston'
It all began in the early 20th century when two Sicilian barbers arrived in Galveston from Sicily via Louisiana. Rose and Sam Maceo were soon to build an illegal gambling empire from simple bootlegging roots and become known as Papa Rose and Big Sam. Along with their relatives the Fertitta family, they would control the black economy, the organised crime and the politics of Galveston for many years. One of their more well known illegal casinos was 'The Balinese Room' but by the mid 1930's, and the time that prohibition ended, they had built up an entire city block of illegal casinos and gambling dens in Galveston. Many people feel that they created the Vegas format before Vegas ever existed. Sam Maceo organized for all the big name singers and bands of the time to appear at his casinos, including Frank Sinatra.
The Balinese Room in Galveston Texas.
The Maceo-Fertitta gang was responsible for funding many things in the Galveston community and despite obvious connections to the New Orleans mob; no one dared to complain about the criminal benefactors of the town. In fact those that did complain usually ended up sleeping with the fishes, according to local legend.
The Maceo-Fertitta gang wielded great power and most of the other mobsters knew better than to tread on their turf. The Chicago crime czar Al Capone had heard about the lucrative gambling and bootleg empire that the Maceos and Fertittas had built in Galveston and he wanted some of that action. He planned to at first become a partner with them and then muscle them out of the picture once he had his hooks firmly embedded. Al Capone sent his main man Frank Nitti to Galveston to intimidate the Maceos into allowing Capone to "invest" in their businesses. The Maceos received word of Nitti's impending arrival and they decided that they would flat-out refuse any offers from Nitti on behalf of Capone to take a piece of their illegal gambling pie.
They decided to call on the skills of the most ruthless member of their family's gang, Maceo In-Law, Anthony Fertitta. Nitti arrived in town and was introduced to the Maceos and to Anthony Fertitta, Fertitta told Nitti that they needed to talk and he took Nitti for a drive in his car. The two men were gone for several hours and it is not clear what events took place during that time. All that is known is that Nitti was dropped at the city limits very late that evening, he appeared to be shaken but alive and well. No one knows what took place during the car ride but when Nitti made it back to Chicago, he told Capone that the Fertittas were no pushovers and it would require an all out war to move in on their territory. Capone never pursued it any further.
Rose Maceo was suspected of many gangland killings during the 1930's. Including his first wife and her lover, but no Maceo was ever convicted of a felony.
Al Capone came off second best when he tried to muscle in on the Fertittas.
Sam Maceo, was the brain behind the Maceo-Fertitta empire and he was directly under the control of New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, who later would be linked to the assassination of JFK. Sam also helped the pioneer Vegas hotelier, Moe Dalitz to get a gaming licence for The Desert Inn Las Vegas's first casino, not very long before his death. Papa Rose and Big Sam had both passed away by the 1950's and many of the remaining Maceo's and the dealers who worked in their illegal casinos moved out to Las Vegas.
The Galveston gambling empire was under the control of mob boss Carlos Marcello, who would later be implicated in the JFK assassination.
The Fertittas, who were related to the Maceos by marriage, took control of the Galveston gaming empire, where they honed their skills in the casino and hospitality fields, a legacy that would remain lucrative to the family for generations to come. Unlike the socially more adept Maceos, who flaunted their success despite its illegality, the Fertittas did not take too kindly to publicity.
In 1955, a Time magazine LIFE reporter visited one of the illegal Fertitta casinos in Galveston. In an article entitled 'Thugs vs The Press', he reported the following in the August 1955 edition of Time Magazine.
" Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abounds, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work.
After LIFE Photographer Joe Scherschel and Reporter Hank Suydam took pictures (with a concealed camera) in one of Fertitta's gambling houses, the boss and two henchmen followed the LIFE men to their hotel. Photographer Scherschel took his film upstairs while Reporter Suydam encountered Fertitta and his two strong-arm men in the lobby. Fertitta demanded an explanation of what Suydam and Scherschel had been doing, suddenly smashed Suydam in the face. By the time Suydam had picked himself off the floor, Fertitta had switched tactics, tried to stuff a $20 bill into the reporter's pocket.
Last week, just before LIFE published "Wide-Open Galveston Mocks Texas Laws," Gambling Boss Fertitta was tried for simple assault in the Galveston justice court. After Fertitta pleaded "not guilty" and then refused to take the stand, Justice J. L. McKenna found Fertitta guilty, gave him the maximum punishment: a $25 fine. The conviction was much more important than the small fine. In Galveston, where gang leaders like Fertitta have long tried to pose as legitimate businessmen, the criminal conviction reported on Page One of Texas newspapers helped to expose these "legitimate businessmen" for the thugs they are."
Partially in light of the adverse publicity that they began to attract and partially due to the more conservative political climate of the mid to late 1950's, the Galveston gambling empire began to slowly crumble. Many of the Fertittas also began to migrate to Las Vegas and it all finally came to a crashing halt in Galveston in 1957 when the Attorney General Will Wilson, along with the Texas Rangers, smashed the Fertitta's illegal gambling racket. The glory days for the Maceos and Fertittas were over in Texas, for the moment at least.
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back to my father...here is an old clipping from the Galveston Daily News...that's my aunt standing next to him...my dad was a "tough guy"..."old school Greek"...never complained about anything...
Mr. Maceo died before this finally went to trial...
Mr. Maceo died before this finally went to trial...
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