Hollywood Glamorizes The Mafia At Kids Expense

The Sopranos

Hollywood and its component, the music industry, are known for having their financial feet in mafia coffers, as they have funded a number of tinseltown and record label projects. As a result, over the years, they have and continue to, glamorize the violent, brutal and unethical lifestyle of the mafia, as though it is something to be proud of, when it is not. Hollywood and the music industry have done this at the expense of impressionable teens and kids, which deserves the strongest rebuke and denunciation.

Shows such as the "Sopranos" and movies like "Scarface" "Goodfellas" and the forthcoming "Gotti" biopic, glorify violence, hate, misogyny, promiscuous sex and thievery. A number of music albums have done the same. Youth, whose minds are like sponges, take in this so-called entertainment and attempt to emulate it to their detriment. However, it is not cool when they get killed or arrested for trying to behave like a criminal character on television or wax.

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Italy Wants Prime Minster Berlusconi To Face Criminal Trial For Sex With Minors

Silvio Berlusconi (Ber-lust-coni)

Prosecutors in Italy want embattled Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to face trial, over allegations of sex with minors and underage prostitution, at his infamous sex parities in Milan. Berlusconi is being accused of having sex with underage girls in orgies he has dubbed "bunga bunga" parties.

Berlusconi is accused of having sex with a then 17-year-old stripper, Karima El Mahroug, in orgies that featured 20 women to 1 man, namely him

This week, Italy erupted in protests, as many seek Berlusconi's removal from office. The scandal continues to grow and has left many unanswered questions in Europe. Berlusconi, for his part, has denied the charges. Nonetheless, the mafia, who he allegedly has ties to, is reportedly shopping nude photos of the 74-year-old at a pool side orgy, for $1.6 million dollars.

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Sopranos Star Arrested For Assault And Extortion

The Sopranos was sued by Italian-Americans over its very negative portrait

Another case of life imitating art has surfaced in Hollywood, via the arrest of, Anthony Borgese, also known as, Tony Darrow, on extortion and assault charges. Borgese, a star of the mafia television show "The Sopranos" decided to behave like a mobster and severely beat a man that owed him and another man money. Loan shark, anyone.

Sopranos actors James Gandolfini and Anthony Borgese

Borgese, is connected to the Italian-American mafia crime group, known as the Gambino family. People should not glorify or romanticize the mafia or any other organized crime group, as it is not an honorable way of life and it often leads to serious trouble.

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Life imitates art: Sopranos actor sent to jail for mob-related extortion

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Hollywood Lobbies For Industry Futures

Hollywood

In the biggest rip-off yet, Hollywood is lobbing the US Congress for industry futures to be traded on the stock market. Hollywood, a town built on organized crime seed money, thievery and criminal copyright infringement, seeks to offer the public the dubious opportunity to bet on the future performance of Hollywood films that most so-called industry executives can't even predict.

Considering movie audience attendance and music sales have steadily plummeted, prompting the industry to increase prices to show some kind of profit, while reaching less people with their products, banking on Hollywood is like wagering on the Titanic (and no, I'm not talking about the movie).

The fact of the matter is most Hollywood films and albums fail, ending up in the red. Studios and labels home for a few releases to do well, to save them from dozens of flops and financial failures. It is not like the food or airline industry in America, steadily packing in customers based on services people need.

Box-office futures are dealt a blow

April 22, 2010 - A Senate panel votes to ban the proposed futures exchanges, which are opposed by studios. Don't bet on betting on the box office.

A Senate committee dealt a big blow to the plans of two trading firms looking to create a box-office futures exchange that would allow the movie industry as well as investors to wager on movie ticket sales...

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