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It's a constant reminder to Freddy of the time when, as a teen-ager, he saved the town beauty (Annabella Sciorra) from drowning when her car went off the bridge, in the process mangling one ear and leaving himself unfit for the NYPD.
When Cohen is not "imagining" history, he rewrites other people's research, sometimes mangling quotes during his copying, as he did when he took a quote from a 1951 book, Murder, Inc.: The Story of "the Syndicate ," by , also about Jewish gangsters.
By mangling the truth and presenting uninformed opinion as if it were fact, Plotz and