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The other, John Von Neumann, may not have been clinically insane, but he did serve as the real-life model for the title character in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove .
To be sure, as it was fiction, Rosten exaggerated a bit, but the real-life models were then extant, and I can vouch for at least one from my own experience.
In this absorbing real-life Dead Man Walking , you don't get to see the actual lethal injection, but creepy camerawork helps recreate his murders of two old men and the impact on the victims' families.
Years ago he composed a screenplay described as a "cinematographic narrative," about a real-life mass kidnapping of members of the Nicaraguan elite by the leftist Sandinista guerrillas in 1974, during the time of the Somoza dictatorship.
What Chase evidently realized (and what Coppola didn't, Clemenza aside) is that real-life mobsters can be quite funny--self-consciously funny--in a non slapsticky, non- Analyze This , sort of way.