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The child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Sam bought Canadian distilleries and seedy hotels during the '20s, then cashed in on American Prohibition.
They hail Natasha Richardson's unglamorous portrayal of Sally Bowles--an aging, seedy bisexual nightclub singer--as the "performance of the season" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Lloyd Rose says Richardson "can't phrase a song."
I think you've got one thing exactly right: The Sopranos works so well precisely because it is understated, because it is the opposite of the operatic Godfather . Together, The Godfather and The Sopranos make up some kind of whole, but here's the fundamental difference between them: Every mobster I've ever met imagines himself a player in The Godfather . I interviewed Sammy Gravano a few weeks ago and he said as much; The Godfather invested the lives of mobsters, who are in fact seedy and boring characters, with honor and drama.
From the bar of Greenwich Village's Lion's Head pub, where he reigned as a sort of rumpled deadbeat Buddha, he attracted a circle of seedy admirers who kept him in cold beer and pocket change in return for recycled, embellished anecdotes concerning his hard-luck youth and years of wandering.
Though Brock's primary theme is Hillary's clandestine pursuit of her own idea of justice, he intersperses it with his own titular one about how a good person was "seduced" by an amoral husband and the seedy realities of Arkansas political life.