gangster

There’s a rich conversation about the efficacy of influential figures such as gangster Casper Holstein and writer Carl Van Vechten, who helped finance and support, respectively, members of the Harlem Renaissance and their work.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Baron Cohen, 54, is known for his self-created comic characters including infamous spoof wannabe gangster Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and Austrian fashionista Brüno Gehard.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In a gangster movie we’d call it muscle: large men with misshapen heads who do the grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Vincent Pastore, best known for playing gangster informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

He has played gangsters, soldiers, policemen, politicians, patriots, villains, comic characters and tragic figures, while moving between Hindi and Marathi cinema and sometimes also working behind the camera as a director and writer.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yestin Duran, a 31-year-old beverage vendor, said she feared that "gangsters and robbers can cross over" more easily from Brazil.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

People are carefully trying to connect the dots, trying to point to places within Dylan’s work where he’s mentioned gangsters or specific moments in American history.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

In clipped, fast-moving scenes, Mr. Sayles shifts between the boardroom and the assembly line, and radiates out to develop the roles of attendant characters, from journalists to labor activists to gangsters and rumrunners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Prohibition-era gangsters also became known for the cars they drove or were driven in.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler