2001-08-17 - 5:11 a.m.
I just watched The Godfather for the umpteenth time. "Leave the gun, take the canoles." Speaking of the mob, check out www.wmob.com it's part of The Smoking Gun, one of my favorite websites. Check out the adventures of Frankie and Fritzie. Two swell guys. Hey fogeddaboutit. I met a mob boss on a cruise ship when I was 16. Christmas morning, my 16th birthday, we were off the coast of Jamaica. I was one of the first passengers awake. I was out on deck, watching the sunrise and this Mafioso shows up, he was about 50. We started talking. Suddenly, a chopper shows up above the boat. The doors behind us fly open and two sailors and the ship's doctor are wheeling this guy on a stretcher out onto the deck. It turns out that the guy had had a heart attack and the gangster and I helped the crew load this guy onto the helicopter gurney. After the chopper flew off to the hospital, the mob guy looked at me and said "A fucking heart attack on fucking Christmas day. Sonofabitch, what are ya gonna do?"
