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"The Departed" Returns
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:09 pm
by Guinevere
One of the FBI's top ten most wanted fugitives, James "Whitey" Bulger, the feared South Boston gangster, was captured last night in Santa Monica. Methinks it will be very interesting to see what happens next. He's going to be in court in LA this afternoon, and then (I assume) coming back to Boston some time thereafter. Speculation is rampant as to whether he will clam up, plead guilty, and never be tried, or if at 80+ he will spill his guts. And there is the question of what his partner on the lam, Catherine Greig knew, how they spent 16 years "away," and who helped them -- including whether his brother the fomer Speaker and President of U Mass. William Bulger or their families were involved.
Top Ten List here:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten
Globe overview article here:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/ ... index.html
Lots more coverage, pictures, breaking news, on:
http://www.Boston.com
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:56 pm
by Gob
Not knowing the background of all of this, it sounds like it would make for a great John Grisham novel.
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:09 am
by rubato
That was a fucked-up nasty movie.
Not a great artist.
yrs,
rubato
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:18 am
by Sean
Gob wrote:Not knowing the background of all of this, it sounds like it would make for a great John Grisham novel.
Or a decent Scorsese movie even...
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:33 pm
by rubato
This one along with "Gangs of New York" should never have been made.
yrs,
rubato
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:52 pm
by Guinevere
rubato wrote:That was a fucked-up nasty movie.
Not even as close to as fucked-up and nasty as Whitey Bulger.
And I thought it was a great movie -- it got a lot of it *exactly* right.
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:41 pm
by Lord Jim
Didn't know a whole lot about him but from what I've been reading about the guy the past couple of days, it seems that despite his charismatic reputation in some quarters, the guy is a sadistic, stone cold sociopath....
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:12 pm
by dales
Lord Jim wrote:Didn't know a whole lot about him but from what I've been reading about the guy the past couple of days, it seems that despite his charismatic reputation in some quarters, the guy is a sadistic, stone cold sociopath....
It is not at all unusual for the sadistic quality to be masked by the charismatic.
Many serial killers exhibited such.
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:21 pm
by Joe Guy
You mean like Charley?
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:28 pm
by Lord Jim
Don't get him started...
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:30 pm
by dales
Joe Guy wrote:You mean like Charley?
Re: "The Departed" Returns
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:30 pm
by Long Run
Guinevere wrote:
And I thought it was a great movie -- it got a lot of it *exactly* right.
I thought it was a very good movie as well, if you like that kind of movie.
Seems like this real life guy has been romanticized given that he is murdering thug.