Junior Gotti On Why He Authored Tell-All Book: I Have The Right To Write Our Own History

Linda Stasi at the New York Daily News offers a piece on why John "Junior' Gotti wrote a tell-all book.

For decades, John A. (Junior) Gotti has kept silent as mobsters, journalists and even hated turncoats spun tales about his notorious family.

No more.

The son of the late “Dapper Don” John Gotti said he decided to write his memoir — despite the protests of his beloved mother — to set the record straight.

“Our privacy has been invaded more than most families’ due to the selfishness of my father and I, but I can’t keep sitting back and letting this happen,” Gotti, 50, told the Daily News. “At some time you gotta roll up your sleeves and do what’s right.”

The riveting book, “Shadow of My Father,” which will be out Monday as an e-book, is Gotti’s firsthand account of “the life” — how his mobster father lived it as the boss of the Gambino crime family, and how he managed to break away from it.  

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/exclusive-john-junior-gotti-wrote-book-article-1.2082855

Why Charles Dickens Is Still Relevant: 'Great Expectations' On PBS' Masterpiece Sunday Evening

 

PBS offers a short video on the showing of Great Expectations on PBS' Masterpiece Sunday night.

You can watch the video via the below link:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2216835068/

You can also read Linda Stasi's New York Post review via the below link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/great_stuff_OgrtKGv40Nay6sPzPjSviK

Note: I've recently watched and enjoyed Masterpiece's adaptation of Dickens' Little Dorritt on Comcast's On Demand. I've also recently watched and enjoyed Masterpiece's adaptations of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorritt and Bleak House.      

Take The Lead: Encore's 'The Take' Is A Four-Star TV Crime Series

Linda Stasi at the New York Post rates the new crime series on cable a four-star series.

If you missed the first episode of Encore’s original miniseries, “The Take,” then be sure to order it up on OnDemand before you watch tonight’s knock-you-on-your-butt two-part episode.

The series from Martina Cole’s best-selling crime thriller centers around an East End London crime family in the 1980s and it’s every bit as good as “The Sopranos” was in its prime — which was all the time.

You can read the rest of Linda Stasi's piece via the below link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/take_the_lead_01il9DYFAR9yWsX5dpbrkN

I saw the first episode of The Take and I liked it. I plan to catch the second episode tonight, or I'll catch it later Comcast's On Demand.

Linda Stasi compared the British crime series to The Sopranos, but although Goodfellas was a film, not a TV series, I see The Take as more of a British version of Martin Scorsese's great crime film.

Tom Hardy (seen in the above photo) portrays a half-crazed British hood similar to Joe Pesci's wild and violent character Tommy in Goodfellas. I also liked Brian Cox as the crime boss. The character is like a British Paulie, the mob captain portrayed by Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas.

I look forward to watching the rest of this excellent crime series.