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Everyone’s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.

Last Saturday, I picked up a slightly tattered copy of an old crime biography, Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld, at one of those sidewalk libraries.

Published in 1974, the year after mob boss Costello died at the age of 82, the book was written by his long-time lawyer George Wolf with co-writer Joseph Dimona.

As lawyer books go, it wasn’t bad. Lots of first-hand anecdotes. Not too much ax-grinding. And a reasonably clear re-telling of an oft-told saga about what they used to call “The Syndicate,” from tawdry roots in New York’s Italian ghettos, through the Italo-Jewish alliance of bootlegging gangs, to political machinations, over-throw of the old Sicilian crime lords, Murder Inc., Bugsy Siegel, Las Vegas, the Kefauver hearings and beyond.

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The TV show 21 Jump Street aired on Fox from 1987 to 1991. The series focused on a team of undercover police officers who investigated crimes affecting young people. Which cast member has the highest net worth today? Here’s what we know.

Dustin Nguyen The cast of ’21 Jump Street’ in 1987 | Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Net worth: $3 million

Dustin Nguyen played Harry Truman Ioki. As of this writing, Nguyen has an estimated net worth of $3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. After 21 Jump Street, he appeared in Heaven and Earth (1993), Vanishing Son (1995), and Jag (2003).

Richard Grieco Richard Grieco | Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images

Net worth: $4 million

Richard Grieco played Dennis Booker. As of this writing, Grieco has an estimated net worth of $4 million. After 21 Jump Street, he appeared in Booker (1989–1990), Mobsters (1991), Veronica Mars (2006–2007), and 22 Jump Street (2014).

Grieco says he and co-star Johnny Depp had a “rivalry.

Patrick Dempsey is in talks with Spyglass to star in “Thanksgiving,” multiple media outlets have reported.

Yes, that’s Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving,” a violent slasher film based on the fake trailer from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s double feature “Grindhouse” from 16 years ago.

Chatter has existed about turning the jokey trailer into an actual movie, with Roth having written a screenplay over a dozen years ago. Fantasy became fact when Spyglass stepped in late last year to finance the picture, with shooting to begin in Toronto next month.

While plot details are mostly concealed, it is believed that Dempsey would play a small-town sheriff in Massachusetts who must fend off a holiday-specific murder spree.

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Notorious mobster Al Capone was a larger than life bootlegger, racketeer, killer and organized crime boss in the first half of the 20th century, who has been portrayed on big-screen and small for seven decades. Here is a look at the actors who took on the challenge. And, if you’re curious, here is archival footage of Scarface himself.

Rod Steiger – “Al Capone” (1959) • Rod Steiger played Capone with deliberate showiness, from the roar of his voice to the tilt of hid fedora. Although he won a Laurel Award for his performance, Capone’s sister wasn’t crazy about the film – she sued the filmmakers for $10 million for invasion of privacy because they failed to get permission from the Capone estate to make it. The suit was eventually dismissed. Check out Steiger as Capone in a clip here.

Neville Brand – “The George Raft Story” (1961) • Although Neville Brand had an extensive resume...

I’ve got an entertaining fan-made short film here for you to watch today that reimagines the Super Mario Bros. and dark comedic parody of The Sopranos. It’s a very dark take on Mario and Luigi as it imagines the classic HBO series being set in the Mushroom Kingdom instead of New Jersey.

It’s an incredibly well-executed short and the impressions of the actors from The Sopranos like James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli. The performances from Max Koch and Andy Dispensa help sell this short. This is the brief description of the short that was released:

Two Italians conduct day to day activities in their normal lives as Mobsters; it's all fun until someone slips up.

Super Soprano Bros. was written and directed by Ryan Constantino. I hope you enjoy it, but before you watch it, I also should warn you that the series is filled with vulgar Sopranos-style language.

Patrick Dempsey has been in the spotlight for more than 30 years now, but we still can't get over how handsome he is. The 50-year-old actor first stole hearts with his roles in movies like Can't Buy Me Love, Mobsters, and Loverboy, but it wasn't until he became Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy that our hearts really started pumping. Aside from his impressive acting career, Patrick is a devoted family man; he's been married to his wife, Jillian Fink, since 1999 (they briefly split last year), and is father to kids Talula, Sullivan, and Darby. Cheers to many more years of being able to stare into those McDreamy eyes!

We have a packed Horror Highlights today! Heidi Moore’s Dolly Deadly creeps its way onto Blu-ray on August 23rd. Also: release details for Like a Bat Outta Hell, The Cursed, and A Haunting at the Park Hotel, as well as home media info for Flytrap, Dark Cove, and Dam Sharks!

Dolly Deadly Blu-ray Release Announced and Cover Artwork Revealed: Press Release: “Dolly Deadly is a feature film of the psychological horror/revenge genre written by Heidi Moore and Cassandra Sechler. It’s sure to be a little creepy, a bit silly, and a lot of fun (think Troma meets John Waters).

The story of Dolly Deadly revolves around the warped psychology of a tormented young boy who can only relate to his doll collection, and the only relief from the pain in his life comes with slaughtering those he has learned to hate the most. Everyone in his trailer park!

"Boardwalk Empire" came to an end tonight. I spoke at length with creator Terence Winter, and I have a review of the finale coming up just as soon as I think about the things I want in life, then imagine myself in a dress... "What are you in the end, anyway?" "I'm what I need to be." "How's that make you anything at all? -The Commodore & Nucky And so "Boardwalk Empire" died as it lived: with a tightly-plotted installment that paid off many storylines from both the final season and the entire series, and one where the most memorable, powerful scene involved someone other than Nucky Thompson. Although the Nucky material was pretty damn powerful and satisfying in its own right. The most powerful scene in question: Al Capone telling his son about his impending prison sentence, and the boy not only offering to help his dad, but putting up...

Stars: Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault | Written by Christian Piers Betley | Directed by Roger Christian

Whereas the name Christian Slater once meant a sign of a great movie (I’m thinking of the likes of Heathers, Mobsters, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and his magnum opus, Pump Up the Volume), today it tends to mean low-budget, badly scripted straight to DVD fodder. The last Slater film I watched, Sofia, was a bit of a mess. The film could have been an action-packed espionage thriller, but instead the film saw both actor and director seemingly out of their depth – with Slater literally trying to “act” like a tough guy without backing it up with any actual physicality. So I approached Stranded with a bit of trepidation, even moreso given that director Roger Christian was responsible for the atrocity that was Battlefield Earth…

Making it’s world premiere here in the UK,...

Directed by John Hillcoat

Written by Nick Cave, from the book by Matt Bondurant

featuring Tom Hardy, Shia LeBoeuf, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska

Lawless is not the gritty, realistic, slice-of-America’s-criminal-history for which you might have been hoping; instead it is gloriously overdone, cheesy, trite, and completely meaningless.

I’m beginning to think Shia LeBoeuf is not a very good actor. I really liked him the first time I saw him in anything, which I think was that Nickelodeon show Even Stevens (don’t ask), and I said, “that kid is pretty good.” Then he ended up making really huge blockbustery type films with absolutely no meaning and really horrible dialogue like Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Stupid Alien Crystal Skull Things. I thought, before I saw Lawless, that maybe he just picks really shitty movies that don’t show how good of an actor he is.

Marvel's Thor may have Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as Odin, but could Hopkins powerbomb a guy through a table like pro wrestler "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash, who will be playing the ruler of Asgard in The Asylum's mockbuster Almighty Thor? Advantage: The Asylum.

Filming is under way on the Almighty Thor under the direction of Chris Ray, his second stint at the helm of an Asylum production following Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus, which, by the way, arrives on DVD shelves and inside Redboxes this Tuesday.

When the demon god Loki destroys the fortress of Valhalla and steals the Hammer of Invincibility, only the young hero Thor can protect Earth from Armageddon.

Relative newcomer Cody Deal stars in the title role. Looking him up on IMDb reveals he looks the part far more than "Home Improvement" kid grown up Zachery Ty Bryan did when he was horribly miscast as an...

There’s no end of blogging about wrong-headed Oscar wins. The litany of complaints about “Shakespeare in Love” winning over “Saving Private Ryan,” or “Forrest Gump” over “Pulp Fiction,” or “The Greatest Show on Earth” over any of the other nominees that year, not to mention how Gwyneth Paltrow won over Cate Blanchett for “Shakespeare,” or Costner over Scorsese for “Dances with Wolves.”

Sometimes, though, the win is totally justified; it’s the body of work after the win that drags the winner down, and makes you wonder if maybe the Oscar win wasn’t just some sort of one-trick point, a gold-plated piece of lightning in a bottle. That’s why there’s no quibbling in this post about the quality of the performances, but rather about everything that came afterwards.

With the 2009 nominations coming out tomorrow, and with plenty of nitpicking sure to abound, I’m presenting seven...