'It has been 469 days since I was first arrested ... but the Department of Justice has never told me what crime I committed.'
Tony Chan, seeker of the late Nina Wang 's HK$100...
'It has been 469 days since I was first arrested ... but the Department of Justice has never told me what crime I committed.'
Tony Chan, seeker of the late Nina Wang 's HK$100...
Joaquin Garcia could not be more obvious. At 1.93 metres and weighing in at 180kg, there's no missing the man. In motion, he's a slow-moving shambles: he fills the pavement, listing heavily from...
It was inevitable that the Yes Men would pull a prank at the premiere for their new film, The Yes Men Fix the World, at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.
Making Jack Falcone
by Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia (with Michael Levin)
Simon & Schuster HK$202
Job description: Directors love the idea of the undercover cop risking life and limb to get the dirt on the dirtbags - the danger, the frisson, the threat of exposure. It's a great way to keep...
Job description: Nothing gets the tension crackling like an unlikely bond between an arch-villain and a good guy. We sit in our seats enthralled by this strangest of kinships, waiting in...
The Sopranos is not the only drama to show the gritty, unglamorous side of life in the mafia. Several movies have done the same, including Donnie Brasco (Pearl, 9.30pm).
FOUR men aged between 37 and 43 have been charged with bookmaking after a raid on a Mongkok flat. Betting slips with a value of $1.26 million were seized.
A rock solid English director gives up safe frills-and-flowers escapades to take on down-and-out Brooklyn mobsters? Fuggedaboudit!
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