{"id":2076,"date":"2013-01-11T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2019-02-04T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:56:58","slug":"mickey-cohen-and-me-beyond-gangster-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/mickey-cohen-and-me-beyond-gangster-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Cohen and me: Beyond &#8220;Gangster Squad&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Gangster Squad<\/em> movie just opened&#8230; In life, cheeky Mickey Cohen called this elite LAPD intelligence unit the &#8220;Stupidity Squad.&#8221; Here are a few of my thoughts in an article <a title=\"Beyond 'Gangster Squad': The Real Mickey Cohen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/bio-now\/beyond-gangster-squad-the-real-mickey-cohen-21090897\" target=\"_blank\">I just wrote for Biography.com<\/a> about the<em> real<\/em> Mickey Cohen, versus pop culture versions. For the unadulterated stories, read my book, <em>Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.&#8217;s Notorious Mobster &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0a factual\u00a0picture, not just of Cohen, but of the entire Los Angeles underworld from Prohibition to 1976.\u00a0I&#8217;m pleased to see that <a title=\"LA Letters Top Eleven Book Picks for 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal\/departures\/landofsunshine\/la-letters\/la-letters-top-11-book-picks-for-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">KCET named it one of the best books of 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JOIN ME AT <a title=\"It\u2019s L.A. Crime Time! We\u2019re talkin\u2019 Mickey Cohen @ Larry Edmunds Bookshop!\" href=\"http:\/\/larryedmunds.com\/its-l-a-crime-time-were-talkin-mickey-cohen-larry-edmunds-bookshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">LARRY EDMUNDS&#8217; VENERABLE BOOKSTORE<\/a>\u00a0 ON JANUARY 16, AT 7:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gangster Squad movie just opened&#8230; In life, cheeky Mickey Cohen called this elite LAPD intelligence unit the &#8220;Stupidity Squad.&#8221; Here are a few of my thoughts in an article I just wrote for Biography.com about the real Mickey Cohen, versus pop culture versions. For the unadulterated stories, read my book, Mickey Cohen: The Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[9926,9886,7557,5245,7607,10375,9767,9794,5235],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-thoughts","tag-biography-com","tag-kcet","tag-los-angeles","tag-mickey-cohen","tag-mickey-cohen-the-life-and-crimes-of-l-a-s-notorious-mobster-by-tere-tereba","tag-mickeycohenbook-com","tag-notorious-mobster","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-tere-tereba","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}