{"id":561,"date":"2010-05-23T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T20:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2016-05-28T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:43:55","slug":"mickey-cohen-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/mickey-cohen-the-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Cohen: The Opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mickey Cohen sweet talks "girlfriend," legendary stripper, Candy Barr. Sunset Strip, 1959. Photograph by Fred Tschantre \/ Los Angeles Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those awaiting my forthcoming book,\u00a0Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.’s Notorious Mobster<\/a><\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0publication date is May 1, 2012.\u00a0I’m happy to shamelessly proclaim: This is a book I’d want to read! Filled <\/em>with provocative revelations about Hollywood, and it’s self-promoting Hollywood mob boss (circa 1940s-76), readers will learn much juicy info about many prominent figures of the mid-20th century (including Shirley Temple’s encounter w\/ the mobster) and how Mickey Cohen, a hyperphobic, asexual<\/em> tough guy, learned to manipulate the media so well,that among other things, he managed to be acknowledged as a bonafide\u00a0ladies’ man—bogus history that still holds.<\/a> The high drama that constitutes the material is so operatic, I would love for it to become one! Check out MickeyCohenBook.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m currently interested in the New York City Ballet’s upcoming\u00a0Call Me Ben<\/a><\/em>, a ballet about Bugsy Siegel, as conceived by Angeleno dancer and choreographer, Melissa Barack.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Siegel, Warren Beatty is Bugsy-obsessed.Examples: He lived in Siegel’s penthouse at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel for years; did not just make Bugsy<\/em>, a movie about the handsome gangster<\/a>, he also married the leading lady; he titled\u00a0Bulworth<\/em>, another of his cinematic efforts, after a Siegel horse; and most tellingly, his first-born son is named Ben. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those awaiting my forthcoming book,\u00a0Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.’s Notorious Mobster,\u00a0publication date is May 1, 2012.\u00a0I’m happy to shamelessly proclaim: This is a book I’d want to read! Filled with provocative revelations about Hollywood, and it’s self-promoting Hollywood mob boss (circa 1940s-76), readers will learn much juicy info about many prominent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[5236,11255,5245,7607,5235,11728],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-thoughts","tag-bugsy-siegel","tag-melissa-barack","tag-mickey-cohen","tag-mickey-cohen-the-life-and-crimes-of-l-a-s-notorious-mobster-by-tere-tereba","tag-tere-tereba","tag-warren-beatty","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\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}