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Recent Examples of button manBest button man in the biz.—Craig Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2021
The all-star cast for the limited series includes Kevin Hart as Chicken Man, the organizer of the party, Taraji P. Henson as his right hand woman Vivian Thomas, Samuel L. Jackson as gangster Frank Moten, and Don Cheadle as J.D. Hudson, the cop trying to figure out who really orchestrated the crime.
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Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
20 June 2025
Creature With the Atom Brain sees a gangster force a German scientist to reanimate the dead with atomic radiation in order to pull off crimes (recalling both Frankenstein and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, films that fit neatly alongside the zombie genre).
Sir Jimmy Crystal gives deeply unsettling vibes from the get-go, and while his bizarre gang of hoodlums do save Spike’s life, it’s implied that Spike may have wandered into a much worse situation.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
Critics say police gave up when the rioting erupted in 1992, letting big chunks of the city burn while looters and hoodlums ruled.
And for them, solving murders, consorting with mobsters, and adopting aliases all turn out to be more life-affirming—not to mention entertaining—than chair yoga and a salt-free diet.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
Roe, an African American mobster, ran a policy wheel that offered prize money to players who picked the right sequence of random numbers.
As the 133 cardinals who voted during the papal conclave became more known to the public in recent days, enjoying a brief bout of internet fame, some close watchers began to notice that one looked shockingly similar to a television mafioso.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
Football folk have memories that would impress elephants and a mafioso’s capacity for holding grudges.
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