John Gotti elevated the public’s notion of a mob boss to near mythic status. As head of the Gambino crime family in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he cut a colorful and extremely public figure not just in New York City but across the nation.
Tabloid newspapers called him the Teflon Don for his seeming ability to avoid prosecution. He was also known as the Dapper Don, due to his immaculate style, which consisted of double-breasted Italian suits from Brioni, hand-painted silk ties and his halo of perfectly coiffed hair.
It was even rumored he kept a spare suit available to change into during lunch recesses at his trials.
In death as in life, Gotti’s funeral was big and bold. Twenty-two black limousines, 19 flower cars and hundreds of private vehicles crawled the streets of Ozone Park, Howard Beach and sections of Queens.
Tabloid newspapers called him the Teflon Don for his seeming ability to avoid prosecution. He was also known as the Dapper Don, due to his immaculate style, which consisted of double-breasted Italian suits from Brioni, hand-painted silk ties and his halo of perfectly coiffed hair.
It was even rumored he kept a spare suit available to change into during lunch recesses at his trials.
In death as in life, Gotti’s funeral was big and bold. Twenty-two black limousines, 19 flower cars and hundreds of private vehicles crawled the streets of Ozone Park, Howard Beach and sections of Queens.
“Recognizing untruth as a condition of life means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way. A philosophy that risks this would place itself beyond good and evil.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §4 (edited excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §4 (edited excerpt).
“Epicurus called Plato and all of his followers ‘actors,’ because there was ‘nothing genuine about them.’”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §7 (edited excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §7 (edited excerpt).
Shakespeare and Dostoevsky leave you with an insufferable regret: for having been neither a saint nor a criminal, the two best forms of self-destruction
“Beatles Go Home! Have a Haircut!”, “Throw out Beatles!” and other similar hate messages showed up on the banners and flyers around Tokyo Hilton Hotel –where The Beatles stayed for their concert in Japan- in the morning of June 29th 1966. Those banners and flyers were carried by youth members of Dainippon Aikokuto or The Great Japan Patriotic Party, one of Japan’s popular right political party.