“Oh, come on. If I’ve got to watch my language just because they let a few broads in, I’m going to quit. How the hell can you run a goddamn railroad without swearing?”

-Caz Dolowicz (Tom Pedi), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

“You know the funniest thing about being in prison? Guys pretending they wanna get out. I can’t do any more time, Dougy. So if we get jammed up, we’re holding court on the street.”

-James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), The Town…

“You like money. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.”

-Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), The Killing (1956)

On this date in 1979, acting Bonanno crime family boss Carmine “The Cigar” Galante was murdered at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Galante, whose tenure as boss caused friction with the other New York crime families, had engineered the assassination of several Gambino family members in order to take over their narcotics trafficking business.

By the middle of 1979, the bosses of the other…

Today is the anniversary of the debut of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Murderer and interstate fugitive Thomas Jane Holden was the

first person to appear on the list. As of October 2006, 484 fugitives

(including 7 women) have appeared on the it; 454 have been either

captured or located. The record holder for longest time on the 10 Most

Wanted list is Donald Eugene Webb. Webb, who is wanted in connection

with the murder of a PA police officer in 1980, went on…