Paperback: Hollywood and the Mob, by Tim Adler

Plenty of Frank, of course. The star's gangster tendencies, fulfilled as a part-time bagman for the mob, were mirrored by Bugsy Siegel, a mobster who wanted to be a star, even paying for his own screen test. In similar vein, Mafia threats during the making of The Godfather ceased when parts were given to mob associates. Sometimes it's hard to tell the movie-makers from the mobsters in this fact-packed, fast-moving book. In a secretly recorded conversation, New Jersey mafioso Joseph "Tin Ear" Sclafani sadly complained that no one in The Sopranos was based on him.