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Like a mob hit – the passing of a generation of movie gangsters

James Caan was so persuasive as "Sonny" Corleone in The Godfather, that he got turned down when he tried to join a country club because its members thought that he, like his character, was a "made man."

Funerals for Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Paul Herman, and Tony Sirico — all in a few weeks. It’s the passing of a generation of Hollywood’s most celebrated “mobsters.”

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