THE G‑MAN AND THE HIT MAN

THE G‑MAN AND THE HIT MAN New Yorker, December 12, 1996 A REPORTER AT LARGE Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a mafioso with a penchant for brutality, extortion, and murder. So what was he doing on the F.B.I.‘s payroll? _______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN IN 1991, the Colombo crime family in Brooklyn went to war with itself: a rebel […]
A MATTER OF DISSONANCE

A MATTER OF DISSONANCE New Yorker, August 26 & September 2, 1996 LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES Arnold Schoenberg’s music was daring, discordant, and enduringly unpopular. U.S.C. is a university famous for its football trophies and film school. Whoever thought the composer’s legacy belonged in a place like that?_______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN SHORT, bald, quick-witted, and irritable, […]
TWILIGHT OF THE GOD?

TWILIGHT OF THE GOD? New Yorker, October 3, 1994 NIGHTS AT THE OPERA James Levine has ruled the Met for over a decade. The general manager, Joseph Volpe, who rose from the carpentry shop, may have ambitions of his own._______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN IT had been a bad week for James Levine. First, Levine, the artistic director […]
A COMPLICATED LIFE

A COMPLICATED LIFE New Yorker, March 11, 1996 ANNALS OF LAW F. Lee Bailey has been in trouble before, but this time he may be heading for jail—partly because of the testimony of Robert Shapiro._______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN AND IRA SILVERMAN ROBERT Shapiro was smirking at F. Lee Bailey. It was the morning of February 2nd […]
REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS

REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS New Yorker, November 16, 1992 ANNALS OF CRIME_______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN AROUND seven o’clock on the night of July 16, 1989, Anthony Gallivan went out drinking. He was joined by his wife, Christine, and another couple. The Gallivans, who were both in their early thirties, were born in Ireland, but at […]