The name Meyer Lansky usually conjures up the image of a mobster. But to Joseph Bologna, Lansky was a tragic figure. "He was a brilliant man who could have been anything he wanted, but he chose the wrong road," says Bologna, author (with Richard Krevolin) and director of the Off-Broadway solo play Lansky, starring Mike Burstyn. "Lansky was never convicted of a crime, he never served time in jail, and if he did it was for a misdemeanor. At the end of [Lansky's] life his father [symbolically] sat shiva for him, and they never spoke again. And he was unable to be buried next to his beloved zeda [grandfather], who had moved to Palestine, because the law of return that allows all Jews to be repatriated to Israel was denied him. For the real Lansky, it all might have been a façade -- he may have just wanted to go to Israel to...
- 2/26/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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