In the end Jerome said that Epstein became the DA of Brooklyn and that the mob called him "The most feared man in Brooklyn". Who is the real life Epstein? Does any one have a clue? Thanks.
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It could be Thomas Dewy or Rudolph Giuliani.
shareDewey had already run for President by 1945 and was the Governor of New York, and Giuliani was no contemporary of Neil Simon, as he was only 1 year old at the time.
shareI assume this was a fictious character in Neil Simon's army days. No person acting like this in the army would have ever been allowed to act like that. They would have been placed in the stockade.
Besides that, who ever the actor was gave one of the worst performances I have ever seen in a movie. The only drawback in the movie, in my opinion.
It wasn't great, but I thought he did a credible job. The whole "join the fight, any fight" speech was his best scene.
sharewho ever the actor was gave one of the worst performances I have ever seen in a movie. The only drawback in the movie, in my opinion
I was wondering the same thing and I tried to research the real-life "Epstein" character years ago. I presumed the name was fictitious but a prominent NYC District Attorney feared by organized crime should have been fairly easy to track down. So I thought. No one name really jumped out.
He might have been attorney Roy Cohn (about the right age) and known and feared for his aggressive anti-communist campaigns with Senator McCarthy. As a side note, he was suspected towards the end of his life of being gay (and died from AIDS).
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