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Blood to run in the streets of Southie

Fake blood, one hopes. In any case, there's a meeting on Nov. 10 (7 p.m. at the Gavin Middle School), at which the "locations department" of the 1,512th movie/TV show about Irish-American thugs shooting up South Boston will explain how they plan to minimize the inconvenience they will cause local residents by, oh, closing up streets so they can film actors getting shot or garroting their enemies or blowing up police cars. Or something like that.

Filming of the cable show with a working title of "War of '04" will take place between Nov. 17 and mid-December "in several Boston neighborhoods," according to a flier about the meeting, which adds: "The show features locations in Boston and portrays a fictional world of Irish-American gangsters struggling for underworld control."

I'm betting one of those locations will be in Charlestown, Boston's other premier location for depictions of Irish thuggism (click to Sam Baltrusis's list and you'll see the "War of '04" may be the Spike TV pilot directed by Walter Hill).

Hey, there are a lot of Irish-Americans living in Westie. How come nobody ever films shoot-em-ups on its gritty streets. For that matter, how come the Real Deal has a whole menu full of wraps named for Italian and Jewish gangsters (like the "Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal" marinated chicken terayaki wrap), but not a single one named for Whitey Bulger?

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If we're going to have TV shows about Irish stereotypes, can we at least have one about Leprechauns???

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Isn't this the pilot?

And later, Journey recorded the title song for the movie version.

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As if this is all the american-irish had to offer. People are getting sick of the same played out movies about Boston Irish mob stories. Please come up with some new material and this is coming from an american-irishman.

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For example, the Black Donnellys on NBC was an awesome TV show (I really hate that they canned it). The Departed was really well done. I haven't gotten around to Mystic River, but I hear it was good.

I could probably take or leave the rest of the dreck out there. If it's a *quality* show/movie then I don't care if it hits on the Irish-American mob scene yet another time. I'm just looking for quality. The problem is when you've got 20+ of these things in the work, they're not all going to be quality for sure.

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I've said this before, is there any chance that the movie industry will discover Asian or Russian mobsters in the US?

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I hope we'll get tired of mobsters. At least the glamorizing portrayals.

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I'll have the "Whitey" (ham on bulgur wheat, not yet toasted).

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If you're going to have a "war of 04" movie set in Boston about rival gangs shooting up the town, you'd be more accurate to make it about Cape Verdeans in Dorchester.

It's about time Hollywood would break out of these old types. Cagney is dead, let's make a new "Public Enemy."

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