My other idea of the moment is tight black pants with heals and a white button up shirt with a fitted jacket or seater over it.
Friday, December 21, 2007
Costume Idea #2
My other idea of the moment is tight black pants with heals and a white button up shirt with a fitted jacket or seater over it.
Costume Idea #1
I'm thinking from most of the photos I've seem, that a fitted black dress would be a very good idea for Francesca. I think she would also wear a jacket or professional looking blouse over it. At first I was thinking stiletto heals, but also considering the fact that Francesca is a women of power, she might wear a more professional shoe like a pump. This is just one costume idea though.
Women In the Mafia Growing
Mob Ladies: Women's Roles in the Italian Mafia Are Growing
"Love, love and love" are no longer enough for Italian women.
In Italy, the first-ever study on women in Italian organized crime reveals that women are rising up the ranks to leadership positions. This is both because the mafia is changing, and women are changing the mafia.
From la dolce vita, the sweet life, to the malavita, the underworld, the growing presence of women is being felt everywhere in Italy.
Until recently, this was almost unthinkable. The first woman arrested for "criminal association" was just five years ago, in 1999. Police have known that women play a supporting role within the mafia: As mothers, wives, and daughters, they've carried out minor tasks.
Filling in for locked up hubbies
Occasionally, women have even stepped in to run things temporarily when their men have been jailed or murdered.
But a new study shows that women within the mafia are rising through the ranks and becoming bosses in their own right. And it says that the Italian judicial system should start paying closer attention.
Ernesto Savona of the Catholic University of Milan, one of the report’s authors, says criminal organizations are becoming more appealing to women. "Criminal organizations are changing. They’re producing less violence. Less people are killed in Palermo and Columbia and in others in proportion to how many were killed before. They’re transforming the hierarchical organization into a more flexible one. That means you’ll get more women having managerial roles. We call them 'sweet criminal organizations'," he told Deutsche Welle.
From hard crime to financial crime
As underworld activities have shifted to financial crimes, violence has dropped. Organizations have also become less centralized.
"That you find women having managerial roles in small criminal organization shows that it's very flexible and not hierarchical," Savona explains. "Especially juvenile gangs. Sometimes you find a woman who has the leadership in the organization."
The evolution of women in the criminal world is exactly the same as that of women in the business world.
Pierluigi Vigna, who heads up Italy’s national anti-mafia office, says that with politically motivated crimes, women are just as willing to kill as men. Mafia women, however, aren’t as willing when it comes to business. The researchers say that’s because women find murder for profit harder to justify. And their roles reflect this difference in values.
"They’re mainly found in areas that require a certain finesse," Vigna explains, "like money laundering rather than murder."
While there are no statistics on the exact number of women in the Italian mafia, the researchers say that more women in key positions are being arrested. In April, a 28-year-old Sicilian woman was found guilty of 50 percent ownership of a thriving underworld business.
This may not be this kind of emancipation feminists had in mind, but it does show that women in Italy need to be taken seriously in all facets of life.
Megan Williams (DW-RADIO)
"Love, love and love" are no longer enough for Italian women.
In Italy, the first-ever study on women in Italian organized crime reveals that women are rising up the ranks to leadership positions. This is both because the mafia is changing, and women are changing the mafia.
From la dolce vita, the sweet life, to the malavita, the underworld, the growing presence of women is being felt everywhere in Italy.
Until recently, this was almost unthinkable. The first woman arrested for "criminal association" was just five years ago, in 1999. Police have known that women play a supporting role within the mafia: As mothers, wives, and daughters, they've carried out minor tasks.
Filling in for locked up hubbies
Occasionally, women have even stepped in to run things temporarily when their men have been jailed or murdered.
But a new study shows that women within the mafia are rising through the ranks and becoming bosses in their own right. And it says that the Italian judicial system should start paying closer attention.
Ernesto Savona of the Catholic University of Milan, one of the report’s authors, says criminal organizations are becoming more appealing to women. "Criminal organizations are changing. They’re producing less violence. Less people are killed in Palermo and Columbia and in others in proportion to how many were killed before. They’re transforming the hierarchical organization into a more flexible one. That means you’ll get more women having managerial roles. We call them 'sweet criminal organizations'," he told Deutsche Welle.
From hard crime to financial crime
As underworld activities have shifted to financial crimes, violence has dropped. Organizations have also become less centralized.
"That you find women having managerial roles in small criminal organization shows that it's very flexible and not hierarchical," Savona explains. "Especially juvenile gangs. Sometimes you find a woman who has the leadership in the organization."
The evolution of women in the criminal world is exactly the same as that of women in the business world.
Pierluigi Vigna, who heads up Italy’s national anti-mafia office, says that with politically motivated crimes, women are just as willing to kill as men. Mafia women, however, aren’t as willing when it comes to business. The researchers say that’s because women find murder for profit harder to justify. And their roles reflect this difference in values.
"They’re mainly found in areas that require a certain finesse," Vigna explains, "like money laundering rather than murder."
While there are no statistics on the exact number of women in the Italian mafia, the researchers say that more women in key positions are being arrested. In April, a 28-year-old Sicilian woman was found guilty of 50 percent ownership of a thriving underworld business.
This may not be this kind of emancipation feminists had in mind, but it does show that women in Italy need to be taken seriously in all facets of life.
Megan Williams (DW-RADIO)
Images of Powerful italian Women
And so, by June 15, when Licciardi was arrested near Naples, the 50-year-old matriarch apparently had risen high enough on the crime pecking order to make it into Italy's dreaded list of 30 most-wanted criminals.
Marina Berlusconi, who is chairman of the Berlusconi family’s Fininvest empire and head of Italy’s largest publishing group Mondadori, claimed 33rd place in the US business magazine’s list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Nancy Pelosi is a Democratic Congresswoman from California, and the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. She comes from a family steeped in politics. At age 7, she stood beside her father when he was sworn in as Baltimore's first Italian-American Mayor in 1947. Democratic to the bone, the D'Alesandro family never moved out of the city's working-class Little Italy neighborhood. Pelosi's mother had dropped out of law school to marry, but she became a leader at the local Democratic Women's Club. Pelosi's brother, Tommy D'Alesandro III, followed in their father's footsteps and was Mayor of Baltimore from 1967-71.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Initial Thoughts
I'm thinking this girl had every reason to kill the Don. The only problem is like Palermo says, now that he's dead she will never merge the two families together.
Francesca is genuine in her disappointment of the Dons death. I think she is just too caught up in herself and her family to be concerned with it at this moment in time. For one thing, how is she going to become the head of two families? What is her purpse in even being at this gather now that he's gone, or for that matter... do these two families get along? According to history one mafia family usually claims jurisdiction over a certain area or town. Are they from different towns? Or maybe they are feuding families.
Reasons why she might have killed the Don include her will to run two families and merge together a larger body of people at her beckon call, also to be more powerful in the relationship. Perhaps he was only supposed to be sick, and not actually die.
Francesca is genuine in her disappointment of the Dons death. I think she is just too caught up in herself and her family to be concerned with it at this moment in time. For one thing, how is she going to become the head of two families? What is her purpse in even being at this gather now that he's gone, or for that matter... do these two families get along? According to history one mafia family usually claims jurisdiction over a certain area or town. Are they from different towns? Or maybe they are feuding families.
Reasons why she might have killed the Don include her will to run two families and merge together a larger body of people at her beckon call, also to be more powerful in the relationship. Perhaps he was only supposed to be sick, and not actually die.
Information on Specific Gangs in St. Louis
I found some breakdowns of specific crimes and situations that the different gangs in St. Louis were known for. It was pretty interesting, and I had no idea that Italian crime moved up here from New Orleans, but I guess then again, why would I know that. here is the link: http://americanmafia.com/Cities/St_Louis.html
The Ten Comandaments
In November 2007 Sicilian police reported to have found a list of "Ten Commandments" in the hideout of mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Similar to the Biblical Ten Commandments, they are thought to be a guideline on how to be a good mobster. The commandments are as follows:[22]
1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
Background on the Mafia or Cosa Nostra
The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States and in Australia[1] during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration (see also Italian diaspora). In North America, the Mafia often refers to Italian organized crime in general, rather than just traditional Sicilian organized crime. According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The Mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory..."[2]
The Sicilian Cosa Nostra is a loose confederation of about one hundred Mafia groups, also called cosche or families, each of which claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city, though without ever fully conquering and legitimizing its monopoly of violence. For many years, the power apparatuses of the single families were the sole ruling bodies within the two associations, and they have remained the real centers of power even after superordinate bodies were created in the Cosa Nostra beginning in the late 1950s (the Sicilian Mafia Commission).[3]
Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."[4]
Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honour, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honourable, noble, generous.[5][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
The Sicilian Cosa Nostra is a loose confederation of about one hundred Mafia groups, also called cosche or families, each of which claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighborhood of a larger city, though without ever fully conquering and legitimizing its monopoly of violence. For many years, the power apparatuses of the single families were the sole ruling bodies within the two associations, and they have remained the real centers of power even after superordinate bodies were created in the Cosa Nostra beginning in the late 1950s (the Sicilian Mafia Commission).[3]
Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."[4]
Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honour, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honourable, noble, generous.[5][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
Words I didn't really understand but now I do
Page 4
"And it will be my fiance's CAPITAL that will start it."
CAPITAL: the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
Page 9
"As CONSIGLIERE, you will move up now and become the new Don."
CONSIGLIERE: a member of a criminal organization or syndicate who serves as an adviser to the leader.
Page 11
"That women's a mortadell."
MORTADELLA?: a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked.
"And it will be my fiance's CAPITAL that will start it."
CAPITAL: the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.
Page 9
"As CONSIGLIERE, you will move up now and become the new Don."
CONSIGLIERE: a member of a criminal organization or syndicate who serves as an adviser to the leader.
Page 11
"That women's a mortadell."
MORTADELLA?: a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked.
Introduction
I just got this role today. This is the character breakdown version of Francesca.
FRANCESCA: the beautiful, manipulative head of the Delorossa crime family, she is also Don Vincenzo's girlfriend, having displaced his late wife while she was still living; she is anxious to merge her crime family with the Maranzano crime family.
FRANCESCA: the beautiful, manipulative head of the Delorossa crime family, she is also Don Vincenzo's girlfriend, having displaced his late wife while she was still living; she is anxious to merge her crime family with the Maranzano crime family.
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