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WB Adapting 'Gangster Squad' LA Times Series
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It looks like the desperate newspaper industry continues to whore itself out to Hollywood, as Warner Brothers has aquired the rights to an L.A. Times seven parts series "Tales From the Gangster Squad." It chronicles the special sect of the LAPD formed in 1946 whose main objective was to keep the East Coast Mafia, which was engaging in shootouts at will, out of the city. Paul Lieberman wrote the articles for the Times, that concluded in Saturday's paper. In 1992, after Lieberman ran a piece on the LAPD's Organized Crime Intelligence Division only to receive a call a few days later ...
Go Inside The Gangster Squad
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Go Inside The Gangster Squad Every since the Cold War ended we've struggled to replace Russians as the token bad guys, and amid all the replacements that have cropped up, the strangest one has to be the LAPD. It seems like half the cop movies that come out in a given yeaer focus on corruption within the police department, from period noirs like L.A. Confidential to something like Training Day . Warner Bros. is heading into production on one of the latest LAPD stories, but it seems to have two key differences: it's a true story, and things might not be as black-and-white as they seem. Paul Lieberman's series of articles in the L.A. Times, "Tales From The ...
