Death and the 60-Year-Old Maiden
Bulger’s Lesson: To Catch a Gangster, Go After His Buxom Blonde
Nineteen murders, racketeering, loansharking, and an unbroken 16-year streak as a federal lammister before he and his ladypal Catherine Greig were arrested in Santa Monica last week: Boston mob boss and serial killer Whitey Bulger has an alleged C.V. worthy of a freakishly scary Hollywood villain.
So it’s no surprise that he served as the inspiration for Frank Costello, the deadly Irish godfather played by Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorcese’s Oscar-grabbing 2006 movie The Departed. Scorcese’s intelligent if complicated plot boils down to butch but evil Matt Damon and butch but …