[UA] Re: female gangsters

[Patrick O'Duffy]

John Tynes wrote:

> >Although with Gangland, I'll probably have to insist on all male PCs.  Female
> >PCs won't make sense in the highly sexist world of the Mafia.
>
> There's always the aging matriarchs who are just as cold-blooded as the
> rest. Forex, Talia Shire in GODFATHER III, playing Pacino's sister.

I'm certainly including such a character as an NPC, and getting one of the players
to control her.  But I can't see there being a female member of a frontline crew.

> I gather a similar character appears in SOPRANOS, but I haven't seen that
> series (no HBO).

Livia, Tony Soprano's mother.  Horrendous person, superbly acted.

And we don't get HBO in this country at all.  Thankfully, some of the free-to-air
stations are buying HBO content and putting them on (with some editing, but not
enough to be really annoying).

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

Some days it's like some bastard nailed a ticket for the bus tour
down to fucking Hell to the front of my brain.

 - Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #26



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