Staring down Whitey Bulger

By PHILIP EIL | January 11, 2012

DO YOU THINK WHITEY IS GOING TO GET HIS HANDS ON A COPY? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? I'd say it's inevitable. I think he's going to look at this and say, "I don't like the way I'm portrayed. That's not me. But at least somebody got the story right." I think that's the best I could hope for.

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