But when touring his autobiography “Mickey Cohen in My Own Words,” Cohen had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Although ...

[Related story: Gangster Squad re-shot after Colorado shootings] Los Angeles at the time was being infiltrated by East Coast mobsters, including the brutal, ambitious Mickey Cohen, and O’Mara was ...

“Gangster Squad” is a heavily fictionalized account of longtime LAPD chief William H. Parker’s campaign to prevent Mickey Cohen and other mobsters with East Coast roots from gaining power in ...

“Mickey Cohen was much better looking than that guy,” said Lindo “Jaco” Giacopuzzi, a real-life gangster squad cop from yesteryear. Jaco’s son, John, laughed as he told that story.

Retired Sgt. Lindo Giacopuzzi was part of the Los Angeles Police Department's gangster squad in the 1940s and 1950s and faced off with mobsters like Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen.

Imposing a viselike grip on Los Angeles, thug Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), pontificates to his henchmen: “All things must be burned to the ground—for the insurance money.” So begins the 1940 ...

Imposing a viselike grip on Los Angeles, thug Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), pontificates to his henchmen: “All things must be burned to the ground—for the insurance money.” So begins the 1940’s ...

On February 6, 1950, the house blew up. At 4:15 that morning, a bomb blasted "a ten-foot hole in the front bedroom where Mickey normally slept"; he happened to have been on his wife's side at the ...

WE'VE seen Mickey Cohen, the gangster mentioned in the opening paragraph, in films before; Paul Guilfoyle played him in L.A. Confidential and Harvey Keitel won a best supporting actor nomination ...

There is a really good film to be made about Mickey Cohen. Based on the wonderful actors in "Gangster Squad," I was hoping this would be it. Unfortunately, it falls short, but I’m hopeful that ...

In the opening moments of the Warner Bros. movie “Gangster Squad,” the audience is introduced to the noirishly lit, bulging muscles of Mickey Cohen (finely sculpted by their real owner, Sean ...

LOS ANGELES — To bring the story of mobster Mickey Cohen's reign over post-war Los Angeles to life, the director of "Gangster Squad" employed Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and more than ...