Popular Culture and Media
- In the film Bugsy, Mickey Cohen is portrayed by actor Harvey Keitel. Keitel received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
- In the film So I Married an Axe Murderer, Mickey Cohen is mentioned as being a past inmate at Alcatraz.
- In the film The Black Dahlia, Mickey Cohen is mentioned as being an illegal bookkeeper taking bets on an underground boxing match.
- In the film L.A. Confidential, Mickey Cohen is portrayed by actor Paul Guilfoyle.
- Patrick Fischler plays Mickey Cohen in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire.
- In the upcoming film Gangster Squad, Cohen will be played by Sean Penn.
- In the L.A. Quartet book series by James Ellroy, Cohen plays a major supporting role in the three novels The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular, culture and/or media:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)