“...a fascinating featurette that explores the real-life Boston gang that inspired and influenced the film…”

             -- Los Angeles Times

 

 

“…..includes interviews with director Martin Scorsese, Massachusetts State Police Major (Rtd.) Tom Duffy, Boston Globe reporters Shelley Murphy, Emily Sweeney and Kevin Cullen, state representative/author Brian Wallace, screenwriter William Monahan, Whitey Bulger’s former top lieutenant Kevin Weeks, A Criminal and an Irishman author Patrick Nee, former pastor of St Augustine’s Church Msgr. Thomas McDonnell, and actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg...”

             — DVD Movie Guide

 

 

“Unless you watch “Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and The Departed,” you might not know Frank Costello, the gangster played by Jack Nicholson, takes his lead from James “Whitey” Bulger, who ran South Boston for decades. The fascinating feature brings in investigators, reporters and even one of Bulger’s lieutenants to talk about the crime boss – still on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted list – and the insularity of his fiefdom.”

             -- The Virginian-Pilot

                 Feb. 18, 2007

 

 

 

SPJ member goes Hollywood

Quill Magazine, April 2007

 

 

Members On The Move

NLGJA Outlook, June 2007

“Stranger Than Fiction:

The True Story of Whitey Bulger,

Southie, and The Departed”

 

Featured on The Departed 2-disc DVD