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Johnny depp and benedict cumberbatch as the bulger brothers and joel edgerton as john connolly, former fbi. In 2015 the film adaptation of black mass premiered, with. In the spring of 1988, boston globe reporters dick lehr and gerard oneill set out to write the story of two infamous brothers from the insular irish enclave of south boston. This is a first hand account of how whitey bulger, and steve flemmi became part of the fbi as informants, and in turn the fbi became informants for. Excerpt from black mass by dick lehr, gerard oneill, plus. The phrase, which essentially represents a perversion of the catholic mass, lehr. Dick lehr writes ya novel inspired by shawn drumgold case. He served as the globes legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspapers investigative reporting unit. Black mass has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a while, i was looking for a third book about jimmy whitey bulger written by dick lehr, i have whitey and have been trying to find underboss. How the black mass authors watched their book come to life on screen gerard oneill and dick lehr talk what johnny depp was like on set, why shooting their cameo was so darn difficult, and. Lehr, a pulitzer finalist, has also won the hancock and loeb awards. Dick lehr born may 3, 1954 is an american author, journalist and a professor of journalism at boston university. In precise, economical prose, former reporter lehr black mass recounts a suspenseful story inspired by a case he investigated in the 1980s.
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