A Legend In His Own Minefield

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The Boy Who Wore the Hell Outta Sports Coats

The Boy Who Wore the Hell Outta Sports Coats

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John Mendelssohn
Sep 24, 2010
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I have never spoken of this before, but there's no use continuing to pretend that I wasn't briefly involved in organized crime when I was four years old and living with my parents near what was later renamed Los Angeles International Airport, but then called Ballona Creek Field. In those days, parents weren’t so obsessive about exposing their children t…

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