Pete Hamill, Author at The Village Voice

CRIME ARCHIVES

Paul Castellano Hit: Capo Loses Mob Primary

“The most popular explanation hinged on the impatience of one John Gotti, a violent little fat man from Howard Beach”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: December 31, 1985

FEATURE ARCHIVES

A Farewell to Machismo

“The macho man should be able to climb into a ring with a hangover and a bad stomach and win the title: he should be able to drink and whore all night and still work a typewriter the next day: and more than anything else, he must always be capable of an erection”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: December 15, 1975

FILM ARCHIVES

The Sylvester Stallone Story: ‘Rocky’ KOs Movie Biz

“I was so goddamned defensive because people had always considered me a rather muscular mono-minded greasy-teeshirt slimy-type neighborhood guinea.”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: November 8, 1976

CRIME ARCHIVES

White Line Fever

“The truth of a time and place is, of course, always illusive; but no historian can tell the story of Miami in the last decade without acknowledging one gigantic fact of municipal life: cocaine.”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: August 26, 1986

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Donald Manes: End of the Road

“I do this for a living,” he said once. “This is my life, not my hobby!” That attitude was at the heart of the system that later destroyed him and will almost certainly survive him.

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: March 21, 1986

COMICS ARCHIVES

The Spirit Strikes Back

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such diverse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: April 21, 1975

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Requiem for a City: Mexico’s Impending Earthquake

“There will be a Mexico when this is finished. But if they only clean up the physical mess, then we are doomed.”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: October 8, 1985

Dance Archives

Farewell to Fosse

“In Fosseville the gaudiest dreams existed side by side with the most vicious betrayals; everything was real but nothing was true”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: November 3, 1987

NYC ARCHIVES

Bernhard Goetz: Notes From Underground

“On December 22, 1984, at about 1:30 in the afternoon, Bernie Goetz boarded a southbound number 2 Seventh Avenue IRT train at 14th Street and his life changed forever. So did the lives of Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Barry Allen.”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: May 12, 1987

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

America in the Eye of the Telescope Site

“We didn't know until later that the Van Nuys cops had received a call from some terrified citizen saying that his brother was going to shoot Kennedy”

by Pete Hamill

Originally published: May 23, 1968

Pete Hamill

“The most popular explanation hinged on the impatience of one John Gotti, a violent little fat man from Howard Beach”

“The macho man should be able to climb into a ring with a hangover and a bad stomach and win the title: he should be able to drink and whore all night and still work a typewrit­er the next day: and more than anything else, he must always be capable of an erection”

“I was so goddamned defensive because people had always considered me a rather muscular mono-minded greasy-teeshirt slimy-type neighborhood guinea.”

“The truth of a time and place is, of course, always illusive; but no historian can tell the story of Miami in the last decade without acknowledging one gigantic fact of municipal life: cocaine.”

“I do this for a living,” he said once. “This is my life, not my hobby!” That attitude was at the heart of the system that later destroyed him and will almost certainly survive him.

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such di­verse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer

“There will be a Mexico when this is finished. But if they only clean up the physical mess, then we are doomed.”

“In Fosseville the gaudiest dreams existed side by side with the most vicious betrayals; everything was real but nothing was true”

“On December 22, 1984, at about 1:30 in the afternoon, Bernie Goetz boarded a southbound number 2 Seventh Avenue IRT train at 14th Street and his life changed forever. So did the lives of Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Barry Allen.”

“We didn't know until later that the Van Nuys cops had received a call from some terrified citizen saying that his brother was going to shoot Kennedy”

“The macho man should be able to climb into a ring with a hangover and a bad stomach and win the title: he should be able to drink and whore all night and still work a typewriter the next day: and more than anything else, he must always be capable of an erection”

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such diverse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer