mickey spillane
Mickey Spillane died Saturday after falling from a sixth-floor apartment in Hell's Kitchen in New York.Robert "Bobby" Spillane, 45, was discovered by the lawyer's brother, Michael, 46, about 8:00 on the sidewalk in his Eighth Avenue apartment building, police sources and eyewitnesses told the New York Post.Spillane was leaning on the screen, which yielded, and fell through the window, his uncle said James McManus."Michael came to Starbucks (the coffee subsidiaries), and this morning, and crossed the street and saw Robert lying," witness John, who directs the Cosmic Diner nearby, "he said."He was the one who called 911, you know?" It's so sad. "Spillane also Survive wife Heather."Michael saw crossing the street, you know I panicked, it was a shock. It is so sad," said Judith, 50, a waitress at the restaurant.
"Rest in peace, Robert" read a sign that Spillane friends, with flowers in a phone booth outside the Cosmic Diner.Spillane played the award-winning television series "NYPD Blue," "Law & Order" and "Rescue Me" and had a small role in the 1999 "Thomas Crown Affair" movie remake starring Pierce Brosnan.The youngest of three children, he was the son of Mickey Spillane, an Irish-American gangster who ran the club the "Westies" gang decades before the Irish took over the more violent gangsters.The gangster, who is "the last gentleman gangsters", as opposed to the violent "Westies" who succeeded him, was gunned down in 1977, when Bobby Spillane was only 12 years old.In an interview in the Post, Steve Dunleavy, Spillane remembers his father's murder."I was a child. We lived in Woodside (Queens). Someone rang the bell at the door. It was Friday the 13th, 1977," he said. His father opened the door and was shot in a hail of bullets.Bobby grew up in the kitchen of the family's huge "Hell's apartment and play" All dolle up - like the weight of the cross-dressing gangster in the muscles of the gay bars of Greenwich Village in the years 1960 - 2006, was opened in the neighborhood's Acorn Theatre.
"Rest in peace, Robert" read a sign that Spillane friends, with flowers in a phone booth outside the Cosmic Diner.Spillane played the award-winning television series "NYPD Blue," "Law & Order" and "Rescue Me" and had a small role in the 1999 "Thomas Crown Affair" movie remake starring Pierce Brosnan.The youngest of three children, he was the son of Mickey Spillane, an Irish-American gangster who ran the club the "Westies" gang decades before the Irish took over the more violent gangsters.The gangster, who is "the last gentleman gangsters", as opposed to the violent "Westies" who succeeded him, was gunned down in 1977, when Bobby Spillane was only 12 years old.In an interview in the Post, Steve Dunleavy, Spillane remembers his father's murder."I was a child. We lived in Woodside (Queens). Someone rang the bell at the door. It was Friday the 13th, 1977," he said. His father opened the door and was shot in a hail of bullets.Bobby grew up in the kitchen of the family's huge "Hell's apartment and play" All dolle up - like the weight of the cross-dressing gangster in the muscles of the gay bars of Greenwich Village in the years 1960 - 2006, was opened in the neighborhood's Acorn Theatre.
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