Posted on 04/20/2008 6:23:00 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column. I believe he's on vacation all week from the radio show
Howie column ping
Marathon Monday: Time to run ... away
By Howie Carr | Sunday, April 20, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
My dream is finally coming true.
Tomorrow, when the Boston Marathon turns much of the region into one gigantic traffic jam, I will be serenely unaffected.
I will be in Florida.
Yes, I understand that the Marathon is a world-class event, but you know, how many years of reflected glory can one man bask in?
As Ronald Reagan might have put it, once you’ve seen one anorexic Beautiful Person openly squatting to do “number two” in somebody’s front yard in Hopkinton, you’ve seen them all. Once you’ve inhaled the fragrant aroma of an overturned porta-potty on Comm Ave, or seen one drunken Boston College coed handcuffed to a lamppost outside Mary Ann’s and covered with vomit, you’ve seen - and smelled - them all.
I’ve been a part of Marathon Monday for so many years. The event was saved, after all, by the thoroughly corrupt John Hancock Insurance Co., since sold to foreigners by the local greedheads who took all the bows for crippling the 617 and 781 area codes one day a year. My connection is that I was there, in federal court, when the state rep whom John Hancock bribed with Super Bowl tickets (as well as 121 other assorted gifts) was sentenced to prison.
You can’t get much closer to the true meaning of the modern-day Boston Marathon than that, unless maybe you’re a Kenyan.
If only my entire family had been able to flee the impending annual disaster along with me. But it was not to be, and I’ve never really been a subscriber to that whole women-and-children-first thing anyway. When it comes to escaping the Marathon, it’s every man for himself. My 13-year-old daughter remains behind, a hostage to Marathon greed. She will spend tonight at a friend’s house about a mile from where we live.
The problem is, to walk home tomorrow, Charlotte will have to cross the Marathon route. And that is not permitted. That is why the local constabulary will be out in force collecting detail pay tomorrow to prevent taxpayers from using their own roads, so that non-residents, and in many cases non-Americans, can halt commerce and tie up traffic to a fare-thee-well in order to pocket a few shekels. Tough luck, Charlotte.
“What happens if I’m late?” she asked me as I threw clothes into a suitcase before going on the lam. “Why do I have to stand on the other side of Route 16 for hours?”
I looked at her and repeated those familiar words that Marathon apologists always use whenever anyone complains about being hassled for no good reason:
“That’s YOUR problem!”
No joke, that’s their answer to every complaint. You say you’re sick and they deliver your oxygen every Monday and you can’t get another delivery for a whole week?
That’s YOUR problem!
You’re not a hack, you don’t have Patriots [team stats] Day off, and you’re going to lose a whole day of sales calls in MetroWest, and who’s going to pay you for your lost time?
That’s YOUR problem!
You need to get to the post office, which will be open tomorrow, but every street is blocked off by surly cops and drunk college boys?
That’s YOUR problem!
What’s almost as irritating is the fact that we’re all supposed to be so darn happy about it. This boondoggle is as disruptive as any hurricane or blizzard, but at least you don’t have to pretend to be giddy about a weather emergency. This weekend, when emaciated jerks with trust funds dart out in front of your car against the light, you’re supposed to give them a nice wave and think, “They’re bringing so much money to Boston.”
I was printing up my JetBlue [JBLU] boarding passes to West Palm, but Charlotte kept asking me stupid questionslike: Why can’t they run it on a weekend? And of course the ultimate question that I used to ask myself: Why me? Why are these fools bothering me?
Before heading off to Logan, I could think of only one response for the kid when she asked the why-me question, and you know what my answer was.
That’s YOUR problem!
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1088320
>>you don’t have Patriots [team stats] Day off
uh, whomever does the Herald website—there is no need to
do a link to the Patriots’ team stats as the holiday is
NOT named after the football team. Unless they were just being a wiseass :)
Okay, I’m in California, and never been to either event in that fine city, but is there any chance Howie might have confused Boston Marathon Monday with St. Pat’s?
Yup, same thing—also happens if Red Sox or Patriots have a victory riot—er, parade. (What if it happens again this
year with the Celts or, hard to believe, the Bruins?) :)
He’ll be in FL... but his lawn will still be pee’d on.
I'll never forget seeing, during a week-long trip that Mrs F. & I made to Beantown, the following two things, in broad daylight, in the vicinity of Center Plaza where Cambridge becomes Tremont:
My business involves a lot of driving in and around the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Those two scumbags Obama and Clinton have been tying up traffic for three weeks now. (I know, I know... that’s MY problem.) Thank God the Pennsylvania primary vote will finally be over on Tuesday night.
Howie has it right! The marathon and St. Patrick’s day and any other event here in Beantown, are as Howie described it, drunks everywhere, runners and/or drunks pooping/peeing on lawns, it’s a fine city we have here.....I live out in the suburbs,,,,,one late nite last summer I was coming down my street and there was a car in front of my house, as I was pulling into my driveway a twenty something half in the bag girl was coming out of my bushes pulling up her pants, I kid you not, her two girlfriends who were in the car parked in front of my house, were laughing hysterically because she got caught pooping, yes pooping on my lawn,,,,I grabbed the cell phone, got the license number and called the cops, they found these idiots not too far from my house, hauled them back to my house and made the girl first apologize and secondly made her clean up her mess, it was not pretty, not pretty at all. If I was her parent I would have rubbed her face in it, she’d never poop on someone’s lawn again, then again, if I was her parent she would have been taught to use a toilet instead of a lawn.
is there any chance Howie might have confused Boston Marathon Monday with St. Pat’s?
No. Boston College is on the race route (Heartbreak Hill), and the students use any excuse for heavy drinking. I know, 'cause I graduated from BC!
Road Closures For Boston Marathon (from Boston.com):
Roads in Boston and towns along the Boston Marathon route will be closed at various times for the race on Monday, April 21. The closures in Boston begin this weekend, while other towns close on Monday.
HOPKINTON - Main Street Closes at 7:30 a.m.
ASHLAND - Rt 135 Closes at 7:30 a.m.
FRAMINGHAM - Rt 135 Closes at 8:45 a.m.
NATICK - Rt 135 Closes at 8:45 a.m.
WELLESLEY - Rt 135 and Rt 16 Close at 8:45 a.m.
NEWTON - Rt 16 and Rt 30 Close at 9 a.m.
BROOKLINE - Beacon Street Closes at 9:30 a.m.
BOSTON - Selected streets in the vicinity of Copley Square at 6 a.m.
All streets east of Massachusetts Avenue — as well as Mass. Pike exit 22 eastbound (Copley Square) — at 10 a.m.
All streets west of Mass Ave. from 11:30 a.m.:
Beacon Street: From Chestnut Hill Avenue to Brookline town line (Cleveland Circle)
The entire length of Beacon Street in Brookline will be closed.
Berkeley Street: From St. James Avenue to Newbury Street.
Boylston Street: From Mass. Ave. to Arlington St. (Exeter to Clarendon St. at 6:00 AM).
Chestnut Hill Avenue: From Commonwealth Avenue to Brookline town line (Ayr Road).
Clarendon Street: From Commonwealth Avenue to Stanhope Street.
Commonwealth Avenue: From Beacon Street to Gloucester Street and from Newton City Line (Lake Street), to Chestnut Hill Avenue.
Dalton Street: From Belvidere Street to Boylston Street.
Dartmouth Street: From St. James Avenue to Newbury Street at 6 a.m.
Exeter Street: From Commonwealth Avenue to Huntington Avenue at 6 a.m.
Fairfield Street: From Boylston Street to Newbury Street.
Gloucester Street: From Commonwealth Avenue to Boylston Street.
Hereford Street: From Commonwealth Avenue to Boylston Street.
Massachusetts Avenue: From Beacon Street to Belvidere Street.
Newbury Street: From Fairfield Street to Massachusetts Avenue.
Providence Street: From Arlington Street to Berkeley Street.
Public Alley #440: From Exeter Street to Dartmouth Street.
St. James Avenue: From Arlington Street to Dartmouth Street.
Stuart Street: From Arlington Street to Dartmouth Street.Trinity Place: From St. James Avenue to Mass. Turnpike on ramp.
About 20 years ago, I was working at a law firm representing Channel 5 against the Boston Athletic Association (who tried to copyright the term "Boston Marathon"), et al. over rights to broadcast the Marathon -- on of those "why can't both sides lose???" things. The law firm I worked for hired a market research firm (for reasons that now escape me -- I was going nuts with the whole thing anyway!) and polled people about the Marathon. I saw one response that said the Marathon was so important, that they made the day a holiday! :)
Oh fun.
I lived in Boston for a short while in the early 90’s. It was there that I saw the drunkest people I’ve ever seen in my life.
Monday ping—Howie out all week. Reese Hopkins in for him?
MONDAY APRIL 21
1st Hour
Robert Cheruiyot won his fourth Boston Marathon today, and Dire Tune outkicked Alevtina Biktimirova by 2 seconds in the closest finish in the history of the women’s race. Do you watch the marathon? Should it be moved to Sunday so as not to impact everyone trying to get to work?
2nd Hour
3rd Hour CHUMP LINE! Call 617-779-3469 and leave REESE Sandy or Happy a message about today’s stories or anything else buzzing around your bonnet and we may play it back on the air!
4th Hour
Reese is better looking than he sounds — but I’m still not listening to him! ;-)
I think it should be moved to Iowa or California or maybe China . . .
ping
I don’t like Hannity either — I don’t disagree with him, he just irritates me! I think I’ll just get used to the quiet for this week . . . :(
Howie column ping—live from Florida!
Debacle doesn’t reverse Curse of Channel 7
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
The Curse of Channel 7 lives.
Its baaaaack . . . only this time, it isn’t sports anchors, or ex-anchors, or airhead reporters getting bagged for, respectively, drunken driving, kiddie porn or shoplifting.
This time it’s the non-head-turning blond, female general manager, screaming (what else?), “Do you know who the (bleep) I am?”
As a matter of fact, Randi Goldklank, very few of us knew who the bleep you were until yesterday morning. Even those of us who belong to Boston’s largest alumni association - the “Fired From 7 Club” - couldn’t have picked you out of a lineup.
But we can now, baby. You’re a legend in your own time. And as the old saying goes, people who become legends in their own time usually don’t have much time left.
She’s just another Sunbeam blow-in from Florida who drifted into 7 Bulfinch Place. Nobody knew anything about her, unless you could match boldface names with blind items in the Inside Track.
My favorite part of the police report is when they ask her how many drinks she’s had and she answers “about three dozen.”
Bob Gamere could not be reached for comment. But remember, his nickname was “Two Beer” and he got clipped.
Hey, so what if Randi got a bad ice cube - or 36.
“I’m a big shot in Boston and I’ll have your (bleeping) jobs.”
She’s lucky she wasn’t also charged with impersonating a Kennedy.
When I went to work at Channel 7, the oldtimers used to tell us that the station had been built on an old Indian burial ground, and that anyone who violated the consecrated land - meaning us - would be cursed. Hey, it sounded semibelievable. After all, there had to be some explanation for the wretched luck that kept befalling the station, year after year after decade.
Once they caught a break with a new young anchor named Chuck Scarborough. He went to No. 1, and then on the night the good news became official, he quit to move to New York. His explanation, which he has since confirmed to me, was classic Channel 7. “In this business,” he told a cameraman, “you gotta (bleep) them before they (bleep) you.”
Too late, Randi!
But since Ed Ansin bought the station, the curse of 7 Bulfinch Place seems to have receded. After all, Jeff Derderian quit and went to work in Rhode Island just before The Station nightclub fire that killed 100 people. Gerry Grant was long gone to San Antonio before he pleaded guilty to buying kiddie porn from the woman who later was paralyzed in the traditional unrelated shooting.
Paula Zahn had a semidecent run at CNN before fellow Ch. 7 alum Bill O’Reilly knocked her off and the tabloid headlines about her third-rate romances and low-rent rendezvous started appearing.
But lately, Channel 7 has been drooping. Channel 25 is the new Channel 7 - flashier, with hotter anchor cupcakes, which is all that really matters in local TV news anyway. The fact that 7 had to hire Linda Ergas from 25 to up their fading babe quotient tells you all you need to know about which way the wind is blowing.
And now La Goldklank has been caught looking for love in all the wrong places. She claims she was groped on her flight by a male passenger who seems not to have existed. Who knew D.B. Cooper was back flying the friendly skies again? And apparently at least one of her 36 cocktails was Love Potion No. 9.
“You think I’m cute and I think you’re cute,” she reportedly told a cop. “Just drive me home.”
They say history first repeats itself as tragedy, then as farce. At Channel 7, it’s farce and then more farce. And if you don’t believe me, just ask a certain dead Indian chief.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1088972
As always, thanks for the ping.
Once again, Howie had me laughing as I read.
Randi Goldklank
“Who does a girl have to [bleep] around here to get a drink?”
Ain't that the truth!
No prob; http://www.savewrko.com alerted me to the presence of the column, though I would have checked the Herald website anyway to see if he’d written anything (...even on vacation in Florida!). Reg columns Sun, Wed, and Fri though sometimes
he’ll do a special column on other days if it’s needed.
from SAVEWRKO.com—below is by Brian Maloney:
‘Do You Know Who I Am?’
I’ve received quite a few emails from readers wondering when we would get to the white-hot story of WHDH-7’s general manager Randi Goldklank and her drunken tirade at Logan.
You know interest is high when even the boring Globies are all over it. After initially avoiding the story, Channel 7 and owner Sunbeam are now addressing it on their website.
Initially, I’d wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt: what if she really had been harassed by a man on the plane?
But the subsequent reporting indicates she was drunker than a skunk.
Because Goldklank is relatively new to the market, she’s an unknown quantity in Boston’s über-insular media environment. Unless you work at WHDH-7 or identical twin WSVN-7 in Miami, you’d probably never heard of her until now.
Now, however, Randi’s a household word, joining her namesake Randi Rhodes in the Public Drunkenness Hall Of Shame.
Full of high pressure and job insecurity, broadcasting is a brutal business. That lends itself to substance abuse, with good old-fashioned heavy drinking still common, in the management ranks as much as anywhere else inside the station.
It’s a story that would have been tailor-made for Howie Carr, who now spends more time away from the show than on the air. He now seems to have one-and-a-half feet in Florida, with just one or two toes still firmly planted in Massachusetts.
Soon enough, he’ll be just another Bay State retiree in the Naples area, as common as swamps in the Everglades.
UPDATE: Howie managed to file a Herald column on this matter from Sunny South Florida.
It amazes me that Howie can turn out so many good columns so quickly.
Obviously, Massachusetts provides plenty of grist for the mill.
Wed ping; still Reese.
The following is by Brian Maloney from http://www.savewrko.com
(Note: the person he mentioned, Thomas Arthur Irwin aka
“Tai” formerly of WRKO, WFNX, and WZLX, is a nice guy—had
been tech. advisor of the SSC radio station where I’ve been for a long time. Will read his blog column in a moment.)
by Brian Maloney:
At his Boston Herald blog page, Tai Irwin takes on Howie Carr, accusing him of “phoning-in” his radio program and newspaper column.
Irwin says he is willing to do both for free, if that’s what it takes to put some energy back into our tired local media scene.
While I agree with some of his points, Tai’s timing is off: Carr’s listeners can’t wait for him to return after suffering through a week of Fung Wah, his replacement.
The emails we’ve been receiving on this subject are amazing. Apparently, this is the first many had heard of the New Jersey hip hop promoter. Suddenly, Col Hunt’s ramblings actually seem coherent by comparison. (/Brian Maloney)
Tai’s blog: http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/tai_rade/?p=337
Here is what Tai wrote in the Herald
From the Tai-rade in the Herald (Tai’s nickname comes
from his initials. He was at a station in Albany, IIRC,
that had two “Toms” as DJs and to avoid confusion he became
TAI, or That Guy Tai, etc.)
By Thomas Arthur “Tai” Irwin:
Howie Carr Replaced
Howie – I’m Calling You Out. Now hear this: I’ll take over Howie’s slot at the Herald, and his radio show – and I’ll do them both for free. Don’t ask questions about the practical complications of such a plan, just start lobbying for it, damn it. You think I’m making a dime with this crummy blog you’re crazy. Time to move up and conquer.
In today’s paper* (purchased by over a dozen Bostonians at newsstands), Howie recycles his old bull____ about the evil race from hell, and all the upheaval his affluent of Wellesley must endure. The Boston Marathon is one of his favorite generic targets because it is obviously so dynamic and wonderful that to nuke it is to always get people talking. So does someone farting in church. Howie hates the race because it reminds him that some people can run 26 miles faster than he can come up with an original idea for a column.
You see how much trouble print media is in, just look at the mooks across from the Museum of Science every day not selling the Herald. I don’t think they could give it away if they tried. And even that free paper Boston Now was a bomb. Pat Purcell could save a fortune hiring me for free, and think of all the actual journalists they could retain with the savings. Together we could launch an audio element at the Herald that could rival anyone’s nationwide. Build a great website that lived and breathed Boston. And let’s face it, I have a better voice than Howie, and I look people in the eye, whereas he never changes his “shoegazing” mode. In the fatter and balder contest, Carr is proudly the winner.
Entercom could halt the Wall Street panic by taking Howie off the air. Nobody is interested in radio stock and can you blame them? He’s told them he doesn’t want to be there, right? Tell him there is a reunion of all his preppy pals at Deerfield and maybe that will be enough to point him down the Pike. Without Carr on afternoon drive WEEI’s show would have no competition, and WRKO would be free to run the info-mercials they pine for. And unlike Carr who costs an arm and a leg, they could start making serious money from David Oreck and Ron Popeil. Now that’s entertainment. I’d run the board and take calls from his loyal listeners not working (as usual) at that hour of the day.
Hey, if Robert Downey Jr. can be Iron Man, anything’s possible
*—you mean the Herald, who put your “tai-rade” on their
site? A lot more people that that buy it, but you’re just being sarcastic. And no, your voice isn’t better than
Howie’s, you’re both good—raccoonradio
my reply to the Tai-ster:
“hi Tai–Bob N of WMWM here. I do hope someone puts you on the air, but I still think Howie’s show and column are worth it. And both your voices are fine, IMHO (Tai used to be
tech. advisor for WMWM @ SSC, is a very nice guy, and worked for years at WFNX, WZLX, and even WRKO. He called in on air to congratulate me for my 25 years at WMWM. I don’t agree with him on this, as I still think Howie’s fine, but hope he gets on air somewhere!)
“PS–the battle to get Howie on WTKK shows that he is very valuable to either station”
Someone should tell Brian Baloney that if we want more #@%& from him, we’ll squeeze his head!
Just heard legendary Boston sportscaster Don Gillis has
passed away:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15978384/detail.html
BOSTON — Don Gillis, the man who invented the television sportscast in Boston, died Wednesday night, his son Gary said.
While Gillis began his career in radio and hosted post-game coverage of the Boston Red Sox. He became best known as a television sports anchor. In 1962, he began his nightly sports segment on WHDH-TV. (the old Ch 5)
“He was the first one in Boston to do a sportscast,” his son Gary said. “It was in October of 1962, the same night Johnny Carson started ‘The Tonight Show’”.
The segment was so popular that the television station expanded its late newscast from 15 to 30 minutes.
Texaco was a sponsor of the newscast and “they wanted him to wear a Texaco uniform on the set. They said they would give him another $15, but he wouldn’t wear it,” his son said. “With five kids at home, that wasn’t easy.”
Gary, who followed his father into broadcasting, said, “The greatest thing about him was that I never worried about running into someone who said ‘what a jerk your father is’. They talked about him with great admiration and great respect. That is the way he approached things. He felt everyone deserved respect until they proved otherwise.”
http://mumblesmenino.us/mumbling/Who%20Don%20Gillis.mp3
WHO TOM MENINO?
tom who???? LOL!
Is that Andy Moes?
Yes that was the late Andy Moes (died in Jan of ‘99 IIRC)
Friday ping; Howie back Monday I believe.
Today’s column in the Herald
Don’t play the Somma card, Randi
By Howie Carr | Friday, April 25, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Who framed Randy Randi Goldklank, the blotto boss of Ch. 7?
She is, of course, a victim. She must be - it can’t be her own fault, after all. She’s a Beautiful Person, a self-proclaimed “bigshot” who, with a single phone call, can ruin the lives of the Little People who were actually raised here, rather than on Long Island.
Someone must have framed Randy Randi. She had a fairytale-like rise to the top of the manure pile that is local TV news, and now she has the fairytale moniker to prove it: “Snow White Zinfadel.”
Time, though, is not on La Goldklank’s side.
She used to screech, “Do you know who I (bleepin’) am?”
Her next question is going to be, “Do you know who I was?”
But perhaps Randy Randi’s squalid career can still be salvaged. To survive, she must be able to point the finger at someone, or something else. Here are some suggestions for what or whom she can blame her shame:
• “Tabloid frenzy.” A new phrase, coined recently by disgraced U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma after he was arrested for DWI in Manchester, N.H., while wearing a cocktail dress and fishnet stockings, and carrying a purse after he left a gay bar. For weeks the Globe forgot to mention all of the above details except the DWI, but this newspaper (and the Union Leader) didn’t. Ergo, Judge Roberta says he’s the victim of a “tabloid frenzy” and shouldn’t have to give up his lifetime $158,000-a-year job.
The Globe was caught equally flat-footed on this story about yet another seriously bent Beautiful Person. Without the Herald, you can bet the drifters who run the other paper would have once again given a fellow blow-in the “full Somma” - a complete pass.
• “Police brutality.” Not a credible defense. Too many witnesses. On the plus side, F Troop, aka the airport staties, is not the most popular cop outfit around, what with their overtime and imperious attitude outside the Logan terminals. But compared to Randy Randi, they’re the salt of the earth, or as Randi would say, the salt of the bleepin’ earth.
• “Prescription mix-up.” This one is already being floated on the message boards, that she was zonked on the same drug as the other New York woman who recently died in a chokehold at the Phoenix airport. Of course, the labels on all these bottles warn you not to wash down the pills with “three dozen drinks” and to avoid operating “heavy machinery.”
• “I was groped.” Too late. If you were going to put that hoary “sexual-harassment” whopper across, you had to ID the perp as he got off the plane. No suspect, no traction.
• “I have a disease.” Join the club. So do half the people you’ll meet down at the Hurley Building when you’re filing for unemployment.
• “My mom died.” Show us the death certificate.
• “They hate me because I’m a woman.” No, Randy Randi, they hate you because you behave like a Kennedy.
• “Coming soon to Ch. 7, a new series - Dan Conley, Crusading District Attorney!” Jeff Derderian will be anchoring the 11 o’clock newscast before that one takes off.
• “Don’t cross me - I’ll be back.” Any question about her lingering clout, or lack thereof, was answered Tuesday in district court. Ironically, Ch. 7 was the pool camera for every station in town, and the video was perfect. I can think of at least one old Ch. 7 GM who would have ordered the tape to come up bad - and it would have.
• “I’ll sue!” That’s what Judge Somma has reportedly been saying too. Good luck.
Poor Randy Randi, I think the end is near. Randi, as the old country song goes, walk out backwards when you leave, so we’ll think you’re walkin’ in.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1089513
Well, at least he's having a good time on vacation . . .
Howie did a brief column in the Sat. Herald. Pictures
included at the link below.
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1089726
Whitey Bulger: This is your life
By Howie Carr | Saturday, April 26, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Teresa Stanley, Whitey Bulger’s longtime galpal, tells people that when the feds finally catch up with the geriatric fugitive, he’s going to look 15 years younger than everybody expects.
That’s the way it is with the Bulgers, she reportedly says. They just don’t seem to age.
So maybe if the serial-killing, cocaine-dealing gangster ever is captured, he’ll still look something like these photos, which are printed courtesy of America’s Most Wanted.
These photos, posted on the hit TV series’ Web site, amw.com, trace the life of the 78-year-old fugitive, who has been on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for close to 15 years now and has a $1 million bounty on his head.
Teresa, shown in many of the photos, was a struggling young mother of four in 1965 when she hooked up with Whitey. He had just been released from Leavenworth after doing a nine-year bit - including a couple of years at Alcatraz - for robbing banks. He ate dinner at her house most nights, and they traveled the world together as he planned for his eventual flight from justice.
In December 1994, just before Whitey’s racketeering indictment, she went on the lam with him for several weeks, dying her hair black as a disguise. But in January 1995, Whitey dropped Teresa off at a Hingham restaurant, and as she called her son-in-law to pick her up, Whitey rendezvoused with a younger moll, Catherine Greig, who has been with him ever since.
Memories . . . of the way we were . . .
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