Tony Montana: a recent arrest

Scarface continues to commit crimes, but some Tony Montanas stay alive and are sent to jail, as you can read here.

The Daily Scarface: "Scarface McCain"

It may have been inevitable, but it's no less scary...

The Daily Scarface: Scarface on Obama

This piece
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/are-rappers-endorsements-going-to-keep-obama-out-o/20862/
suggests that hip-hop artists may be wary of making their support of Obama too public, lest it damage his chances to win. The rapper Scarface is the most eloquent, in his way...

The Daily Scarface

Sometimes a man just needs a Scarface duvet cover...

The Daily Scarface: Lady Scarface

In "Scarface Nation," I have a chapter called "Alterna-Scarfaces" that gives due credit and praise to the terrific documentary "Cocaine Cowboys." Among other colorful characters, filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman describe the criminal career of Griselda Blanco, a ruthless Miami drug lord who could easily have been dubbed "Lady Scarface."
(There are at least two other "Lady Scarface"s in cinema history--read my book to find out who/what they are.)
Anyway, this piece in today's Miami Herald suggests that Corben and Spellman had the same idea I did, and one day in the not so distant future, we may see a big-studio production of "Lady Scarface."

The Daily Scarface

Today's proof that Scarface continues to exert his presence in the culture, for good or bad. 

Read this.

Welcome to Scarface Nation

You've arrived at the site for "Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America," to be published by St. Martin's Press this November. 

It's a book not just about the 1983, Brian De Palma "Scarface," but also about Howard Hawks' 1932 "Scarface," and Armitage Trail's 1930 pulp novel "Scarface."

It's also about the rapper Scarface, and a thousand other ways Scarface has manifested itself in the culture. 

You can pre-order my book from Amazon here.

More soon.