Jerry Capeci, whose latest book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia," was published last year and who writes a column about organized crime for his Web site, ganglandnews.com, and The New York Sun, weighs in on fellas good, bad and not-quite-obsolete.
Haven't you been watching the World Cup? That's the great Bulgarian Tittyshev!' The fella wasn't bad - actually, he scored!" The fella in question was a 27-year-old called Steve Davies who had given up park football six years earlier.
The score takes care of itself only in the long term and in the aggregate; close-up, it's just the way the ball bounces: the score frisks around and dances and then goes home perversely, with the wrong fella, like the bad girl in an old Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.
Each one offers a capsule biography and a mug shot of one or another 20th-century bad fella, a motley lineup that includes the Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno R. Hauptmann and the murderer Ruth Snyder, the first woman to die in the electric chair.
For the ladies' perspective, if your fella has a bad smell down there, it is probably one of two things: One, they are dipping in someone else's sauce and that sauce has gone bad.
Sabathia was gone four batters later, when Josh Reddick singled; in a closeup, you could see him mouthing, "My bad, fellas," as he was removed.
From the start, Martin Scorsese makes clear that his movie is about some very bad fellas; he has no delusion about the twisted moral fibre of the characters he films.
Mr. Gazzara, 80, recalled meeting "this little fella with big red hair" when he and Mr. Garfein both studied acting in Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop around 1949. "Jack was a bad boy," he said, smiling at the memory.
"Hey, little fella, you with the bad haircut, could you get me a Diet Coke?" he asks.
Sue got treated bad by a fella – he also left, and left her bankrupt.
