Wasn't there an episode of The Simpsons with James Caan where Sonny's assassination at the toll booths was recreated? I seem to have a memory of it.
Also, while not exactly in the same vein as what we're discussing, Zero Mostel did a turn as a Mafia Don (as well as the President of the United States) in the little-seen 1975 comedy Foreplay.
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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