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Come to Los Angeles.
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The sun shines bright.
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The beaches are wide and inviting.
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And the orange groves
stretch as far as the eye can see.
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There are jobs aplenty. Land is cheap.
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Every workingman can have his own house.
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And inside every house,
a happy all-American family.
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You can have all this.
And who knows ?
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You could even be discovered...
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... become a movie star,
or at least see one.
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Life is good in Los Angeles.
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It's paradise on earth.
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That's what they tell you, anyway.
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Because they're selling an image.
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They're selling it through movies,
radio and television.
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In the hit show, Badge of Honor,
the L.A. cops walk on water...
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... as they keep the city
clean of crooks.
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You'd think this place
was the Garden of Eden.
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But there's trouble in paradise...
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... and his name is Meyer Harris Cohen,
Mickey C, to his fans.
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Local L.A. color to the nth degree.
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And his number one bodyguard...
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... Johnny Stompanato.
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Mickey C's the head
of organized crime in these parts.
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He runs dope, rackets and prostitution.
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He kills a dozen people a year.
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And the dapper little gent
does it in style.
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And every time his picture's
on the front page...
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... it's a black eye
for the image of Los Angeles.
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Because how can organized crime exist...
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... in the city with the best
police force in the world ?
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Something has to be done.
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But nothing too original,
because, hey, this is Hollywood.