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Hollywood Hype
In "Analyze This" (1999) a fictional East Coast mobster
seeks relief from constant panic attacks by visiting a psychiatrist.
Does this plot sound familiar?
The film came out the same year as HBO's "The Sopranos."
In the case of mob movies, familiar prejudice breeds box-office
(and TV) success.
In addition, the film opens with a montage of the infamous Apalachin,
NY meeting of 1957, when a group of Italians with arrest records
were seized after having a so-called "high level mafia meeting"
to discuss dividing up the U.S. into different criminal territories.
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Joe Truth
The first psychiatric hospital in New York City
was founded by Dr. John Romano.
Analyze That!
The simple fact is that NO ONE knows what went on in Apalachin, NY.
There were no tape recordings. Theories range from a summer barbecue
for a sick friend (Joe Barbera, at whose house the participants gathered)
to a pitch for investing in a casino in Cuba.
In short, a conspiracy theory ("mafia takes over the U.S.")
was transmogrified into fact.
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