COCAINE COWBOYS featured in upcoming book

Ken Tucker, pop culture critic for New York Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, is writing a book called SCARFACE NATION: THE ULTIMATE GANGSTER MOVIE AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA, which will be published by St. Martin's Press in November.

In his SCARFACE NATION blog yesterday, Ken discusses what will no doubt be my favorite chapter in the book:

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."