Review: Cocaine Cowboys Two: Hustlin’ with the Godmother
By Casey Owen (DVDfeed) via DeVoteD DVD Australia
Friday 10 July, 2009
Cocaine Cowboys Two: Hustlin’with the Godmother begins with the story of Charles Cosby. Cosby had a relatively happy childhood in Oakland, California, in the late ’60s and early ’70s. That is until his parents’ marriage fell apart due [...]
via AllHipHop.com
Cocaine Cowboys II Set to Hit Stores
Published Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:46 AM
By Ismael AbduSalaam
In a follow up to the highly successful cult original, Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother has been confirmed for DVD release on July 29.
The sequel will be narrated by Charles Cosby, a lover of the notorious Griselda [...]
via New Times
Griselda Blanco has acquired many monikers in her 65 years. The Colombian drug dealer earned the title of “Cocaine Queen” in 1970s New York, and she became La Madrina — AKA “The Godmother” — when she moved her operations to Miami. Because of her tendency to bump off her own husbands, three in [...]
via DVD Talk
The story of Oakland, Calif.-based drug lord Charles Cosby and his tumultuous association with Griselda Blanco (the so-called “Godmother” of the Colombian cocaine trade) is the kind of stuff Hollywood screenwriters salivate over and indeed, Cosby seems highly self-aware, conscious of the seductive nature of his tale. And so Cocaine Cowboys 2 follows [...]
via East Bay Express
Oakland crack-house operator Charles Cosby became the twentysomething lover of fiftysomething Colombian cocaine queenpin Griselda Blanco after writing the then-incarcerated billionairess a fan letter that said: “I wanna rub elbows with a legend.” Mano a mano with Blanco, Brookfield Village-bred Cosby soared to Medellín-financed überhustlerdom in the early ’90s, stashing his millions [...]
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In his follow up film, ‘Cocaine Cowboy 2 Hustlin’ With The Godmother’ Corben shows that one of the most ruthless and successful people in the cocaine trade was a woman, Griselda Blanco. She was a bad if not worse than any of her male counterparts and this film chronicles the [...]
Fresh off the wire is a review found on Variety about Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With The Godmother. The author, Robert Koehler, says in his review that “the wild fusillade of colorful characters and incidents in “Cocaine Cowboys” gets toned down a touch in “Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother,” less a sequel [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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