Up from Never
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Joseph Sorrentino was down so long it didn't look like there was any way up. A first generation Italian kid from one of Brooklyn's worst ghettos, he dropped in and out of school four times, earned a reputation as a good gang and street fighter, was sent to a reform school, flunked out of the Marines, stole, hustled and was fired from a variety of jobs (including one for Twentieth-Century-Fox after he copped premiere tickets destined for luminaries and gave them to his grandmother and her friends...
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