Drug Warriors.(American Gangster)(Movie review)

Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the dazzling thug in "American Gangster," is a man particular in his ways, and, early in the movie, he sees something that bothers him. For years, Frank, a real-life figure, was a protege of the Harlem crime boss Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson, and when Bumpy dies, in 1968, the wake at his house draws in the notables--local politicians, assorted mafiosi, and Harlem ruffians, one of whom, an insolent dude named Tango, puts a damp glass of Scotch down on Bumpy's lacquered dining-room table. Frank picks it up, dries off the table, and places the glass on a coaster. For Frank, there is a correct and an incorrect way of doing things, and property ...