@mrbojangles25: I thought the book was more that he was viewed as a legend in the mythological sense, that he had no real place in their world.
And he's actually doing pretty well. He has this, the recently announced Bad Boys 4 and the pre-production'd Planes, Trains and Automobiles remake. He's also supposedly producing and starring in a biopic of NYC crime boss Nicky Barnes for Netflix, but that seems to be stuck in Pre-Production Hell.
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