'Boadwalk' masterpiece

Paige Wiser: This project can't have been difficult to greenlight. It has writer-producer Terence Winter of " The Sopranos ," and the oversight of Martin Scorsese . He even directed the first episode, seizing the chance to combine parts of "GoodFellas" with "The Age of Innocence ." (The pilot reportedly cost $20 million to film.) "Boardwalk Empire" is ostensibly the history of organized crime in ...