So maybe I'll give it a rewatch now that I've read the book.Ĭasino is pitched as being an action packed tale of love death and betrayal.but Nope!Ĭasino actually spends the majority of its time explaining how the mob and our main character(because despite being a real person Lefty Rosenthal is a character) skim money from Vegas casinos.

I don't think I liked it that much but I was only 15 and I watched it right after I watched Goodfellas(One of my ALL TIME FAVES). Also I remember the men wearing a lot of terrible loud suits. The only thing I remember is Robert DeNiro's characters car explodes. (Las Vegas)Ī million years ago I watched the movie Casino because its a Martin Scorsese movie and I've seen all his movies.īut I don't really remember it.

Reading Rush: Read a book set someplace you wish you could go. A story of adultery, murder, infighting, and revenge, this “fascinating true-crime Mob history” is a high-stakes page-turner ( Booklist). It would all lead to betrayal, a wide-ranging FBI investigation, multiple convictions, and the end of the Mafia’s longstanding grip on the multibillion-dollar gaming oasis in the midst of the Nevada desert.Ĭasino is a journey into 1970s Las Vegas and a riveting nonfiction account of the world portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. Spilotro made an error of his own, falling for his partner’s wife, a troubled showgirl named Geri. But the elaborate scheme began to crumble when Rosenthal’s disproportionate ambitions drove him to make mistakes. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the “Hole in the Wall Gang.”įor years, these gangsters kept a stranglehold on Sin City’s brightly lit nightspots, skimming millions in cash for their bosses. account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” ( Kirkus Reviews).įocusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy-basis for the film Goodfellas-Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting.

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