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Old 11-10-2011, 08:35 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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do any of our older posters on here remember this?


Frank Sinatra show - YouTube

whoever posted this mistitled the video, its actually the Frank Rosenthal show
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Old 11-11-2011, 12:39 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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I never did, but I had a lot of good friends that worked production on that show freelance. It was actually considered a big joke here in town it was so bad, and it got Lefty in trouble with his mob bosses because it drew too much attention to them. Lefty was obviously an egomaniac that couldn't keep his mouth shut and always had to be in the limelight. That old Italian family with the last name, Mafia, liked to keep it on the down low.

The movie casino, except for being condensed down from several years to about 140 minutes, was surprisingly accurate. Compare Ch-8's documentary footage with it and it is amazing. Especially the scene of Lefty getting in then Gaming Control Board Chairman Harry Reid's face over being turned down for a gaming license.

Even Oscar got to play himself in the movie and the real life saga.

All this ended up with the deaths by baseball bat of Tony Spilotro and his brother in an Illinois cornfield, the downfall of the Stardust and other casinos, and Lefty reduced to running a bar in Florida.
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Old 11-11-2011, 02:28 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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the Stardust and other casinos, and Lefty reduced to running a bar in Florida.
and this after having a wife that makes Sharron Stone look like Ma Kettle......
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Old 11-11-2011, 05:22 AM
 
Location: Vegas, baby, Vegas!
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No mater what you folks say, I think this sordid past makes Las Vegas all that more 'colorful'
to know what it is to sin, you must have at one point been a sinner.

If this city was Built by Disney, It would be Las Mickey (and I would NEVER want to live there)

Hi ho, Hi ho, its off to gamble we go.....


Geeky
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Old 11-11-2011, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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No mater what you folks say, I think this sordid past makes Las Vegas all that more 'colorful'
to know what it is to sin, you must have at one point been a sinner.

If this city was Built by Disney, It would be Las Mickey (and I would NEVER want to live there)

Hi ho, Hi ho, its off to gamble we go.....


Geeky
make that "SOME of you folks".....I LOVE the way Las Vegas built it's rep and am proud to say that I have worked for and with some of the "Standup guys" in town....

and NO, I never belonged to the Mothers and Fathers Italian Association

But "da boys" knew how to run a gamblin town.
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Old 11-11-2011, 09:00 AM
 
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I remember the show on channel 5 at midnight saturday. Never watched it since SNL was on at the same time.
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Old 11-11-2011, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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I remember the show on channel 5 at midnight saturday. Never watched it since SNL was on at the same time.
I believe that those were all AFTER the attempt to wack Leftie in the parking lot of the ribjoint on Sahara....probably to wave it in there faces "HA!HA! ya missed me."
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Old 11-11-2011, 09:32 AM
 
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I believe that those were all AFTER the attempt to wack Leftie in the parking lot of the ribjoint on Sahara....probably to wave it in there faces "HA!HA! ya missed me."

It was late seventies. I was watching SNL for the Coneheads.
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Old 11-11-2011, 09:40 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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It was late seventies. I was watching SNL for the Coneheads.
ahhh then the BOMB was planted by people that didnt like Lefties show.....

I was lucky....when he was on the air I was serving my sentence in the Casinos of Gnu Jusey. I missed his show and the bomb n everything....
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Old 11-11-2011, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Sunrise
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and Lefty reduced to running a bar in Florida.
What bar? Chances are, I probably met him and didn't even know it.


EDIT -- Never mind. I never went to Crocs in Boca. Boca Raton is way too snooty for me.
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