Geri Rosenthal’s ‘life on the edge’
In September 1980, during an argument with her husband, Geri Rosenthal waved a gun around outside their house in the…
Casino
From shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick Pileggi remembers it well
Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he…
Two popular TV series will highlight Midwest mobsters this spring
The Kansas City Mob is being featured in two popular crime series that will be kicking off new seasons this…
Acting legend enhances lengthy Mob movie resume with ‘The Irishman’
Screen legend Robert De Niro, with a long list of classic Mob movies to his credit, has a lead role…
The Kansas City connection
In the 1995 movie Casino, the Mob’s control of skimming at Las Vegas casinos is exposed when authorities learn about…
Separating fact from fiction in ‘Casino’
Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s…
Legendary comic Don Rickles, a Las Vegas showroom staple, has died
Don Rickles, who comically insulted Las Vegas audiences for seven decades and had a prominent role in Casino, died Thursday…
I vote ‘Aye’
There may never have been a better time to live in Las Vegas than in the early to mid-1990s. The…
“Legend” is latest film portrayal of the Kray twins
The Kray twins, the volatile ex-boxers who went from extortion racketeers in 1950s London to nightclub-owning celebrity gangsters in the…
Lefty’s house, equipped with bulletproof windows, is on the block
Despite being so safe, the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, two-story house still has a wide-open feel thanks to the expansive windows…