‘Goodfellas’ still going strong after 30 years
In the painting, a man with white hair and beard, his left hand steering an outboard motor, is piloting a…
Robert De Niro
Review: ‘The Irishman’ great film despite historical questions
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a great organized crime movie. It’s right up there with the director’s other great organized…
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…
New Scorsese movie to spotlight Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance
Every summer, speculation heats up regarding one of the nation’s great Mob mysteries: What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? After serving…
Scorsese movie, Merlino trial highlight Philadelphia’s Mob past
The City of Brotherly Love is generating Mob-related headlines again. The city’s Mob history has popped up in stories 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…
Informant’s testimony about 1978 Lufthansa heist sheds new light on key element of “Goodfellas” movie
Henry Hill, the late Mob associate turned government witness, claimed in his book The Lufthansa Heist, co-authored by Daniel…
I vote ‘Aye’
There may never have been a better time to live in Las Vegas than in the early to mid-1990s. The…