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Mob reference in the Don Rickles HBO special.
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01/16/08 08:34 PM
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I watched "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project" on HBO earlier this month and I was amused at Bob Newhart's recollections of Las Vegas in the 1960's. He reminisced about how different Las Vegas was before the large, corporate-owned hotel became the norm. He referred to that era as a time "when the boys had Las Vegas." I got a kick out of that when I heard him say it...I know he's from Chicago and that phrase, "the boys," has always been one of my dad's favorite euphemism for, well, the boys...
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Re: Mob reference in the Don Rickles HBO special.
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01/17/08 01:45 PM
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I heard that reference, too. Comics and other entertainers who worked Vegas regularly often like to make chummy remarks about mobsters. I tend to take their reminiscences with a grain of salt. Mob guys were semi-legitimate presences in Nevada until 1958-59, when the new Gaming Commission took over regulation of the casinos. Their "Black Book" drove the mob guys underground. Even before that, they generally maintained a low public profile. Sure, they might have seen Sam Giancana, Frank Costello, Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno, Johnny Roselli, etc., in their audiences in the Fifties, but not after that.
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Re: Mob reference in the Don Rickles HBO special.
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he played a great part in casino I can't help but laugh when I see him trying to be serious (in "Casino"). Oddly enough, he played some serious roles (albeit they were small) early on in his career.
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Re: Mob reference in the Don Rickles HBO special.
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Comics and other entertainers who worked Vegas regularly often like to make chummy remarks about mobsters. I tend to take their reminiscences with a grain of salt. I agree, TB. However, I do recall one interview with Buddy Hackett, where he went into some detail about resenting the wiseguys, especially in Vegas. He claimed he couldn't retire because, even though he was no longer under contract, he was still a big draw right into the 80's, and therefore, a big moneymaker for them. I must admit, it had a ring of truth to it.
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Re: Mob reference in the Don Rickles HBO special.
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How did he manage to get the role in casino then?
as normally comics stick to that type of role.
i think im right he sayin he was tryin to portay Bobby Stella from Chicago? who was one of the outfits guys in vegas? Scorsese has a genius for casting the right people in the right roles. Rickles was perfect in that role. So was comic/folksinger Tommy Smothers as a crooked Gaming Commissioner. So was Oscar Goodman, Rosenthal's and the Ant's real-life lawyer, as himself (he's now the mayor of Vegas). So was James Woods, the Sultan of Smarm, as that cheesy ex-boyfriend of Sharon Stone. In "Goodfellas," James Eppolito, the crooked NYC cop who did hits for the mob, was "Fat Andy." "Johnny Dio," the guy cooking steaks in prison, was the guy who owns Raio's, a famous East Harlem Italian restaurant favored by the mob.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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