Nicholas Pileggi Casino

The movie is based on Pileggi’s 1995 nonfiction book, Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. Pileggi and Scorsese also co-wrote the Mafia movie Goodfellas, which premiered in 1990.
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CASINO From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style. The shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino.

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
Author	Nicholas Pileggi
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	True crime, biography, Mafia, criminals, case studies
Genre	Biography, case studies
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	October 1995
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback), eBook, audio cassette, audio CD, Audible Audio Edition, Amazon Kindle
Pages	368 pp (hardcover)
ISBN	0684808323

Casino - Love and Honour in Las Vegas is the true crime classic by Nicholas Pileggi, which was turned into a hit movie by Martin Scorsese starring Robert DeNiro and Sharon Stone. Pileggi co-wrote the film and it won Sharon the Golden Globe. CASINO From Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy -the #1 bestseller that became Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film GoodFellas-comes the brilliantly told true story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge, Mafia-style. The shattering inside account of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the neon money-making machine it created: the multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry of Las Vegas.

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas^[1] (ISBN0684808323) is a 1995 non-fiction book by crime reporterNicholas Pileggi that depicts the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas.

Summary[edit]

Casino covers the period through the seventies to early eighties when the Mafia controlled certain Las Vegas casinos. Today, it is believed that the major casinos are not influenced by the Mafia. Since the 1970s, the government has been very strict about keeping the mob out of the Vegas casinos.^[2] Pileggi focuses on the story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, a Chicago bookmaker working for organized crime, and his friend, partner and also Mafia member, Anthony Spilotro. Rosenthal supervises the casino operations, while Spilotro provides protection, security and also masterminds jewelry raids that lead to his crew being nicknamed the Hole in the Wall Gang.^[3]

Critical reception[edit]

Kirkus Reviews called the book 'riveting,' writing that 'Pileggi offers a blow-by-blow account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled as silent but deadly partners during the 1970s.'^[4]

Film version[edit]

The book is the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Casino directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay for Casino was by Pileggi and Scorsese. Although Pileggi had already written the book and wanted it published in advance of the film version, Scorsese tried to persuade him to forgo the usual chronology and to release the book after the film. However the book was released the month before the film came out.^[5]

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The two main protagonists/antagonists of Rosenthal and Spilotro were portrayed as Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Sharon Stone, playing Rothstein's wife, Ginger (based on Geri McGee), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

References[edit]

^Pileggi, Nicholas (November 25, 1995). 'Casino : love and honor in Las Vegas'. New York : Simon & Schuster – via Internet Archive.
^ED GRABIANOWSKI. 'How the Mafia Works'. people.howstuffworks.
^Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (September 28, 1995). 'BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Mob's Tale of Sorrow About Las Vegas (Published 1995)' – via NYTimes.com.
^'CASINO | Kirkus Reviews' – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
^Baxter, John. De Niro: A Biography. p. 337. ISBN0006532306.

External links[edit]

Casino.

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