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Frank Lawrence 'Lefty' Rosenthal is a renowned sports handicapper and a former Las Vegas casino executive. He was born of Swedish parentage on June 12, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois, a recognized center of Scandinavian-Lutheran immigration to America at that time, and was later adopted by a Jewish family. Image File history File links FrankRosenthal. ...
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Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. ...
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He secretly ran the Stardust, Fremont and Hacienda casinos when they were controlled by the Mafia. He was the first to operate a sports book from within a casino (previously, the inefficient norm had been to do the opposite), making the Stardust one of the world's leading centers for sports gambling. Another Rosenthal innovation was to allow female blackjack dealers; in just one year, this doubled the Stardust's income. The Stardust Resort & Casino was a historic casino resort located on 63 acres along the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
The Fremont is a casino and Hotel located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
The Hacienda was a casino and hotel located in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
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In 1976, when authorities discovered that Rosenthal was secretly running casinos without the Nevada license needed to officially do so, they held a hearing to determine his legal ability to obtain this "gaming" license. The board's decision: Rosenthal was denied a license as an employee in a casino. However, he later succeeded, in an appeal before Judge Joseph Pavlikowski (who had been given a write off of $2,800 -- the cost of his daughter's wedding two years earlier -- at the same hotel at which Rosenthal had been working as a publicity director). An effort to have his name included in the Black Book (which would have banned him from being in or near any casino in Nevada, and could cause any casino he was found in to lose its license) was temporarily thwarted in 1988 by Judge Pavlikowski, but his decision was ultimately overruled. Black Book is the nickname frequently used to refer to a list of persons who are unwelcome in casinos. ...
Rosenthal earned the nickname "Lefty" during a Supreme Court hearing where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 37 times, not even answering the question of whether or not he was left-handed. The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be challenged. ...
Amendment V (the Fifth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, is related to legal procedure. ...
Rosenthal married Geraldine McGee, and they had two children, one black, one white. The marriage ultimately ended in divorce, with Rosenthal attributing the failure primarily to McGee's inability to escape her drug addictions. McGee eventually died in the early 1980s, following an apparent drug overdose at a motel (after leaving Rosenthal and stealing a significant portion of his savings). It was ruled that her death was accidental and from a combination of Cocaine, Valium and Jack Daniel's Whiskey. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Geraldine McGee Rosenthal. ...
Rosenthal survived a botched carbomb assassination attempt, and was forced out of Las Vegas (he was put in "the Black Book" in 1988, making him persona non grata -- and unhireable -- in every Nevada casino ever since). He retired to Laguna Niguel, California, and then to Boca Raton, Florida, where he continues to handicap sports events, marketing his picks to gamblers through his website. Black Book is the nickname frequently used to refer to a list of persons who are unwelcome in casinos. ...
Look up Persona non grata in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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The 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino, based on the book by Nicholas Pileggi, was based on Rosenthal's career in Las Vegas. Rosenthal (re-named "Sam 'Ace' Rothstein" for this fictionalized account) was played by Robert De Niro, and his Mafia associate Anthony Spilotro (re-named "Nicky Santoro") was played by Joe Pesci. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Martin Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an acclaimed American film director. ...
Casino is a 1995 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling. ...
Nicholas Pileggi with Nora Ephron Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing Wiseguy, which was adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and Casino, also adapted into a movie directed by Martin Scorsese. ...
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Anthony Tony the Ant Spilotro (May 19, 1938 - June 14, 1986) was a mafia enforcer for the Chicago Outfit who worked in Las Vegas in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
Joseph Pesci (born February 9, 1943), or Joe Pesci, is an Italian-American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster or grouchy funnyman. ...
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Nicholas Pileggi with Nora Ephron Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing Wiseguy, which was adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and Casino, also adapted into a movie directed by Martin Scorsese. ...
External links - Official site
- Nevada Gaming Commission's List of Excluded Persons listing
- The Enforcer: Spilotro-The Chicago Mob's Man in Las Vegas by William F. Roemer, Jr. ISBN 0-8041-1310-6
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