[re_nortex]

I too thought Hyman Roth was a great character. I even stole one of his lines (actually a line about him) when talking about my Father. Daddy had some heart trouble when he was 28 but lived to be 90.

I told a friend that Daddy had been dying of the same heart attack for the last 50 years.

And since this thread was started by none other than Nick Carraway (of Great Gatsby fame), another great Hyman Roth line was this (while watching the Notre Dame-USC game in his modest Miami home):

"I've loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919."

The Gatsby gonnegtion [sic] is Meyer Wolfsheim, a doppleganger for Rothstein of the Black Sox scandal.

[yarddog]

I had forgotten the name he was called in “The Great Gatsby” although I knew he was based on a real guy.

I will never forget his cuff links.