"I buy you out, you don't buy me out!"
Posted on 07/19/2015 3:47:03 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
Alex Rocco, the veteran tough-guy character actor with the gravelly voice best known for playing mobster and Las Vegas casino owner Moe Greene in The Godfather, has died. He was 79. Rocco died Saturday, his daughter, Jennifer, announced on Facebook. No other details of his death were immediately available.
Rocco, who studied acting with the late Leonard Nimoy, a fellow Boston-area transplant, also was the voice of Roger Meyers Jr., the cigar-smoking chairman of the studio behind "Itchy and Scratchy" on The Simpsons, and he played Arthur Evans, the father of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character, on the stylish Starz series Magic City.
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"I buy you out, you don't buy me out!"
‘Yo, I’m talking to you, yeah, you. Schmuck.’ I’ll miss him; he played New York Italians (himself; and Jews) like he was breathing air...naturally. What a paisan, and mensch. Later.
Also in one of my favorite movies, Gotcha!
But, Moe Green lives forever...he built Las Vegas. More or less.
Damn! All this time I thought he was a Yid.
Yeah and there is not even a street named after him.
I’ve had my eye out for Moe Green.
Good one.
I’ve always avoided Oriental massages after that scene.
Over 60 killed because somebody grabbed his girlfriend’s butt in the early 60s.
http://projectmarino.com/boston-underworld-timeline/the-irish-gang-wars/
A member of the old Winter Hill Gang who got out while the gettin’ was good... R.I.P.
"Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. A Los Angeles' Coroner's Report (#37448) states the cause of death as cerebral hemorrhage."
That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
-- Hyman Roth (in one of the great movie monologues)
Geez! What a bunch of lunatics! OK, some dude grab’s your lady’s butt ... Bust him in the chops, walk away and let it go. This was pure insanity.
“Morris “Moe” Greene is a fictional character appearing in Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel The Godfather and movie. The character’s name is a composite of real Las Vegas mobsters Moe Dalitz, or possibly Moe Sedway, and Gus Greenbaum. However, Greene’s personality is based on Bugsy Siegel. Greene is portrayed in the movie by Alex Rocco.[2]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Greene
On my way to the Nam, in the Spring of 1970 my girlfriend and I laid on the sand of Laguna Beach CA and read each other chapters of the Godfather. I lived in Vegas back in 2002-05 and the book is right. I couldn’t find any place name for him.
Poor Moe. Lost in time.
That’s for sure. Good clip. Godfather I and II were outstanding.
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