[yarddog]

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.

[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.

[driftless2]

"Hyman Roth"

The casting of Lee Strasberg as Roth was particularly interesting given that I believe it was Strasberg's film debut. And he might have been the best actor in Godfather II. John Cazale's role was also memorable.