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'Casino' movie inspiration Rosenthal dead (movie & real life pretty close)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 10/16/08 | DAVE NEWBART

Posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:23 AM PDT by prolifefirst

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To: freekitty
Tony Spilotro was the outside or street boss for the Chicago mafia. He was nothing but a nasty thug.

The (late) mother of a friend of mine was something of a fixture on the Chicago social scene in the 1960s and 70s. Along with her husband, they would hang out at the swanky restaurants and clubs, rubbing elbows with politicians, journalists, artists and gangsters. One restaurant in particular, RIccardo's, was where all of these elements would come together. And for the most part, she said, the gangsters were lovely guys--in public. She had no illusions about what they got up to in private. Her favorite was the old Chicago Outfit consigliere Murray "The Camel" Humphreys. Anyway, she said that Tony Spilotro was the only one of those guys she ever met who really scared her.

41 posted on 10/16/2008 10:40:02 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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I totally agree with your mom. She is absolutely right in describing these people and Tony Spilotro was one scary thug. When the Feds were arresting him at his house; he and his wife were in the bedroom. She was sitting on the bed and trying to reach for a gun under the mattress. The Feds said they had never heard such filthy language from a woman.
42 posted on 10/16/2008 11:01:20 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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43 posted on 10/16/2008 11:05:35 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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MONKKK you are genius I knew it I knew it

See I told You I saw Harry Reid in that movie


44 posted on 10/16/2008 11:07:35 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: freekitty

Not my mom, my friend’s mom, although I worked for her for a while. The great Murray the Camel story she told was that she was walking down MIchigan Avenue one day and saw Murray walking her way. As he approached she said, “Murray!,” but he just walked right by her like he didn’t know her. She was like “wtf?” A few days later she and her husband were at a restaurant and Humphreys came up to their table. “Jane, I’m sorry about the other day, but the FBI guys were tailing me and I didn’t want them to get on you, too.”


45 posted on 10/16/2008 11:25:25 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Atleast he was honest with her.


46 posted on 10/16/2008 11:26:40 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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OH TOMKOWWWWW


47 posted on 10/16/2008 11:32:08 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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