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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sunday Leftovers

Just caught up with this obituary from Sunday's NY Times: Lefty Rosenthal, the gambler who inspired Robert De Niro's character in Casino.

As The Times notes, Rosenthal was never quite the same after surviving a car bomb outside a Tony Roma's in Las Vegas in 1982.

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