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Without Tom, he also appeared in the 1995 Martin Scorsese-directed film Casino in an uncharacteristically serious role as a dishonest Nevada State Senator. His character and the dialogue in one scene was partly based on the career of former United States Senator Harry Reid, who once chaired the Nevada Gaming Commission. My very first blog post on “Death and Dementia” – a site originally dedicated to creepy, unexplained murders and deaths (before originally branching out to a far less grim subject matter, mostly general horror stuff) dealt with the death of Elisa Lam. She was a Canadian student who, on her visit to LA, mysteriously drowned in her hotel. The Casino movie true story reveals that Sam and Ginger Rothstein's real-life counterparts, Frank and Geraldine Rosenthal, had a daughter named Stephanie and a son name Steven. Geraldine also had a daughter from a previous relationship with her high school love, Lenny Marmor (James Woods' character in the movie). Artie Piscano has a heart attack when the Feds search his house. The bosses order all the men involved with the casino scam (Andy Stone, John Nance etc.), murdered. Ginger gets involved with some lowlifes and has an overdose and dies. Ace survived the car bombing at the beginning because of a secret metal plate under the driver's seat.

If you’re into casinogames, you know how exciting it could be – even if you’re just holding a coupleof cards and facing a few more. How, then, can you translate that to the bigscreen? Presumably not everyone in the audience is going to understand but onething they get is tension.

It’s fairly common tosee scenes shot in a casino, especially if the setting is in Las Vegas. Overthe years, there have been some really good – and quite memorable – scenes notonly of casinos but of gambling itself.

Here’s a look at someof the best:

21

The movie 21is based on the best-selling book Bringing Down the House by BenMezrich. It tells the story of the MIT Blackjack Team who won lots of money bycounting cards while playing blackjack in Vegas. Despite controversies – mostlyregarding the casting – the film was a box office success.

Unlike other moviesthat feature just once major gambling scene, a good chunk of this movie takesplace in a Las Vegas casino. And the place isn’t just used as a setting;there’s actual gameplay going on.

There’s a couple ofenjoyable scenes in this movie but the final gambling scene is one of the best.Telling much more than that will risk spoiling the movie (if you still plan onseeing it despite being a little more than a decade old).

Ocean’s Eleven

There’s not a lot ofgambling in this movie but a lot of the action takes place inside a casino.After all, this film is about robbing three casinos owned by Terry Benedict,brilliantly played by Andy Garcia.

The movie doesfeature a really nice gambling scene at the beginning. It involves Brad Pitt’scharacter, Rusty, trying to teach young Hollywood actors how to play poker. Theending of this scene is pretty clever: Brad Pitt and George Clooney are bothHollywood heartthrobs but it’s the young ones who are mobbed by a crowd ofyoung girls. That, and it apparently shows that you can’t teach young Hollywoodhow to gamble.

While the youngmembers of Hollywood turned to Rusty to teach them poker, you can learn how todo so on your own. There are many places online where you can play with “fake”money until you gain enough confidence to deal with the real thing.

When you are at that stage, make sure to look at the reviews featured on Casinopedia to know which sites are worth the time and which ones are best ignored. They are a dedicated gambling site giving great reviews and guides for players in the UK. Once you’re gambling with actual money, remember to do so wisely. It’s never a good idea to blow everything you have just because you were addicted to the thrill. In other words, know when to walk away.

Casino Royale

The gambling scene inthis movie has a lot of tension. Of course, it’s a James Bond movie so therehas to be even when all the characters are seated. But Bond is gambling withmoney that is clearly not his own, all in the name of bankrupting a terroristcalled Le Chiffre. It’s a brilliantly shot scene that involves a near-deathexperience – imagine that and all over a game of poker.

Swingers

Before Jon Favreau directed the first Marvel movie, he wrote and starred in Swingers, a comedy about unemployed actors living in California during the swing revival. The film was a critical hit and launched the careers of Favreau, Vince Vaugn, and director Doug Liman.

As alluded to before,this is a scene that stresses the importance of gambling mindfully. The funnyscene at a Las Vegas casino sees the main characters lose all their $300 forbeing reckless. The loss leads to a suggestion of transferring to a table withlower stakes.

Rounders

Although this MattDamon film got mixed reviews and earned modestly at the box office, it became acult hit years later when poker boomed in the early 2000s. It explores theworld of underground high-stakes poker and for that matter, it isn’t set in acasino. A more recent film that featured this type of theme was Molly’s Gamewhich is also a good movie but it focused on Molly Bloom rather than pokerplaying.

These are just someof the films that have great casino or gambling scenes in them. While youalready know that playing cards or slots for that matter can be pretty excitingand nerve-wracking, you can trust Hollywood to replicate the experience of funand loss.

One of the more memorable scenes in the 1995 movie Casino depicted the character based on Tony Spilotro (played by actor Joe Pesci) and his brother being beaten to death in a cornfield.

The actual killings of Tony and Michael took place in June 1986. After their bodies were found in an Indiana cornfield, there was some speculation that the two had been buried while still alive.

However, testimony given by various witnesses in the Operation Family Secrets trial in Chicago – including a forensic pathologist and a former Outfit hit man – show that the real murders didn’t occur exactly as shown on the big screen.

Below is part of an article that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 1, highlighting that testimony.

August 1, 2007

BY STEVE WARMBIR Staff Reporter

A forensic pathologist who took part in the autopsies of mobsters Anthony and Michael Spilotro gave testimony on Wednesday that upended the Hollywood version of their deaths, which had the men beaten to death with bats and buried alive in an Indiana cornfield.

Dr. John Pless said at the Family Secrets trial that there was no evidence that the men had been buried alive. The grisly detail was popularized in the 1995 mob movie, “Casino.”

Pless said the injuries the men received were more likely from fists than bats.

Pless riveted jurors with a detailed list of the injuries both men received.

The Spilotros both died from multiple blunt trauma injuries and from having their lungs or airways so filled with blood from their wounds that they couldn’t breathe, according to Pless’ testimony.

The men had been lured to the basement of a Bensenville area home in June 1986 after a mob hit squad had unsuccessfully tried to kill Anthony Spilotro in Las Vegas, according to earlier trial testimony.

Spilotro had tried to blow up a mob associate without Outfit permission, had slept with that associate’s wife and had committed unauthorized murders, according to evidence at trial.

Mob officials lured the men to the basement on the promise that Tony Spilotro was to be promoted to a capo position in the mob, and Michael Spilotro was to be a “made” member of the Outfit.

Instead, a dozen killers were waiting for the men in the basement and jumped them as they came down.

Earlier in the trial, Outfit killer Nicholas Calabrese, who is testifying for the government, described his own role in the murders.

Calabrese testified he held Michael Spilotro while another man strangled him. Calabrese said he did not get a good look at how Anthony Spilotro was killed.

The forensic pathologist testified that he found abrasions around the neck of Michael Spilotro that could have come from a rope, but noted that the corpses had decomposed after being buried for at least a week in the cornfield, and it was difficult to find markings.

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The attorney for reputed mob boss James Marcello jumped on the lack of clear strangulation marks.

Defense lawyer Thomas Breen hammered home that point to the jury and will likely use it to bolster his argument that Nicholas Calabrese wasn’t even at the Spilotro murders and made up his account of them.

Calabrese’s testimony is important to Marcello because Calabrese contends Marcello took part in the murders by driving him and other killers to the Bensenville area home.

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