R.I.P., LEFTY ROSENTHAL
10.16.08
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, a former casino executive once called the greatest living expert on sports handicapping and the man on whom Robert DeNiro’s character in Casino was based, has died at the age of 79.
Officials said Rosenthal died from a heart attack in his Miami Beach condo.
Rosenthal, who once survived a car bomb, ran the Chicago mob-owned Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s. [CNN]
**pours out a little coffee on the floor for my homeboy** Here’s to you, Lefty, I hope you’re up in Heaven right now trying to bang that chick from TLC. Oh wait, he was Jewish? Nevermind about the Heaven thing. …Hey don’t look at me, I don’t make the rules, Jesus does.
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Meanwhile Mel Gibson has his feet on his desk and a smug grin of self-satisfaction
Okay, who had “10/16/08″ in the pool?
Bada-bing!
Am I right or am I right?! Ya fuckin’ mook.
Ironically, his bosses were considered to be the greatest handicappers of people, too.
BONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FTW, Lanky Mangina…
It’s going to be some scandal when they realize he’d set his own line at 80 and had his cronies load up on the under.
Well, at least he became a law abiding citizen later in life by moving to Miami – as all Jews over 65 are required to.
From his Wikipedia entry:
Another Rosenthal innovation was to allow female blackjack dealers; in just one year, this doubled the Stardust’s income.
It doubled again a year later when Rosenthal allowed the female blackjack dealers to demonstrate on male gamblers how to count to 21.
Eraserhead is dead? NOOOOO!!!!
Dead Jew? That’s one less vote for Obama!
Funeral processions will be held at his home on Remulak.
Craptastic/Diremutt/Crapbasket is going to be beside himselves this morning. Not for this Jew/Mobster dying, but because the Dodgers are just as shitty as the Cubs.
Dead Jew? That’s one less vote for Obama!
But one more voter registered as a Democrat!
Growing up, my pediatrician was Dr. Rosenthal. I think he was a lefty – hang on… *turn and cough* – Yep, lefty.
Seeing what Lefty actually looked like, I think I would have cast Nic Cage.
Damnit, Donk. There goes my ACORN follow-up.
Meanwhile, at a meeting of mob hitmen, Joey Patience sits smugly in his chair and brags about how his “get him hooked on foods high in cholesterol” plan worked better than a car-bombing.
New Up!
Burnsy, I wasn’t sure if you were setting it or not. I figured after five minutes I was ok for the spike.
Hey, some of us have to pretend to work around here.