Casino is the best Mafia film although some might say that Casino
could not exist without the preceding Goodfellas so Casino is sort
of like Goodfellas 2. Be that as it may characters in Casino derive
from guys in the so-called Outfit — the Chicago Mafia — who ran
Las Vegas. A lot of us poetry readers, while we are familiar with
Joe Pesce and Robert De Niro in Casino, might not know about
their real life counterparts so a few of them can be seen below:
Joey Aiuppa, on the right, was the CEO of the Outfit at the time
in which Casino takes place although the character upon which
he is based is supposed to be from Kansas City in the film and
only appears in one or two scenes. I don't know who the guy on
the left is.
Robert De Niro plays Lefty Rosenthal in Casino and Sharon
Stone plays his wife. This photo shows the real Lefty Rosenthal
on the right along with his wife so you can see how incredibly
hot she was just like Sharon Stone in the movie. The other guy
is Michael Spilotro. He was the brother of Anthony Spilotro,
who was played by Joe Pesce in the film. I don't know who
the woman on the left is. Maybe Michael's wife?
Here's a rare and unusual picture of Anthony Spilotro — Joe Pesce's character —
playing ping-pong. Anthony Spilotro looks kind of pudgy and baby-faced in the
picture but he was actually violent and hot-headed like Pesce portrayed him.
Maybe it's not explicit in the movie but in real life Anthony Spilotro had sexual
intercourse with Left Rosenthal's hot wife which made waves so Joey Aiuppa
okayed the execution of Anthony Spilotro. The real life hit of Anthony Spilotro
happened somewhat like in the movie except Anthony's brother Michael was
also whacked at the same time and they were not whacked in a cornfield but
were subsequently transported to a cornfield and buried there. Why was
Michael also whacked? Who cares. Furthermore, the bodies of Michael
and Anthony were soon discovered by a farmer whereas if they had been
buried a scant few yards away it would have been on remote public land
where they probably would never have been found and there would have
been no heat brought down. So the guy who chose the cornfield burial site
got whacked.