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DECEMBER 2004 ISSUE OF GOLF DIGEST. THIS IS THE BUDDIES ISSUE, AND THE COVER FEATURES JOE TORRE, RUDY GIULIANI, MARK WAHLBURG, AND JOE PESCI. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Automotive Design & Production, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: It's just business: you're not Joe Pesci or Robert De Niro whispering in some thugs ear. "It's just business" isn't acceptable anymore.(DUDDER)(Editorial)
Author: Christopher A. Sawyer
Publication: Automotive Design & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 118Issue: 8Page: 80(1)

Article Type: Editorial

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Hong Kong Blu-Ray/Region A pressing. See Michael Jackson as you've never seen him before in Moonwalker, a magical, musical, feature-length adventure that takes you to the moon and back with the most well-known entertainer on the planet. A true collector's treaure, Moonwalker combines Michael Jackson's greatest videos with rare clips from his early days in the Jackson 5 and live concert and Grammy performances. Also included is a wild adventure film written by Michael Jackson himself, allowing a rare and unique glimpse into the creative mind of this musical genius. Look for cameo appearances by Joe Pesci, Mick Jagger, Sean Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor and others! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Michael Jackson Moonwalker Blu Ray
Finally able to update from VHS.I would have loved some of the extra out-takes from the original release

MJ's classic
Growing up this was my favorite movie ever and this movie will make anyone who is a fan of music a Michael Jackson fan.

a must-have michael jackson's classic
excellent movie. now that i've watched since long time, it seems better and i realized that it wasnt a movie it was just a copilation of music videos.

Something which will never be done again.
I am so glad to have this original story written by Michael Jackson.The first page has a short message from Sean Lennon, and signed, saying "His Image Last Forever", if he only knew how true this is now more than ever. The pictures are great, and some of them are eerie. The last page is even more meaningful than I ever thought it would be.
The story line is so sweet, and i can't wait to read it to my grandchildren. The bad guy is played by Joe Pesci with pictures of him in it too. It is now a collectable I'm sure for there is only One Michael Jackson, and only one left that is "used, and not considered collectable." When i bought mine there were five for the price i got it at, now there is only one left at the lower price. There are others for over $275. which are collectable. I'm not sure why this one is not collectable. I understand first additions are, or signed.
It doesn't matter to me collectable or not, I have a book which will most likely never be redistributed ever again.

Not as good as I thought it would be.
Michael didn't write a story he wrote an outline of what he wanted his movie to be like and someone just cashed in by saying he "wrote" a book.

Also it isn't worth more than $20. I bought this book on this site a month before he died for $8.00(s/h included) and it's a shame to see that the sellers up their price to make money off a dead man. ... Read more

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Trade Paperback. Bound by two metal clasps (see photograph). 11" x 8 1/2", 137 one-side pages. The pages were photocopied. Despite the photocopying it appears that this was an original script made around the time of the draft date --scripts of various drafts were most likely made in small quantities and were probably reproduced for those who needed them by photocopying. "The inspiration for Casino appears to have come to Scorsese through Nicholas Pileggi, who immediately upon the completion of Good Fellas script began thinking of a film on organized crime in Las Vegas. Pileggi alerted Scorsese to newpaper articles on the professional and domestic problems of Frank 'Lefty" Rosenthal, a Las Vegas casino manager and leading mob representative in that city during the 1970s. Like Pileggi, Scorsese saw in these materials the basis of a film on the fall of Italian American crime families in Las Vegas in the period when casinos were being corporatized. Scripted by Pileggi and Scorsese, Casino was not inspired by Pileggi's book of the same title, as the screenplay and book were written concurrently. Based on research and interviews, the book is a factual account of the decline of the mob in Las Vegas, with a focus on Rosenthal. A fictional treatment of its subject, the film alters characters' names, modifies details and transforms and transposes events. Yet there remains a close congruity between the book and the film." --Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese by Robert Casillo (University of Toronto Press, 2006), page 326. ... Read more

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Casino by Nicholas Pileggi. 1996 mass market paperback published by Presses de la Cite. Text in French. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (41)

Good book, not so great condition
I love the book, and know it is an older version.But the book was in very poor condition, with some kind of stuff all over every page.I guess I couldn't expect much more from a rare book.

Las Vegas tradition of greed and corruption
Nicholas Pileggi gives us a look into american business before modern Corporate America took over the sure money-maker of Gaming in Las Vegas, the biggest venue of this industry.Casino really has some juicy details about inner workings of government, gaming, and mob operations and how they work together to make money together. The details are juicy and accurate, or as accurate as they can be, because Pileggi uses actual court document, police reports, and interviews with the players themselves.What an intriguing mix of hard-tongue business negotians, domestic unrest, and cold-blooded murder.

Still a Thrilling Ride, Las Vegas Style!
The book has some writing problems like you can't tell who's speaking to you at the time. The book is written by a variety of different voices. I loved the movie, Casino. The book fills in a lot of background details of the real-life characters and the movie starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. DeNiro plays the lead character, Frank Lefty Rosenthal. In the movie, he's Ace Rothstein. Pesci plays Tony Spilotero as Nick who will remind you of Goodfellas role. Stone plays Ginger rather than Geri.
I still find the book interesting especially about how thorough it is in regards to understanding the backgrounds of the mob, Las Vegas, Chicago, and the neighborhoods of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony Spilotero's character. I always watching the movie but I like watching it from the beginning. I can't stand watching it in the middle but Scorsese did an excellent job in maintaining the voices that inspired the movie.

Muddy Mob Story Lacks Punch
For years, Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro were two of Las Vegas's heaviest hitters, Chicago boys who moved West to take advantage of easy money and short odds. Lefty was bright and worked through the system, however corrupt. Tony was a bully who shook things up while looking out for himself.

The two characters are the center of Nicholas Pileggi's "Casino", a true-crime account of Vegas during the 1970s and 1980s, when organized crime used the gambling mecca as its own private money tree.

Published in 1995 as a tie-in to the Martin Scorsese movie, "Casino" the book is slightly different in that it offers the real story rather than the fictionalized version seen in the film. The characters don't pop off the page the way they do off the screen, but they are better grounded by reality.

As with his earlier book "Wise Guy" (made into another Scorsese movie, "Goodfellas"), Pileggi works with a lot of first-hand testimony. He captures a sense of really hearing these guys as you read the pages, tuning into their hard world. But a couple of serious problems soon present themselves.

The first is that Pileggi doesn't have the same kind of story he did with "Wise Guy". Instead of the record Lufthansa airport heist memorably depicted there, you get a long story about how Joe got mad when someone failed to show Gregory Peck's secretary a good-enough time in Vegas. Pileggi offers this as an example of the scut work that made Joe restless and difficult within the Mob, but it's also the kind of smallball that makes "Casino" feel less vital over time. People coming to this after seeing the movie are going to be surprised by the relative lack of violence here. How many times can you read about crimes that largely occurred inside balance books?

The second issue is Pileggi's way of relying almost exclusively on first-hand testimony, especially from Rosenthal. Lefty comes across as a charmer, but also by his own account too removed from the illegal aspect of the story. That may be Rosenthal's own spin; the guy who was Rosenthal's nominal boss calls him a liar and psychopath who was at the center of the mob skims. Rosenthal denies any knowledge of skims.

This flies straight in the face of the portrait Pileggi paints, of Lefty being so detail obsessed he counts blueberries in the muffins his casino restaurants serve. Yet Pileggi leaves Rosenthal's denial unchallenged in his minimal narration. In fact, he doesn't provide much textual background for anything in "Casino", including how important Rosenthal and Spilotro ultimately were to the Mob in Vegas, just that Rosenthal was good at gambling while Spilotro knocked over some jewelry stores.

Pileggi also gets a lot of mileage out of how Joe two-timed Lefty with Lefty's gorgeous gold-digger wife. Geri Rosenthal's probably the most interesting character, a force of will who demands everything she can from life. She isn't sympathetic, but neither is anyone else in this one-note book. That kind of grates after a while.

you've seen the movie, now read the book
seriously, read the book. if you liked casino but wanted a more just the facts account of the story, the book delivers. the book offers more points of views than the movie did and additional information to flesh out events. ... Read more