The fall of 1995 saw another Scorsese telling of mob life, this time in Las Vegas. De Niro portrayed a character based on real-life figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal in Casino, co-starring Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci. Michael Mann’s Heat followed that same year, with De Niro re-teaming ...
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Often considered a spiritual sequel toGoodfellas,Casinoexplores much of the same territory but this time De Niro's Sam "Ace" Rothstein is at the center of the film's story. The film showcases the violent world of the mafia's decades-long stranglehold on Las Vegas. De Niro's Rothstein is...
Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein, sent by the mob to run its Las Vegas operations, in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 drama “Casino.” The film was based on Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book about Vegas underworld figure Frank Rosenthal, who ran several casinos in the 1970s and 1980s...
20 Years Ago, A Forgotten Robert De Niro Horror Movie Was A Huge Box Office Hit (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)Horror movies may not often get a whole ...
Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the novel on which the movie was based. The movie follows the life of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) who got mixed up with the mob in 1955 while he was still attending high school in New York City. Lorraine Bracco, Joe Pesci, and Robert De N...
You know you'll never have to watch him joke about his prostate with Morgan Freeman in a movie about old guys vacationing in Las Vegas. He's never going to be a retired black-ops agent with something to prove, or a terminally ill guy with something to prove. He's never going to ...
Robert De Niro is an American actor known for his uncompromising portrayals of violent and abrasive characters in such movies as Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) and for his comic depictions of cranky men later in his career.