Movies And Magazines For Seasoned Gamblers
Royale” and the “Ocean’s Eleven” series mirror real life and life in the game with a sensitivity that only the expert eye of directors like Robert Luketic and Steven Soderbergh can produce. “21”, in fact, adds an extra dimension to the already thrilling theme of gambling, as the people involved are MIT mathematicians – now involved with numbers and counting in more ways than one.
Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece “Casino” is in a different league altogether, featuring superstars such as Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci in a film remake of Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book of the same name. Pileggi’s book is based on two real-life characters every gambler will be familiar with – Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, and Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilotro.
Rosenthal, named Sam “the Ace” Rothstein in the movie, was a gambling handicapper who ran three Las
