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The article notes: "En route, we survey a dismal period when Sin City tried to pass itself off as a kind of Disneyland (this is the word that is spat out by Robert De Niro's Ace Rothstein a character strongly based on the real-life mobster Meyer Lansky, one of the great crooked visionaries behind modern Las Vegas--in Martin Scorsese's Casino) ... Even if Stefan Al doesn't show much sign of being really interested in such things, there is a wealth of incidental human detail on show: ... to Lansky (De Niro played him, too, in Donnie Brasco) walking his shih tzu to his regular poolside slot at the Riviera, ..."
ALT1: ... that The Strip documents how a gangster would walk his Shih Tzu near the pool while visiting a casino?
Overall: Article was an interesting read! All looks good to me on this one. I prefer ALT0, although maybe take out "the" before "gangster"? Bsoyka (t • c • g) 18:12, 13 July 2024 (UTC)