Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal The Real “Casino” Rosenthal
PLAYER INTERVIEW: Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal ROBERTO SANTIAGO - cardozaplayer.com . There are three kinds of people—those who don't know who Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal is, those who are honored to be in his presence, and those who whisper nervously when they catch sight of him. It is the reaction Rosenthal experiences when he enters Prime 112 restaurant, the expensive steak house he frequents almost every day in Miami Beach, located several blocks from his new multimillion dollar two-bedroom condominium. Rosenthal is worthy of nervous whispers. He is, after all, the man Robert De Niro portrayed in the violent 1995 mobster film, “Casino,'' a film revered among those who remember Vegas back in the day. In the Martin Scorsese-directed epic, De Niro portrays Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a mob-connected professional sports handicapper and bookmaker from Chicago who makes his way to Las Vegas and becomes, through the help of midwestern mob bosses, the most powerful and feared cas...