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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:27, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
The Strip (book)
- Source: Miller, Keith (2017-09-27). "Quintessence of lust: The shabby glamour of a postmodern city". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 5974. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2024-07-13. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Gale.
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, ..."
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1. Nominator has 78 past nominations.
Cunard (talk) 12:23, 13 July 2024 (UTC).
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Overall:
Article was an interesting read! All looks good to me on this one. I prefer ALT0, although maybe take out
"the" before
"gangster"
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Bsoyka (
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Article was an interesting read! All looks good to me on this one. I prefer ALT0, although maybe take out "the" before