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Ex-con Frank Citro wants to get out of Nevada’s Black Book. If history is any indication, the streetwise singer faces an uphill battleA few years ago, Frank Citro Jr. wanted to take his family to see Jersey Boys on the Strip. Now 73, the Jersey City native knew the original band that inspired the show, and had become close with singer Travis Cloer, who played Frankie Valli in the Vegas gig.Citro sent his wife and two grown children on without him; he knew he couldn’t go. He’s banned for life from setting foot inside any of Nevada’s 220 statewide gaming rooms. Citro belongs to a notorious club that harkens back to the historic annals of Las Vegas public life. It’s Nevada’s Black Book, officially known as the “Excluded Person’s List,” an index of undesirables, felons, and parolees blackballed by state casino regulators. For 27 years, Citro hasn’t been able to enter a casino. That means no shows, no fancy dinners, or nights out gambling with friends. The avid doo-wop s ....
Francis Ford Coppola's epic film The Godfather has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a frightening thought as I can recall queuing up to see it at a Bangkok cinema all those years ago. It was 1972, in the days long before multiplex cinemas emerged in Bangkok, so when a big film came out there would be massive queues at the theatre showing the blockbuster. ....
Sixty years ago, the grisly killings of the Riviera Hotel’s president and his wife stunned Las Vegas and would haunt the casino industry for a generationThe ranch-style home at 1115 Monte Vista in the upscale Encanto neighborhood of Phoenix was quiet when the housekeeper arrived just before noon on Wednesday, December 3, 1958. High blood pressure and a bad heart kept Mrs. Pearl Ray from working full-time, but she enjoyed cleaning and cooking for Gustave “Gus” Greenbaum and his wife, Bess. Greenbaum was president of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, but when he returned frequently to Phoenix, he liked her home cooking. Mrs. Greenbaum was very busy with her charities, but she took time Tuesday evening to give the maid a ride home at the end of a long day. They were awfully nice people, the housekeeper believed, and she’d liked working for their daughter, Mrs. Harold Tenenbom, too.Glancing at the kitchen she had cleaned a day earlier, Ray would recall to an Arizona Republic report ....