Casino Page #3

BORELLI (O.S.)

When you've finished with him, I

want him.

PISCANO'S MOTHER

(Carrying a plate of

food to the table

where BORELLI and

FORLANO are seated.)

Here you are, gentlemen.

NICKY (V.O.)

And nobody got a Teamsters' loan,

unless the guys in this room knew

they were gonna get their little

suitcases.

FORLANO gets up from the table and walks toward NANCE.

NICKY (V.O.)

Guys like this antique here [FORLANO],

out of Detroit. Or especially guys

like Remo Gaggi, the outfit's top

boss.

NANCE embraces REMO GAGGI who's seated on a couch, and sits

across from him.

GAGGI:

You got a round figure on it?

NICKY (V.O.)

Definitely the most important guy in

this room.

NANCE:

(Picking up the

suitcase)

About twenty pounds.

GAGGI:

So?

NANCE:

That's around seven hundred thousand.

GAGGI:

Uh-huh, good.

NANCE opens the case to reveal the money.

ANDY STONE:

(Off-screen, from

following scene)

I know it's a little early for Las

Vegas...

INT. TANGIERS EXECUTIVE OFFICE PRESS CONFERENCE/BANQUET ROOM -

DAY:

Camera tilts down a model of the Tangiers Hotel and Casino,

then reveals the cover of Business Week magazine with a

drawing of PHILIP GREEN, a young corporate type, smiling out

under the headline: 'Philip Green, Vegas Wunderkind'.

STONE (O.S.)

...but I do want to welcome the ladies

and gentlemen of the gaming industry.

On ANDY STONE, a middle-aged man at a podium giving a speech

while GREEN, seated at a table, looks on. PHOTOGRAPHERS flash

their cameras. ACE and SHERBERT, sitting next to GREEN, also

watch the photo op ceremony.

ACE (V.O.)

As far as the world was concerned

Andy Stone, the head of the Teamsters'

Pension Fund, was a legitimate guy.

STONE:

This is a very auspicious occasion.

ACE (V.O.)

A powerful man.

STONE:

Philip, if you would rise.

Green stands up.

ACE (V.O.)

He even played golf with the

President.

STONE:

On behalf of the Teamsters' Pension

Fund, it is my pleasure to present

to you . . .

ACE (V.O.)

But Andy also took orders. And when

he was told to give a pension fund

loan to Philip Green...

STONE:

(Handing GREEN a large

cardboard facsimile

'check')

...this check for $62,700,000 for

the new Tangiers.

GREEN:

Thank you.

ACE (V.O.)

...he did what he was told.

PHILIP GREEN, who is now the head of the Tangiers Hotel and

Casino Corporation, is standing at the podium giving a speech.

NICKY (V.O.)

Now here was the perfect front man.

I mean, what the f*** else could he

be? He didn't know too much. He

didn't want to know too much,

especially that the bosses made the

Teamsters lend him the money. He

wanted to believe the Teamsters gave

him all that f***in' money 'cause he

was smart.

An exploding flash bulb fills the screen.

GREEN:

...I say that, knowing full well

just how much competition we have in

this great city.

EXT. CHEAP MOTEL OFF HIGHWAY - DAY

We see a MAN and a WOMAN swimming underwater. Camera reveals

that they are in a motel swimming pool with glass portholes.

Expensive cars are parked outside one of the rooms. Hoods

stand around outside the door.

NICKY (V.O.)

And where they got Green from - who

the f*** knows? All I know is that

Green was an Arizona real estate

hustler, who barely had enough gas

money to come and pick up his own

f***in' check...

INT. TANGIERS EXECUTIVE OFFICE PRESS CONFERENCE/BANQUET ROOM -

DAY:

We return to the press conference. Photographers snap away.

In the background are six-foot blow-ups of the Business Week

cover. The camera moves past GREEN, CAPP and several other

men, past SHERBERT, to ACE.

NICKY (V.O.)

Now, all they needed was somebody

they could trust to run the casino.

And who better than Ace? I mean, he

was already in Vegas a couple of

years and he had the f***in' place

clocked.

FREEZE FRAME ON ACE.

INT. TANGIERS SWIMMING POOL - DAY

Camera looks straight down from the top of a hotel to a large

pool area.

NICKY (V.O.)

But typical Ace...

INT. TANGIERS SWIMMING POOL/POOLSIDE - DAY

STONE, in a bathing suit and robe, sits on a lounge chair

with a telephone. ACE, in sports clothes, sits on another

chair.

NICKY (V.O.)

...give him a shot at runnin' a casino

and he tries to talk you out of it.

ACE:

You know, I don't know if I could do

this even if I wanted to. The Gaming

Commission would never give me a

license. I have at least two dozen

gambling and bookmaking pinches on

me.

STONE:

You don't have to have a license to

work in a casino. All you gotta do

is apply for one. The state law says

you can work in a casino while they're

processing your application. They

got a ten-year backlog.

ACE:

But what happens when they do find

out?

STONE:

Why would they want to find out?

We're puttin' a hundred million into

this desert here. Why would they

want to lock us out? And besides,

they'll never find out. All you gotta

do is keep changing your job title.

Like, uh, from Casino Executive to

Food and Beverage Chairman. And what

happens it, they take your

application, they put it at the bottom

of the pile. I know guys workin'

there for thirty years, don't have a

license.

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