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The book, which was mentioned as a movie, detailed the story of gangster Ben Siegel who helped conceptualize the Las Vegas Strip and dreamed of monumental developments there like high-speed rail.
I was at the Hoover Dam at the top of yesterday's show and I want to go back there for a minute, not physically but through a movie from the late 1900s called Bugsy.
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The book, which was mentioned as a movie, detailed the story of gangster Ben Siegel who helped conceptualize the Las Vegas Strip and dreamed of monumental developments there like high-speed rail.
I was at the Hoover Dam at the top of yesterday's show and I want to go back there for a minute, not physically but through a movie from the late 1900s called Bugsy.
It's about an American gangster named Ben Bugsy-Siegel who helped dream up the Las Vegas Strip.