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Bugsy

James Toback

Photographs from the film accompany the screenplay about Benjamin Siegel, a New York gangster, who moved West and built the Flamingo Hotel, the forerunner of modern Las Vegas

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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.

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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.

— Episode: Why we can’t have nice trains

Episode: Why we can’t have nice trains

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.

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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.

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