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Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Born: February 22, 1933 (age 93)
Bio: Nicholas Pileggi is an American producer, author and screenwriter.
Known for:
  1. Wiseguy (1985)
  2. Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (1995)
  3. Goodfellas (1989)
  4. Blye, private eye (1976)
  5. Casino: miłość i honor w Las Vegas (1995)

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