I guess it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of The Godfather. Best movie EVAH!
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So I was watching it a few day ago; the scene where a bunch of mobsters are symbolically carving up Havana for the mafia. Oops! 🫢 I mean for “this thing of ours.” It’s Hyman Roth’s birthday, an old Jewish, Polish immigrant who made his fortune in organized crime. (Meyer Lansky in real life. Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano associate).
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Roth’s character (brilliantly played by Lee Strasbourg) is a dinosaur with one foot in the grave, and he looks it. He’s a shriveled up, hunched over husk of a man with a heart condition. He slowly shuffles as he walks.
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But for the first time ever, I noticed the script on top of the cake: 67 años
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Wait... What? Hyman Roth’s character was only 67 years old? Aw, c’mon, that can’t be right, can it? That unwrapped mummy? <Lindner checks his own birth certificate 📃 then glances in the mirror>
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I think I’m’a gonna need some quiet time alone to process this. 😩

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