Seven year ago....... My Grandma took me to a very small movie rentals store. It had a very small collection of movies. A movie caught my eye, It was CASINO staring Robert De Niro, Joe PePesci, and Sharon Stone. I remember that a few months ago watching a part of Casino while waiting for one of my favorite TV show Big Love. For some reason after my show was over I never turn back to Casino. So I always wanted to watch Casino all all the way through. So I ask my Grandma if we can rent it, and she told me sure....since I was 20. So that night we made Mexican tacos and put in Casino to watch. When I saw it was base on
true events, I become very interested in the movie... I know it was acting but I must say I was sacred of all the killing at the ending and end up sleeping with my Grandma. The next day I woke up wanting to find out more about Casino and the true story so I look into it, - just a little.
A few months past and I find out that my brith Dad has stage 4 cancer, I dope everything that I was doing and took care of him all by myself for a few mouths until he past on.... I was so sad and lonely it was 2011 my Dad die, two of my all time TV shows, Smallville and Big Love ended... It was time for me to find something new to get into, and somehow I don’t know why but I ended up getting into the Mafia and was learning all about it, seeing every mafia movie that I can. I even bought Casino and I watch it almost everyday. I became like the great chemistry between Nicky and Ginger.
THEN SOMETHING REAL BIG HAPPEN....... A TURING POINT IN MY LIFE!
A few months past and I find out that my brith Dad has stage 4 cancer, I dope everything that I was doing and took care of him all by myself for a few mouths until he past on.... I was so sad and lonely it was 2011 my Dad die, two of my all time TV shows, Smallville and Big Love ended... It was time for me to find something new to get into, and somehow I dont know why but I ended up getting into the Mafia and was learning all about it, seeing every mafia movie that I can. I even bought Casino and I watch it almost everyday. haracter Frank Marino from Casino, was based on Frank Cullotta. I got excited! I always though it would be very cool to meet a real-life ex-mobster. When my party arrived at the museum, a family member of mine, told the parking attendant that it was my Birthday. The parking attendant wish me, a Happy Birthday and he let us in to park. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the parking attendant got on his walkie talkie. After we parked the car, the parking attendant approached me and told me to go right in the gift shop because, Frank Cullotta was waiting for me to wish me a Happy Birthday. I couldn't believe my luck or this parking attendant was full of it. To this day, I still don't know. So we went in, waiting for some friends to show up while we got our tickets. In the gift shop entryway, there was a sign out saying that Frank Cullotta was there signing his book. A friend of mine took a picture of me by the sign. When we went in, That was when I first saw Frank, sitting there signing his books and taking pictures. There was a long line to meet him. So we decided to look around the shop until the line went down. After a bit there was no line, so I walked up and stood behind that person whom was having their copy of Frank's book sign by him. After that person was done I thought I was next to meet Frank, as I started to walk up to him, but it had turned out that the man next to me was there before me and was next. That was kind of embarrassing. I let him go ahead and waited my turn. When I finally walked up to meet Frank. He stood up and shook my hand. Then Frank asked me if I wanted a picture with him, and I said "Sure" so we took one, but some reason it didn't turn out, then we took another one and to my surprise Frank hugged me as the picture was being taken. After that, Frank and I started to talk while the picture was printing. I told him that I'm a writer working on my first book about the Mafia. He was interested he then gave me the photo of us for free since it was my birthday and signed it for me. Afterwards we wished each other good-bye, and I went into the museum with my party. Little did I know, I will be seeing him again. A few weeks later, I went to a book store and bought Frank's book "Cullotta" and I read it. After I've finished the book, I thought what if he was on Facebook. So I found his Facebook fan page and got up the courage to message him telling him whom I was, and that I've enjoyed his book and meeting him. A couple of days later, he replied to my message, and that is how our friendship began and through Frank...
In september of 2012 I was in my room and I got this crazy idea to write this fanfic, (for my friends whom dont know what a fanfic is, Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic or fic) is fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather than by its creator. It is a popular form of fan labor, particularly since the advent of the Internet.) I had this Idea to have Nicky’s son and Ginger’s daughter find out that Nicky and Ginger was star cross lovers that take them on a journey to the past. All of my family and friends LOVE IT and I decide to take what I already wrote off of a fanfic site... continued my story, renaming every person and turning it a novel. I finish it and had it edited.
I decide to name it OMERTA AFFAIR and it came out on Amazon in July 2013, Frank and I keep in touch and I find out that he was getting all the former mobsters - FBI - CIA & law enforcement all sit together and talk about the good old days in one ball room.... It was MOB CON..... Frank got me a table to sell my book Omerta Affair at Mob-Con.
Going to mob-con was pure joy.... I met some people that I am very close to, to this day. I will write about it some other time about how Mob-Con also play a huge part of my life someday, too much to tell. A few months went by, I began to wonder what if I took out the colorful language and made the story’s main love scene more romantic. With that idea, why not re-name it something that a woman would really want to pick up to read when they saw it. I retitled it TIMESLESS ENDINGS and put it on sell on Amazon. What a fabulous experience this has been!
So anyway this is the story how watching a a simple movie called CASINO change my life and had this major impact on me forever.
