. >> in the 1970, franks rosenthal secretly van variableries las vegas casinos, include the stardust, the fremont hotel and the hacienda. the character ways based on him and sharon stone's based on his wife. joe pesci's character was their partner. for much of the '70s much of las vegas was secretly run out of his home. brian, we're tess infamous lefty rosenthal's home built in 1974? >> yes, he passed away, whats seven, eight years ago, i believe? >> 2008. these are the original doors to the house. they're bulletproof. as you know, he was being chased by the mob and the fbi and everybody else. >> just about everybody. >> so the doors are bulletproof both the entry doors to the courtyard, and they've remained unchanged since the house was built. this is the window, that faces las vegas country club, one of the oldest golf courses in las vegas. >> the window is also bulletproof. the original window, lefty was comen down the stairs, the mob tried to shoot him from across the golf course. the original bullet mark is in the glass. it's amazing how these guys lived, you know? >> going into

you've probably seen me on "the merv griffin show" or live onstage at the fabulous stardust resort and such tricks as "skateboarding ghost," "the amazing cordless telephone,"

so we are not only figuratively, but quite literally, stardust. charlie: finally this.he notion of you, do you have things you want to accomplish beyond being at the end of a phone with somebody who asks a question and you give credibility to whatever their project is by giving them direction? neil: people have seen me on tv in so many ways, shapes, and sizes. someone asked me who is my agent. my agent must be the universe because there is no human being there who is doing this. wasof my favorite quotes uttered by horace mann, an educator, who said, be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity. i want that on my epitaph. i want that on my tombstone. be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity. neil: that can be on any level. that can be raising kids who are responsible. that is a very broadly defined victory. i'm not the first to say this. at least leave the world a little better off for you having lived in it. why not? .lean up your mess and after you've cleaned up the room that you just lived in, maybe leave a flower behind.

there is a joke in stardust memories.eople have this thing they say to me, i love your work, especially the standup. which is like, what about all those other things i do? i wanted to make a movie as good as the standup. charlie: was the fact that you were so good at standup, that you worked so hard at it, that you crafted it, you hadn't done that in your movies before? you treated movies with the same reference as you treat standup? chris: it's not even reverence. to not care sove much and not care what people think and not care about judgment. moviesu do a movie, -- are amazing. i love doing them. but every 10 minutes of the movie is tested. i have always been a horrible test taker. so when you are writing a movie a lot of times, you are editing yourself. you are thinking about the test. oh, they are not going to like this. this is going to test low. they do not test plays. we test them in front of audiences. you don't test every line. you don't test stand up. you test it in front of the audience but not the strict test