harry reid & casino the movie

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was reading the imdb page about the movie casino and saw this bit of info:

Dick Smothers' character, Senator, is partly based on Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who was chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. The scene in which Sam Rothstein is denied a license by the Nevada Gaming Commission is based on a December 1978 hearing when Harry Reid was the commission's chairman; some of Reid's statements are used in Smothers' dialogue. The scene was shot in an actual courtroom in the Clark County Courthouse, which was later closed in 2005.

did I just miss how greatly connected reid was back then or is this common knowledge?

 

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At first I was all like .. but that movie was made in 1974 then I realized it was referring to Casino and not the Godfather part II.

I'm a dummy.