by Kristen Peterson

It's 1970, and Neil Scartozzi is cutting hair in a Detroit bookie joint that doubles as a barbershop, feeling disillusioned about the mob life he's facing and wondering how to get out. He's not made. Hasn't killed anyone, only gone to collect money. And the "life," he says, isn't for him.

So one day he picks up a Las Vegas newspaper left behind by a customer, reads the classifieds and there it is, as if blazing in neon: "Barber stylist wanted. MGM Grand Hotel Las Vegas Nevada." A 19-year-old Scartozzi makes the long-distance call, heads to Vegas dressed "sugar sharp," is hired and returns to Detroit to sell everything he owns. 

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Source: http://lasvegasweekly.com/