Geri McGee story. In the film, the Rosenthals only have one daughter, Amy, while in real life McGee had three children. The film also implied that McGee was a part-time hustler (and perhaps a prostitute), and that her friend and lover Lester Diamond (played by James Woods) was her pimp and mentor since she was 14. In actuality, there is no evidence that McGee ever was a prostitute. The script also changed the couple's names from Geri McGee and Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal to Ginger McKenna and Sam "Ace" Rothstein (played by Robert De Niro), and Lenny Marmor to Lester Diamond. Geri McGee
Vivian Rothstein feminist history film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Vivian Rothstein Vivian Rothstein, née Leburg (born 1945) is an activist. She was part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1965. In 1967 she was part of a peace delegation to North Vietnam, and her meeting then with the Vietnamese Women’s Union inspired her to become one of the founders of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. The Chicago Women's Liberation Union was a feminist organization which was founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. Rothstein was its first staff member, organized its representative decision-making part, and aided the establishment