there was this episode of NCIS once where the director went home to Chicago to investigate the death of his boxer friend.
Leon Spinks: the distraction in the form of disrupting the boxing match. In the movie, they provide general two-man work like the distraction they pull with the balloons covering the security camera on the casino floor so Livingston can get into the video surveillance room. The two jethros are the 'hillbilly, gear-headed types' who are hired to look after miss daisy. Two Jethros: refers to the Malloy brothers, Turk and Virgil. under the guise of the SWAT truck, Danny, Rusty and the gang can escape without a hitch. Driving Miss Daisy is a movie about a woman who has to get a chauffeur to drive her around. Named for the famous American football player.Ī Miss Daisy: references the SWAT truck our con men used as their getaway car. In the beginning of Ocean's Eleven (2001), Rusty tells Danny they will need 'a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever!' These are references to old cons from the 20th century and Rusty just gave away how they will rob the casino.Ī Jim Brown: the confrontation between Frank Catton and Linus Caldwell, staged to distract Terry Benedict so that Linus can lift the security codes to the vault.
