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...years ago. Add to this mix the stunning Sharon Stone, whose acting ability is finally apparent, and stylish Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson and it is clear that any fault of "Casino" is not due to a lack of talent on the set. Rather it is this film's ambitious script which gambles...
When these characters are driven by greed and last--those traits which are celebrated in Vegas--this film works. But soon the main characters lose their passion and the script, by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi, can offer them no real options. In "Casino" everyone is content to gamble without worrying. When Ace, Ginger and Nicky finally do lose everything, it's too late--the audience has stopped caring. The impression which remains is a richness of atmosphere which is sickening...
This weakness is probably a fault of the script, as Pascale Bussieres's performance is otherwise marvelous. Her portrayal of Camille reveals both the character's strong sexual feelings and her reluctance to violate her religious principles. As Petra, Rachel Crawford is a convincing lesbian, without making that the character's defining feature. She is so appealingly whimsical that we can see exactly why Camille is attracted...
...derogatory title was a play I had directed called "Women and Wallace" about a Jewish kid grappling with his relationship with women after his mother's suicide. I was judged, instead of the play, without taking into account the whole story of Wallace or asking for clarification of the script...
...team of Australian scientists has finally solved the mystery. The virus that the donor contracted and then passed on, the team reported last week in Science, contains flaws in its genetic script that appear to have rendered it innocuous. "Not only have the recipients and the donor not progressed to disease for 15 years," marvels molecular biologist Nicholas Deacon of Australia's Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, "but the prediction is that they never will." Deacon speculates that this "wimpy" HIV may even be a natural inoculant that protects its carriers against more virulent strains of the virus, much...