I recently watched a really fun movie that I checked out on DVD from the library. Last Vegas stars Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. Best friends since childhood, the four "older gentlemen" decide to fly to Las Vegas to celebrate Billy's (Michael Douglas') marriage to his long-time, 32-year-old girlfriend. Billy is the group's sworn bachelor and the group promises to stop acting their ages and relive their glory days in Vegas before the big wedding. When they arrive, they realize that the decades have changed them and Sin City and they test the boundaries of their friendship as they take Vegas by storm. The movie is a hilarious exploration of life and what it means to grow old gracefully. The movie is rated PG-13 and contains special features such as filmmaker commentary and stories about "The Flatbush Four."
Showing posts with label Las Vegas. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Last Vegas
I recently watched a really fun movie that I checked out on DVD from the library. Last Vegas stars Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. Best friends since childhood, the four "older gentlemen" decide to fly to Las Vegas to celebrate Billy's (Michael Douglas') marriage to his long-time, 32-year-old girlfriend. Billy is the group's sworn bachelor and the group promises to stop acting their ages and relive their glory days in Vegas before the big wedding. When they arrive, they realize that the decades have changed them and Sin City and they test the boundaries of their friendship as they take Vegas by storm. The movie is a hilarious exploration of life and what it means to grow old gracefully. The movie is rated PG-13 and contains special features such as filmmaker commentary and stories about "The Flatbush Four."
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Try a "Rat Pack Mystery" on for Size
Robert J. Randisi's Hey There (You with the Gun in Your Hand) is one of those rare gems in the mystery world. This book truly lives up to its name-- it is the third installment in Randisi's "Rat Pack Mystery" series. If you love reading about the Rat Pack (and/or the time period in which they existed), you must give this book a try! Randisi captures perfectly the timbre of the times in which the members of the Rat Pack existed. He also makes his portrayal of the Rat Pack members believable. The reader finishes the book thinking that he/she really knows Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. This story is set in Las Vegas in 1961, at the
Sands Casino where pit boss Eddie Gianelli is asked by Frank Sinatra to help get rid of an embarrasing photo of Sammy. The pay-off and photo pick-up goes hay-wire and soon Eddie and his friend, New York tough guy Jerry Epstein, are up to their elbows in dead bodies! Randisi's novels resemble the drugstore pulp-fiction of past times, but there is enough description of glitz, glamour, corruption and crime to please any mystery fan. The library also owns the first book in the series, Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die.
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