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...Casino Royale has to stick to the Fleming plot; it must also be Basic Bond. (The movie is so personality-split that 007 could refer to the number of the hero's warring personalities.) In this case, that demands not just the sneering villain (Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, banker to the terrorist élite) and the tempting females, one blond (Ivana Milicevic) and one brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand...
...election of Ortega - who won with 38% of the vote, about 8 points ahead of his U.S.-backed opponent, conservative banker Eduardo Montealegre - is no doubt a concern. After he and Sandinista guerrillas toppled Nicaragua's brutal dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, in 1979, Ortega led an authoritarian, Soviet-backed regime that wrecked the economy and fought a civil war with U.S.-backed contra rebels that killed some 50,000 people. Ortega was finally ousted in a 1990 election, and for the past 16 years, during which he twice failed to recapture the presidency, he seemed little more than a relic...
...Peter Mayle, who wrote the source material, a best-selling novel of the same name. However, the change of setting from the United States to Europe adds nuance to the plot and updates what is otherwise essentially a rerun. The noirishly-named Max Skinner (Crowe) is a shrewd London banker who revels in conquering his competition through ruthless and unethical means. He’s also a stubborn misogynist, adding to our contempt. Upon the death of his uncle (Albert Finney), he inherits a château in France. Cue beautiful sunsets and rememberances of childhood. The movie alternates between...
...wealthy banker, the 51-year-old Montealegre served as senior adviser to the president and foreign minister in 1998. From 2002 to 2003 he served as finance minister...
...Eliot Street space, across from The Charles Hotel, the store’s managers had planned to serve pancakes as early as June 2006. Delays in the shipment of kitchen equipment pushed back the opening date to this fall, and just last week the owner of the property, Robert Banker ’58, said that he was aiming to have the store open by New Year’s Day. The store will open at 7 a.m. on the 20th, but store officials are planning a special “dry run” on the day before...