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...years since Parker Brothers made Monopoly one of the nation's most popular indoor sports, the once sumptuous streets of Atlantic City, N.J., which gave their names to the Monopoly board, have considerably deteriorated. The famed Boardwalk offers little more than whirling dervish rides, shooting galleries and stomach-eroding refreshment stands. Two of the tackier streets in town are Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues-also the cheapest buys on the Monopoly board. Thus, as part of a $1,000,000 public works improvement program, Atlantic City's public works commissioner, Arthur W. Ponzio, proposed to change the names...
...Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past her prime, and Jessica (Julie Anne Robinson), her puppet-like "stepdaughter." The four cavort from bisexual bedside to desolate beach and boardwalk. But their joyride is scarred by an undertone of tension as they blind themselves to the steady disintegration of their dream...
...Monopoly out there?" Jason Staebler asks his brother David from behind the bars of an Atlantic City jail. Now, nearly deserted in winter, long past its honky-tonk glory, Atlantic City survives like a huge, standing game board, residents and random vacationers wandering from Boardwalk to Park Place to Marvin Gardens like tokens moved at an idle throw of dice. It is simple enough, as the Staeblers will discover, to get out of jail. There is no way, though, out of the game...
They dispatched squads of youngsters to sell McGovern buttons on the streets. "Those kids literally wouldn't let people go by without buying a button," says Elstein's wife Barbara, a systems analyst. "We raised $500 that way." Elstein walked up and down the Coney Island boardwalk, interrupting the afternoon dozes of elderly Jewish voters in straw hats. "Hi," he said, extending his hand. "I'm Ken Elstein, and I'm running as a McGovern delegate." He stood for hours at Brooklyn El stations, bullhorn in hand. Comedian Sam Levenson, who lives in nearby Rockaway...
...like a greedy monopoly player who already owns Boardwalk and Park St., and is now erecting a chain of hotels, the Orange Bowl Committee launches into a three-year lease for the NCAA Soccer Championships to compliment its awesome King Orange Jamboree festivities and the increasingly peopular Orange Bowl football classic...