Word: casablanca
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...Roppongi, where she eventually found work at a hostess bar called Casablanca, is the neon-lit playground of this civilization in decline, where Japanese Neros go to fiddle while their economy burns, where saked-up salarymen nuzzle Russian strippers and tea-haired twenty-somethings look to score designer drugs. The district is home to scores of dives, cafés, strip clubs, casinos and after-hours clubs catering to foreigners and to Japanese who like to hang out with them. The crowd - American bond-traders in Brooks Brothers suits, visiting models, second-rate rock stars, African bouncers, Israeli street vendors...
...considered, and promptly vetoed, Daedalus and Casablanca as a few alternatives...
...just the look that makes this happen. There is also the music. Max Steiner, who wrote it, was a consummate Hollywood professional with credits stretching from "Gone With the Wind" to "Casablanca," from "The Big Sleep" to "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." There's no space to do him justice here; suffice it to say that his score for "Kong" is unprecedented...
...most vivid memory [at the Brattle] is standing up to sing when Victor Laslow conducts the orchestra at Ricks in the 'Marseilles' [in Casablanca]," says Dr. Thomas...
There is gambling in Casablanca; there is corruption in Chinatown; and there may be something fishy on Survivor too. A suit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by ex-Survivor contestant STACEY STILLMAN claims show producer Mark Burnett "improperly abused his relationships with the contestants" by persuading Sean Kenniff and Dirk Been to vote her, rather than ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, off the island. Similar charges were leveled last year in The Stingray, a book about the show by investigative reporter Peter Lance. Stillman, seeking unspecified damages, says a letter from Been to Burnett exists to support...