Word: costas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warren Eugene's more grandiose plans. Eugene commissioned a team of programmers to design a full-service casino-software package that he wants to license to interested parties. His price: $250,000, plus a 15% cut of the take. He says half a dozen countries, including Cuba and Costa Rica, are interested. The plan is to link the offshore computers together to form a "virtual strip" in cyberspace. Don't like the odds offered in Casino Cuba? Click a button, and you're in virtual St. Martin. Eugene is also mocking up theme-oriented casino worlds, such as Space World...
directed by Constantine Costa-Gavras...
...enemas. Robin Williams turned to sentimental pabulum like "Dead Poets' Society" and "Awakenings." Lemmon turned from Billy Wilder comedies like "Some Like It Hot" to appalling pieces of work like 1973's abominable "Save the Tiger," (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor) and Constantine Costa-Gavras' 1982 "Missing...
...Costa-Gavras, who directed the superb political thriller "Z," flails about here with no sense of proportion or subtlety. Though Costa-Gavras manages some excellent atmospheric effects, everything is overstated and obvious, and the film's messages seem to be written in big letters across the actors' broad and innocent brows...
...Costa said she thought the structure of TBTNwas an important outlet for participants...