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...featuring some cinematic swank and a lot of expensive heavy metal, that are available only on the bmwfilms.com website. With a budget in the low seven figures and only a few company rules--the recurring character of the Hire (played with rugged poignancy by British actor Clive Owen of Croupier) and, well, a BMW here and there--each auteur can put his stamp on his project. "It's a chance to make a student film again," says director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club), the project's executive producer, "but also to have the resources, to have the cranes...
...here we are, careening into July, and I've seen only two movies since Memorial Day. And those weren't even "real" movies; they were low-budget art-house "films" made with grainy resolution and subpar sound. It's not that I didn't enjoy "The Croupier" and "Hamlet," (OK, I didn't really enjoy "The Croupier" so much), it's just that I've been so well conditioned by the Hollywood machine to expect blockbusters from May through September. (Think "Independence Day," "Deep Impact," "Star Wars".) And now I find myself fighting off low-grade depression...
...Annie 38. Sierra __, which is edging toward civil war 40. Credit-checking org. 41. __ es Salaam, Tanzania 42. Source of Italian bubbly 45. J. Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries...
...Wood had been asked by the White House if there was anything in her background that might be embarrassing to the President, she answered that while pursuing a master's degree at the London School of Economics, she trained for five days, without pay, as a Playboy Club bunny croupier. That information surfaced Saturday in the New York Times...
...laid back here. The aggression level is zero; nobody bothers you. The favorite late-night game in San Pedro is called Chicken Drop: Mother Nature's own organic form of roulette. A pit is marked out in 100 numbered squares, 10 by 10. One bets on the numbers. The croupier takes a live chicken by the legs, blows sharply up its behind and throws it into the ring. The first number the chicken defecates on wins. The winning number takes all. It will be a while before the Mob moves in on Belizean gambling...