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...Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful thing...
Leaning on my right leg to brace against the 40 mile-per-hour winds, I watched as the crew on the deck connected the F-14 "Tomcat" to the catapult. The blast shield behind the plane's twin engines rose and so did the noise...
Through my goggles, I glanced at the end of the runway, only a few hundred feet away. Returning my gaze to the F-14 sitting directly in front of me, I saw the pilot return the deck officer's salute and then, in an instant, the jet bolted from its position with lightning acceleration and flew from the carrier...
...told, either actor would be good in a less psychological, less subtle production than Oleanna, which needs all the extra subtlety it can get. The play fails at being, in Carol's terms, "not [about] my feelings, but the feelings of women, and men." Mamet himself stacks the deck too unevenly and too erratically for that. This play can only work when focused around the feelings of this one woman and this one man, but amidst all the yelling, the pushing and the politics, Oleanna lost even its human emotional core...
...fact is that fund investors have the deck stacked against them when it comes to beating the averages. Here...