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...enact plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble, it's a relatively peaceful and orderly town, with simple modern architecture and vegetable gardens - except when chairman Bruce Smith turns on his outdoor electronic keyboard: "I can make all the noise I want and entertain the fruit trees," he says...
...stop midday at the Palomino Club so the riders can check off a requisite Vegas experience. The Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club, which has a clothing boutique where men can buy outfits for their favorite performers, employs a host, Rico Connor, who liaisons with casino hosts to help them entertain their high rollers. Strip clubs are so institutionalized that an FBI sting to find Mafia connections instead discovered that two clubs were funding the campaigns of local politicians in exchange for their pushing laws to make it difficult for new clubs to open...
...sensationalism, on grotesqueness and intrigue. Teen idols and school shootings captivate far more easily than stories of increased volunteerism among young people or displays of exemplary leadership. The implicit message is clear: Money, fame or quick glory may turn heads, but quieter excellence simply doesn’t entertain...
...dark, elegantly realized landscape than fully incarnate characters. Among the things Hodges and Preston have stripped out of their film are all the usual explanations. What drove Will away from his successful criminal past? What does Charlotte Rampling's enigmatic restaurateur see in him? Instead, what we have to entertain us is style. As with Croupier, Hodges is not in any hurry to get to the point of his scenes, which are often quite underpopulated. He wants us to see rooms and streets as his characters do, in a slightly disoriented...
...Wonderful Town," which calls itself "the New York City musical," is just that. It's about New York as a magnet for ambitious young show people - a tiny space that concentrates the talents of all who come there and distills from them a popular art that will entertain the rest of America...