Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone seems to enjoy themselves, Paul Sagawa and Scott Alexander, who play crap-master Nathan Detroit's seedy sidekicks Nicely-Nicely and Benny, and Dave Eastman, who portrays high stakes Chicago gambler Big Julie, all turn in memorable performances. Sagawa and Alexander, clowas throughout the show, pull out all the stops in the title song as they bemoan the fate of their boss and any other guy who falls for a doll. Eastman's bellows of "Let's shoot crap!" are worthy of the evilest mobster, and the dance numbers are energetic and enthusiastic...
Into this den of iniquity marches Sergeant Sarah Brown (Nan Hughes) at the head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...
...costs in some areas are down some 40% from their peak levels of two years ago. The result, for those with the capital or a gambler's nerves, is low-cost ventures that can make even cheap energy pay off. Argues Sanford McCormick, president of Houston-based McCormick Oil & Gas Co.: "At today's costs, there's nothing wrong with the exploration business at $28 a barrel. I'll take that any time...
...NEILL'S Hughie developes three characters, although only two of them actually appear on stage. Set in the seedy lobby of a third-rate Broadway hotel during the summer of 1928, the play features an aging gambler who lost his luck when Hughie, the night clerk, died. Erie Smith (John Bottoms) tells his tale to the new night clerk, Charlie Hughes (Richard Spore) who also appears near death. Erie's monologue is interrupted briefly throughout by Charlie's thoughts, spoken aloud, and by off-stage sounds like fire engines and subway rumblings...
...Flambeur. Trench coats, neon lights, rain-washed streets. And a man of honor in a world of thieves. French Writer-Director Jean-Pierre Melville's drama of a gambler down on his luck took 27 years to arrive in the U.S.; it is a classic example of the dark, doom-dripping genre known as film noir...