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...them, add panty hose, and you've caught the essence of "Up Your Ante!") Slutty Mona Lott hits it off with Collier Bluff (Todd Forman), the dorky Tropicana dealer who "doesn't know his ace from a hole in the ground." Compulsive name-dropper Liza Lott goes for compulsive gambler Roland Dice (Don Davis). Screechy Cara Lott goes for geeky Brandon Ewday (Ian Henderson...
...Julian Schnabel have fallen off the wall . . . L.A. Gear, the trendy sneaker outfit that not long ago talked of whipping Reebok and Nike, has proved that when it comes to athletic shoes, fashion is fleeting . . . Louisiana voters were spared the ex-Klansman and instead got the twice-indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former Defense Secretary and bank executive, claimed ignorance about the B.C.C.I. scandal, but investigators were more than a little skeptical . . . Germany found that reunions can be angst ridden and downright divisive -- not to mention expensive . . . But that didn't mean anyone wanted Erich Honecker back, except...
...graduate student at Harvard and as naval attache in Washington. And as executive officer of Japan's naval flight school, he had learned the new religion of air power. He loved poker, bridge and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of his top aides: "He had a gambler's heart...
...best for the state. His sweeping reform policies, like restructuring the tax system and overhauling education, may have been Louisiana's castor oil, but voters refused to swallow it. That leaves them with a choice between Duke, who is currently a state representative, and Edwards, a high-stakes gambler with Gucci tastes, a greased-lightning wit and a reputation for skirt chasing. Bewailing the dilemma facing Louisiana voters the day after the Oct. 19 primary -- in which Edwards got 34% of the vote, Duke 32% and Roemer 27% -- the New Orleans Times- Picayune editorialized, "Of all the excesses that have...
...Long managed to touch most of those bases: he loved nothing better than boar hunting and horse racing, and he ended his life in a steamy affair with a New Orleans stripper named Blaze Starr. Ex-Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping, hell-raising ethos was Buddy Roemer, with all his dour talk of austerity, responsibility...