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...that their nation harbors an evil entity capable of stealing billions while destroying the honor of public officials, the honesty of businessmen and sometimes the lives of ordinary citizens. The evidence that it does these things and more has become all too credible. The image persists of the colorful gambler who speaks quaint Runyonesque, or the romantic loner ? Jay Gatsby, say ? who has his own somehow justifiable morality, or of the paternalistic despot who challenges society by his own peculiar code...
Apparently, a particular kind of gambler's delusion is involved in queueing...
...flash, he makes the existential choice to completely break with his past. Ferdinand becomes Pierrot Le Fou. He acts. He grabs a huge chunk of cake, flings it at the Beautiful People, and bolts out the door into a world of ecstasy and destruction. Like a desperate gambler, he is going for broke. As with Michael Poiccard in Breathless, it is all or nothing...
...Idea Gambler. Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray...
...Hurwitz, with energy and boyish sex appeal, played The Young Gambler framed for raping a pick-up, whose request for money he had refused. However, Marcie Kaplan was too pretty to understand the lonely jail maid who thinks herself ugly and falls in love with Hurwitz. She resorts to cliched gestures of gawkiness and insecurity, like sticking her stomach...