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...between the two. The tension between Stillman and Vinson mounts as both enter the World Series of Poker Tournament and end up face-to-face at the final table. Several big-name poker players appear as themselves in the film, including Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari. Actress Jennifer Tilly, who won the 2005 Ladies No Limit Hold’em competition, plays Karen “Razor” Jones. Although she is only featured in a few scenes, Tilly gives by far the best performance...
...take so long? Who's involved? "We grew up, certainly I grew up, thinking that space was our future," says Jim Van Laak, the philosophical manager for space-station operations at NASA. "You look back at movies like '2001: A Space Odyssey?' and we thought we'd have a colony on the moon by this point. The practical matter is that it's a lot harder than we thought, and we have to take one step at a time. The technology, the understanding of how to keep people alive in space for long periods of time comes slowly...
...swung its solar panels out of alignment with the sun, causing power to flicker and fade, and with it the TV monitor Solovyev was using to steer the cargo ship. But the veteran cosmonaut stayed cool, flying the craft blind until it was safely docked. That, said James van Laak, one of NASA's Mir managers, "was an excellent piece of piloting...
...unavoidable wear and tear. Improvised fixes have helped the Russians solve problems--at least temporarily--as they have arisen, and experts say that this handyman approach is appropriate for a ship designed for years of use. "The space station is a different vehicle from the shuttle," says James van Laak, a NASA deputy director. "You tolerate a different set of failures...
Mink in Hi-Fi (Monique Van Vooren; RCA Victor). Belgian-born Show Girl Van Vooren's voice has the tinny resonance of a sound heard through a drainpipe, and her accent in English is an astonishing blend of Gaul and Georgia Cracker: "Laak a queen in the royal foah postah . . . Ah can face zat lovely place called bed." The combination is disastrous in the slow, sexy register, but in such shouting numbers as Le Rififi and My Man Is Good, V.V. carries the show on muscle alone...
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