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Figgis is a refusenik in every way. Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie...
...must spend at least 30 years in jail and pay a fine of $10,000. She did not face the death penalty because her crime did not contain the aggravating circumstances required for such punishment under Texas law. Saldivar shot Selena after the singer went to a Corpus Christi motel to fire her for embezzling...
...wolfing down Big Macs. "Newt isn't rich," says Jim Baen, the nonrich publisher of Gingrich's novel 1945, who should not be confused with the very rich publisher of Gingrich's nonfiction title To Renew America, Rupert Murdoch. Says Baen: "He should flaunt his poverty and stay at Motel...
...Desert Inn Motel, the gossip is of the woman who swims naked in the pool across the street and of the Chinese and Indians who are buying up local motels. Paul Coyle, a 59-year-old retired welder with a long white beard and trembling hands, lives on Social Security and drinks a bottle of 151-proof Bacardi a day. He moved into the motel three months ago, after living in a casino parking lot for two years in his 1967 Cadillac. When his wife left him in 1986, Coyle had the names of his 16 children tattooed...
...loners, a motel offers cheap, hassle-free comfort. Jerald Doherty, 39, moved to the Desert Inn a year ago, after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want...