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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Ocean??€™s Eleven is a film that does not deserve a remake. The 1960 original featured the Rat Pack and an extended rodent family in a plot to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one New Year’s Eve heist. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and company used the production as a vehicle to continue on the screen what was their mantra in real life: boozing, gambling and chasing women. Juvenile, meandering and amateurish to a fault, the original film contained so few redemptive elements that only the most dedicated of audiences...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Always Double Down on 'Eleven' | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...threadbare plot and misogynist overtones, and in their place lies a taut caper tale with Soderbergh at the top of his game. George Clooney reprises the role of Danny Ocean, a con-man just out of a New Jersey jail, who assembles a crew of 10 other men (hence Ocean??€™s Eleven) to steal $160 million from an impenetrably fortified vault holding cash reserves from the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos. Ocean runs the show, bringing in card-sharp Dusty (Brad Pitt), impersonator Saul (Carl Reiner) and pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), among others, to complete...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Always Double Down on 'Eleven' | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

When hunky George Clooney and Brad Pitt were filming Ocean??€™s Eleven together, Pitt got really nervous that Clooney, the notorious prankster, was going to get him. Every night he searched his hotel room for bugs and cameras...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

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