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...than anyone else, and yet no two businessmen could be less alike. Wynn is Vegas royalty, the artist who rejuvenated the Strip by going upmarket in tone with the Bellagio, which showcased Van Goghs and Cezannes and Degas's dancers instead of topless showgirls. He lost the place to raider Kirk Kerkorian, who took over Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, and booted Wynn, who scored a $6.4 billion payout but still had a score to settle. Last year Wynn returned with the new Wynn Las Vegas: more hushed, more exclusive...
...Agreed to star in Home Raider: The Husband Snatcher...
...movie gods. So when Daniel Craig was offered the role of 007 in Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond film, he was torn. Should he decline and keep building a steady career of small parts in big films (such as Angelina Jolie's lover-rival in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a Mossad agent in Munich) and big parts in small films (Layer Cake's nice-guy coke dealer, Ted Hughes in Sylvia)? Or should he accept and become forever the man who was Bond? He turned to Pierce Brosnan, four-time veteran of Her Majesty's Secret Service, for advice...
...Mighty Heart, an adaptation of Mariane's book about his abduction and beheading in Pakistan in 2002. A producer, one Brad Pitt, told PEOPLE, "We hope the film can increase understanding between people of all faiths." If anything can unite us, it's that hot chick from Tomb Raider...
...Still others aboard the gathered whaleships speculated that that the approaching steamer might be the Confederate raider that had, amid great controversy, stopped in Melbourne the previous winter. Over the past four years of war, the Confederates had dispatched at least twelve such cruisers into the world's oceans, charging them with destroying private, unarmed Union merchant, fishing, and whaling vessels. But the war was over. Weeks ago these sailors, when variously docked in San Francisco, Honolulu and other ports, had read in newspapers that the war between the North and the South had ended nearly three months earlier...