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...Ocean's Eleven (1960). The Rat Pack. Rat Pack movies are tough. Frank, Dean, Sammy, Lawford and Bishop: you try so hard to love them as much as they loved themselves. Ocean's Eleven is the prototype, and probably the best of them. Good plot (army buddies knock over five Vegas casinos), and Cesar Romero is great icing as kingpin Duke Santos. But it's stiffly paced and self-indulgent. Go ahead and see it anyway...
This explosion of numbers has, of course, dramatically increased the cachet of living number-free; one of the luxuries of having a house in the English countryside is that, omitting the postal code, you can have an address made up entirely of words (viz. "Mr. Toad, Toad Hall, nr. Rat's Hole, Grahame's Head, Oxfordshire, England"). Yet somehow the figures always catch up with you in the end: villages in the Cotswolds have local phone codes five digits long--as long, in fact, as the numbers themselves. And it must be confessed that one of the only "analog" addresses...
...doesn't like having to fight over issues of what color things are. He was driven nuts by the process, and it took time." Time and, by Meier's count, some 300 round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles--plus living off and on in a "dark, rat-infested, Raymond Chandlery house on the Getty site." During those 14 years "my children grew up, my hair turned whiter, and many friends lost touch with me. In Los Angeles I was forced to develop an entirely new approach in my work. I was picked for the Getty...
...rest of the film they are identified by their eccentric clothing (Ray's plaid shirt and butterfly bow tie) or coiffure (Dave's gravity-defying orange comb-over). And they are defined by their jobs; we think of them simply as "the lion tamer" or "the mole-rat guy," and watch their eyes spark as they speak of the work that lights their lives...
...self-described "Grille Rat" who attends class when it doesn't interfere with catalog-shopping, mall-hopping and hangover-stopping...