Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci, Scorsese's latest gangster morality tale continues a collaboration that began with the brilliant "Raging Bull" 15 years ago. Add to this mix the stunning Sharon Stone, whose acting ability is finally apparent, and stylish Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson and it is clear that any fault of "Casino" is not due to a lack of talent on the set. Rather it is this film's ambitious script which gambles...
Republican legislators were for sale--many received generous campaign contributions from the industry that wanted to maintain its obscene profits from government subsidies. Of course, these charges are simplified, but they are backed up by a mountain of evidence. An article in the November 30 issue of Rolling Stone magazine details this legal but sickening corruption that sucks our tax dollars into corporate coffers...
...call it GoodFellas Go West?) three hours to record. Until it's too late, Sam is entirely too tolerant of his lifelong buddy Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a cheerful psychopath who is more trouble than he's worth. Sam also falls into distracting obsession with Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), and that's not good for him or for business either. She's a hustler whose excessive interest in furs and jewels would warn off a more worldly man. As would the fact that she leaves their wedding banquet to make a tearful call to the sleazy lover (James Woods) whom...
...repetitive, spectacle. But in its last hour, as it concentrates more and more on Ginger's increasingly desperate and degrading attempts to escape Sam's smothering affections, the film winds neurotically in on itself. And neither the controlled rage of De Niro's playing nor the entrapped ferocity of Stone's, as she breaks definitively with her sex-symbol past, can prevent the film--and its audience--from sinking into a been-here, seen-that mood...
...little respite in Leverich's biography. He is a great one for minutiae--bills, appointments, schedules--as if by the sheer amassing of mundane detail he could arrest his notoriously flighty subject. The book is a solid job, but at times a weighty one--as dense as a memorial stone...