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...quirky and uncomfortable man fighting a gambling addiction and moving up through the ranks of a mundane insurance agency. When he finally works up the courage to ask his boss (Peter Dinklage) for a raise, he instead offers him a shot at investigating the potential fraud of a stripper named Tasty Delight (Emmanuelle Chriqui...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: St. John of Las Vegas | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...mocked). John's only chance at making more money is to accept a challenge from his boss, played by Peter Dinklage, who is clever and sharp as usual, to go out on the road on a fraud investigating involving an allegedly totaled vintage car. The car belongs to a stripper named Tasty D Lite (Entourage's Emmanuelle Chriqui) who is seeking to recoup wages lost from her inability to work. John is teamed with a veteran investigator named Virgil (Romany Malco, who played Conrad in the early seasons of Weeds). (See the top 10 art accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saint John of Las Vegas: Steve Buscemi in the Inferno | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...closest Rhodes ever comes to capturing the Inferno's dark joys is a scene involving a flame-throwing circus performer with a malfunctioning suit. It's unclear how the flame thrower, who has some information on the stripper's car, relates to Dante's heretics in their flaming tombs, but he's got a broken zipper on his protective suit and a jammed fuel line that causes him to go up in flames every minute or so. And he's desperate for a cigarette. As a sight gag, it works, and the flaming man's relative optimism that such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saint John of Las Vegas: Steve Buscemi in the Inferno | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

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