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...film is stunningly photographed by Ernest Dickerson, and the costume and set design (Wynn Thomas) play strong supporting roles. Mo' Better Blues is, without a doubt, beautiful to look at. The film's music score, written by Bill Lee, the filmmaker's father and a jazz musician himself, is strong, with both the title track and "Harlem Blues," sung by newcomer Williams, deserving special credit...
...stay as long as a week. By contrast, Atlantic City appeals largely to bettors who arrive by bus and leave the same day. "Atlantic City has to try to become a destination resort, which means that it has to be a place where folks want to go," says Steve Wynn, chairman of Golden Nugget, which opened the $617 million, 3,200-room Mirage hotel complex in Las Vegas last November. Adds Wynn: "Las Vegas hasn't exactly been tasteful or elegant, but it is exciting. For 50 years, it's always kept that promise...
Will S.I.'s less tangible legacies survive equally intact? Says Si's son Wynn, 35, a computer programmer in Boston who quit the family business: "The force of my grandfather's personality is imprinted on the entire family. It's a general drive that has come down to succeed and to be a family. The original unity still holds almost completely. But we're only up to the third generation. We have seen many other families that have fractured...
...case, although he and his father are now close, a rocky parent- teenager relationship worsened when Wynn, working as a young photographer for the family-owned Staten Island Advance, was fired by one of his uncles for refusing to cut his long hair. Si did not intervene. Says Wynn: "I don't think my father is that cold. He does have a well-developed poker face. He doesn't always let on what he's thinking...
...Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn, "the old Cardinals locked up in each successive conclave chose as Pope precisely the personality most needed at the moment." Wynn, a correspondent in TIME's Rome bureau from 1962 to 1985, offers a memoir of his Vatican watching during those years that is at once authoritative and anecdotal...