The Big Combo (1955) by Joseph H. Lewis

The Big Combo (1955) is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stylistically photographed by cinematographer and noir icon John Alton with music by David Raksin.

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace

Las Vegas: James Ellroy, "The Prowler", slots

Wayne Tedrow Jr. (Las Vegas, 6/14/68)
Wayne returned to Vegas. Pete B. moved to Vegas for a Carlos Marcello gig. It was January ‘64. Pete heard that Wendell Durfee had fled back to Vegas. He told Wayne. Wayne went after Wendell. Three colored dope fiends got in the way. Pete was hopped up on the Cuban exile cause. Vietnam was getting hot. Howard Hughes was nurturing crazy plans to buy up Las Vegas.

He’d rigged a lab in his hotel suite. Beakers, vats and Bunsen burners filled up wall shelves. A three-burner hot plate juked small-batch conversions. He hadn’t cooked dope since Saigon. He was a sergeant on Vegas PD. He was married. He had a chemistry degree. His father was a big Mormon fat cat. Wendell Durfee shivved a casino dealer. It didn’t matter. The Casino Operators’ Council wanted Wendell clipped. Vegas cops got those jobs. They were choice gigs with big bonus money. They were tests. -BLOOD’S A ROVER by James Ellroy

"Every time I hit Las Vegas take a good look at it just to make sure it's still there" -"The Prowler" (1951) directed by Joseph Losey

Officer Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) returns to Susan Gilvray's (Evelyn Keyes) residence initiating a romantic relationship game. With no prowler in sight, a looming Californian hacienda in front of him and a beautiful woman alone inside, Garwood decides to take on the titular role without even changing out of his uniform.

He and Susan reunite and Webb pledges both innocence and love. The couple gets married. Webb quits the police department and fulfills his dream: buying a truck stop motel next to a busy freeway in Las Vegas, Nevada! Garwood believes that his ship has finally come in. A closer view reveals that Webb's ambition isn't a gold bargain.

More than any other city, Las Vegas has long had the reputation of being the place to go for reinvention. From its humble land auction beginnings in 1905, people came to Las Vegas starting their lives over. Long before the gambling, neon and showgirls appeared, Las Vegas was a small town like thousands of others across the country. Slot and video poker machines provide the bulk of main revenues in Las Vegas, along with traditional casino games such as poker, blackjack, craps, baccarat, roulette, etc. It's a good advice to ask your dealer for help and strategies, and it's also polite to give your dealer a 'toke' (tip) particularly if you're winning, placing a chip on the layout (the area where you place your bet) for the dealer to collect if your bet at craps wins.

Slot-machine and video poker players earn comps by joining a casino player's club. Many casinos, armed with profitability studies developed by MBAs, were replacing their card tables with high limit slot machines. Unlike other traditional table games such as blackjack or poker, slots don't require any gambling knowledge, there is not an official slots guide to teach you how to play, and anyone can get in the slots game with a very small bet. No skills required to play the slot machine, no slots tips or winning strategies.

How the Slots Game works online:
Today's slots game are programmed by computer to continually select a set of numbers at random, most of the slots games are programmed using C language or Java, and more and more providers are moving to online browser based version which allows you to play the game without download or install game software on your desktop, just using your Flash plug-in installed in your browser to display the flash slots.

Like the traditional Slot Machine, Online Slots is a random game, regardless what programming language used to build the online slots games, a random-number generator is placed in the slots software. When the player click the "Spin" button or pull the handle, the computer spins the reels, and finally stops at the various symbols correspond to the number series generated by the random number generator.

Humphrey Bogart & Claire Trevor video (Dead End, Dr. Clitterhouse and Key Largo)

Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart in "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" (1938)


A video featuring scenes starred by Humphrey Bogart & Claire Trevor in the films "Dead End" (1937) directed by William Wyler, "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" (1938) directed by Anatole Litvak and "Key Largo" (1948) directed by John Huston

Jake Gyllenhaal Talks "End of Watch"

Jake Gyllenhaal on the Set of 'End of Watch' in Los Angeles on 2nd August 2011


The actor opens up about the intense training he's undergone to transform into his gritty new role as a cop. Listen in.

Exclusive Behind The Scenes: Taylor Lautner In ‘Abduction’

Go behind the scenes of “Abduction” as Taylor Lautner films his intense stunts for this thriller about a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. Source: www.accesshollywood.com

Alice Waters and Jake Gyllenhaal On 'Today' Show For Edible Schoolyard

Jake Gyllenhaal at the Today Show on August 23, 2011


"I grew up around gardens, growing my own food, and that was a real source of community growing up," said Gyllenhaal to Bush Hager. "More than anything, I really got to know my mother and father and my sister, and they got to know me at the dinner table."

In the segment, students worked in the garden with Gyllenhaal, before hauling the harvest into the kitchen to cook with Waters. Bush Hager asked Waters about the changes she's noticed in the students over the course of the program: "They really feel kind of empowered," she explained. "When kids grow it and cook it, they all want to eat it."

Maggie Gyllenhaal asks 'Why is sex fun?' for Discovery channel

CURIOSITY continues with WHY IS SEX FUN? Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 8PM e/p on Discovery. http://curiosity.discovery.com/#mkcpgn=ytdsc1 | In this Curiosity video we follow Maggie Gyllenhaal in exploring how female brain activity changes as a woman reaches orgasm.

The Gyllenhaal siblings sure like their Discovery Channel!

First Jake Gyllenhaal joins Bear Grylls for "Man vs. Wild" and now Maggie Gyllenhaal hosts the third episode of the first season of "Curiosity."
In her episode, which aired Sunday, Aug. 21, Gyllenhaal hosted a revealing investigation into the latest scientific research on orgasms and sexual pleasure. The press release says, "Sexual pleasure is among the most prized, meaningful and richest experiences known to man. But the orgasm is a true scientific puzzle."

Maggie sits with Selma Blair, Claire Danes and Parker Posey

There's a clip above of Maggie's episode and if you missed its first broadcast, it re-airs on Discovery Sunday, Aug. 28 at 11 a.m. ET, Monday, Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. ET and 11 p.m. ET and Wednesday, Aug. 31 at 3 a.m. ET Source: blog.zaq2it.com