{"id":1172,"date":"2009-11-03T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2009-11-04T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:50:56","slug":"from-the-worst-to-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-worst-to-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"From the worst to the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having already polled <em>LVA<\/em> readers about the worst Vegas-themed movie (<em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/pollres.cfm?showdate=10\/19\/2009\" target=\"_self\">scored a stunning upset<\/a> over <em>Showgirls<\/em>), we&#8217;re now going to ask them to choose the best gambling-themed film. So far, the suggested titles are:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hustler<\/em>, its sequel, <em>The Color of Money<\/em>, <strong>Robert Altman<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>California Split<\/strong>, <strong>James Toback<\/strong>&#8216;s Dostoevsky-inspired <em>The Gambler<\/em>, <em>21<\/em> (<strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong> doing his low-rent Satan thing), <em>Maverick<\/em>, <em>The Sting<\/em>, <em>The Cincinnati Kid<\/em>, <em>Casino<\/em> (<strong>Martin Scorcese<\/strong> strikes again), <em>Kaleidoscope<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060581\" target=\"_blank\">1966<\/a>), <em>A Big Hand for the Little Lady<\/em>, <em>Viva Las Vegas<\/em>, <em>Ocean&#8217;s 11<\/em> (the <strong>Rat Pack<\/strong> one), <em>Rounders<\/em> and <em>Croupier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The latter, directed by <strong>Mike Hodges<\/strong> and starring <strong>Clive Owen<\/strong> in his breakthrough performance, would have my vote &#8230; but what have we forgotten? Suggestions, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already polled LVA readers about the worst Vegas-themed movie (Mars Attacks! scored a stunning upset over Showgirls), we&#8217;re now going to ask them to choose the best gambling-themed film. So far, the suggested titles are: The Hustler, its sequel, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-worst-to-the-best\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}