{"id":2073,"date":"2010-01-28T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2010-01-28T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:11:54","slug":"lights-camera-mesquite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/lights-camera-mesquite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Camera, Mesquite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wuNjPD1z7v8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wuNjPD1z7v8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Call me Captain Video today. After <em>21<\/em>, with <strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong> doing his rent-a-Satan act, anyone would be understandably leery of movies about card-counting &#8230; especially ones directed by someone named <strong>Delaney Dragon<\/strong>. (Would he be any relation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072926\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Eiger Sanction<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s spymaster <strong>Urassis Dragon<\/strong>?) However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1319734\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rough Hustle<\/em><\/a> has a few things in its favor &#8230; although its generic straight-to-video title would not be among them. But the unglamorous, no-name cast supplies a veneer of neo-realism, as does the use of off-Strip and <strong>Mesquite<\/strong> locations. There&#8217;s no shortage of grunge in and around <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> and, judging by the trailer, <em>Rough Hustle<\/em> practically wallows in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me Captain Video today. After 21, with Kevin Spacey doing his rent-a-Satan act, anyone would be understandably leery of movies about card-counting &#8230; especially ones directed by someone named Delaney Dragon. (Would he be any relation to The Eiger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/lights-camera-mesquite\/\">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":[88,28,51,126,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}