{"id":4557,"date":"2010-09-09T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2010-09-09T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:44:13","slug":"book-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/book-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Book ’em"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief digression, if you’ll allow …<\/p>\n

Guest blogger Jeff_in_OKC<\/strong> and I conduct occasional off-list discussions of the beloved Sixties TV show that featured the most tight-assed cops on the planet, Hawaii\u00a0 Five-0<\/em>. Steve McGarrett<\/strong> was probably my formative influence on what a casino regulator should be (“I’ll tell you what’s next: Prison for you punks!”). Re-viewing the original episodes, there’s a (unintended) Mad Men<\/em>-like fascination that comes from watching the establishment try to cope with phenomena — the Vietnam War, drugs, relaxed morals — it doesn’t really grasp. Imagine Donald Draper<\/strong> and Pete Campbell<\/strong> attempting to police paradise. It’s an ironic vibe that CBS-TV<\/strong>‘s reboot isn’t even trying to replicate. But hey, it’s got Grace Park<\/strong>, so no complaints here. (Could she emulate precursor Zulu<\/strong> and constantly address her boss as “Stebe”?)
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The big question, of course, has justice been done to the most famous TV title theme ever? It’s been shrunk to 31 seconds but there’s at least been a conscientious attempt to emulate Reza S. Badiyi<\/strong>‘s pre-MTV<\/strong> visuals, which provided Beat poetry to offset the series’ button-down prose. Does it work for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief digression, if you’ll allow … Guest blogger Jeff_in_OKC and I conduct occasional off-list discussions of the beloved Sixties TV show that featured the most tight-assed cops on the planet, Hawaii\u00a0 Five-0. Steve McGarrett was probably my formative influence … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557"}],"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=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}