DOCSLIB.ORG

Hail, Caesars!

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Hail, Caesars! Hail, Caesars! SSA’s host hotel is home to some of the greatest moments in movies, television and sports. By Tom Comi If employees at the registration desk at Caesars Palace when they were filming that 2009 film, but those moments in Las Vegas were given a $100 chip every time a guest are actually pretty common at Caesars—which has hosted quoted a line from the blockbuster movie The Hangover, countless movies, TV shows and sporting events in its the odds are pretty good they’d be rich enough to retire. illustrious 46-year history. There’s something surreal about standing in the exact same So even if you are a first-time visitor who is checking into spot as Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifanakis and Ed Helms Caesars in September for the Self Storage Association’s Fall Conference & Trade Show, chances are likely that you will Mike Metzger jumped the fountain in 2006 as part of the Caesars Palace anniversary. See Caesars, page 16 PAGE 14 SSA GLOBE SEPTEMBER 2012 1-800-456-9955 1620 Kipling Street, Lakewood, CO 80215 USA www.sentinelsystems.com Sentinel-ISS042-FP4C.indd 1 1/31/12 10:44 AM Caesars, from page 14 Getting It Done experience a case of déjà vu like you have seen the registra- Shooting TV shows, movies and live events on location tion area, casino, fountains, pool area or The Colosseum® is never easy, but imagine the obstacles in doing so at a many times before. venue that never closes. A perfect example is the afore- mentioned registration scene in The Hangover, which had “We have been very fortunate that prestigious filmmakers to be filmed while guests were still checking in several feet and innovative television producers have made some away. Munch said it couldn’t be done without the best of film and television’s most memorable productions at people in the business. Caesars Palace,” said Debbie Munch, vice president of public relations for Caesars Entertainment’s Las Vegas “Our secret is the team of people who work for us,” she hotels. said. “Production support is a lot like creating a spec- tacular on-site event. Many fine hotels can rightly claim expertise in event management, but movies often test the That Looks Familiar! very best in the business. That expertise has grown over the Movie fans roaming the grounds “We have been very fortunate years, bringing a huge benefit at Caesars will recall scenes to our guests, who have varied from Rain Man (Tom Cruise, that prestigious filmmakers service needs.” Dustin Hoffman), Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), The Elec- and innovative television Munch cites some interesting tric Horseman (Robert Redford), producers have made some examples that attendees might Intolerable Cruelty (George appreciate while attending the Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones), of film and television’s most SSA’s convention: The Only Game in Town (Eliza- • The same employees who set beth Taylor, Warren Beatty), The memorable productions at up pool parties for the catering Gambler (James Caan), Dream- Caesars Palace.” clients are those who organized girls (Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé a poolside restaurant scene Knowles), Fools Rush In (Salma Debbie Munch, Caesars Palace for The Hangover and helped Hayek) and Oh God! You Devil re-construct a penthouse terrace (George Burns). to shoot a season-ending finale of Avid TV watchers will recall Caesars depicted in scenes the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. from hit shows like Entourage, The Sopranos, Will & Grace • The lead electrician who organizes the electrical and Friends. The hotel has also hosted the Jerry Lewis installations for meeting room booths and exhibits MDA Labor Day Telethon, Circus of the Stars, the TBS is the same man who pulled all the power to shoot program Earth to America and many other specials. the Oscar-winning Best Picture Rain Man. Perhaps most impressive, though, are the many sporting • Some of the stagehands that support Celine Dion’s events that have taken place at the venue over the past and Elton John’s shows in The Colosseum® were on four-plus decades, including 150 major championship duty when Robert Redford rode a horse through the boxing matches—featuring Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Circus Maximus Showroom in The Electric Horseman. Leonard, Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Oscar De La Hoya—and more than a dozen international tennis • The convention services team that sets up chairs and competitions that showcased the talents of everybody tables for banquets provided the speaker’s podium from Arthur Ashe to Pete Sampras. and convention props featured in Iron Man. You can’t mention Caesars and the fountains without “When people travel for business or pleasure, they espe- immediately thinking of motorcycle jumps, and it all began cially enjoy being in a picturesque setting,” says Munch. in 1967 when daredevil Evel Knievel broke 40 bones in his “We hope that Caesars Palace and its impressive staff body and ended up in a coma for 30 days after a horrific bring to life some of the movie magic that Steven Spiel- crash. Stuntman Gary Wells attempted the jump in 1980, berg immortalized in Dreamgirls and Mark Wahlberg did but a botched landing led to a broken pelvis, two broken with The Fighter.” legs and a ripped aorta. Oh, and just to clear up any confusion about the question It wasn’t until 1989 that the fountain was finally conquered, posed to the reception employee by Zach Galifanakis’s and it was fittingly accomplished by Evel’s son, Robbie. character in The Hangover, the real Caesar never did live In 2006, as part of Caesars Palace’s 40th anniversary, X at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. v Games champion Mike Metzger performed a motorcycle back flip over the front fountains for an ESPN program titled The Impossible Jump. PAGE 16 SSA GLOBE SEPTEMBER 2012 .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Film Essay for "Mccabe & Mrs. Miller"
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller By Chelsea Wessels In a 1971 interview, Robert Altman describes the story of “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” as “the most ordinary common western that’s ever been told. It’s eve- ry event, every character, every west- ern you’ve ever seen.”1 And yet, the resulting film is no ordinary western: from its Pacific Northwest setting to characters like “Pudgy” McCabe (played by Warren Beatty), the gun- fighter and gambler turned business- man who isn’t particularly skilled at any of his occupations. In “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” Altman’s impressionistic style revises western events and char- acters in such a way that the film re- flects on history, industry, and genre from an entirely new perspective. Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) and saloon owner McCabe (Warren Beatty) swap ideas for striking it rich. Courtesy Library of Congress Collection. The opening of the film sets the tone for this revision: Leonard Cohen sings mournfully as the when a mining company offers to buy him out and camera tracks across a wooded landscape to a lone Mrs. Miller is ultimately a captive to his choices, una- rider, hunched against the misty rain. As the unidenti- ble (and perhaps unwilling) to save McCabe from his fied rider arrives at the settlement of Presbyterian own insecurities and herself from her opium addic- Church (not much more than a few shacks and an tion. The nuances of these characters, and the per- unfinished church), the trees practically suffocate the formances by Beatty and Julie Christie, build greater frame and close off the landscape.
    [Show full text]
  • Becoming Legendary: Slate Financing and Hollywood Studio Partnership in Contemporary Filmmaking
    Kimberly Owczarski Becoming Legendary: Slate Financing and Hollywood Studio Partnership in Contemporary Filmmaking In June 2005, Warner Bros. Pictures announced Are Marshall (2006), and Trick ‘r’ Treat (2006)2— a multi-film co-financing and co-production not a single one grossed more than $75 million agreement with Legendary Pictures, a new total worldwide at the box office. In 2007, though, company backed by $500 million in private 300 was a surprise hit at the box office and secured equity funding from corporate investors including Legendary’s footing in Hollywood (see Table 1 divisions of Bank of America and AIG.1 Slate for a breakdown of Legendary’s performance at financing, which involves an investment in a the box office). Since then, Legendary has been a specified number of studio films ranging from a partner on several high-profile Warner Bros. films mere handful to dozens of pictures, was hardly a including The Dark Knight, Inception, Watchmen, new phenomenon in Hollywood as several studios Clash of the Titans, and The Hangoverand its sequel. had these types of deals in place by 2005. But In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the sheer size of the Legendary deal—twenty five Legendary founder Thomas Tull likened his films—was certainly ambitious for a nascent firm. company’s involvement in film production to The first film released as part of this deal wasBatman an entrepreneurial endeavor, stating: “We treat Begins (2005), a rebooting of Warner Bros.’ film each film like a start-up.”3 Tull’s equation of franchise. Although Batman Begins had a strong filmmaking with Wall Street investment is performance at the box office ($205 million in particularly apt, as each film poses the potential domestic theaters and $167 million in international for a great windfall or loss just as investing in a theaters), it was not until two years later that the new business enterprise does for stockholders.
    [Show full text]
  • It's a Conspiracy
    IT’S A CONSPIRACY! As a Cautionary Remembrance of the JFK Assassination—A Survey of Films With A Paranoid Edge Dan Akira Nishimura with Don Malcolm The only culture to enlist the imagination and change the charac- der. As it snows, he walks the streets of the town that will be forever ter of Americans was the one we had been given by the movies… changed. The banker Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), a scrooge-like No movie star had the mind, courage or force to be national character, practically owns Bedford Falls. As he prepares to reshape leader… So the President nominated himself. He would fill the it in his own image, Potter doesn’t act alone. There’s also a board void. He would be the movie star come to life as President. of directors with identities shielded from the public (think MPAA). Who are these people? And what’s so wonderful about them? —Norman Mailer 3. Ace in the Hole (1951) resident John F. Kennedy was a movie fan. Ironically, one A former big city reporter of his favorites was The Manchurian Candidate (1962), lands a job for an Albu- directed by John Frankenheimer. With the president’s per- querque daily. Chuck Tatum mission, Frankenheimer was able to shoot scenes from (Kirk Douglas) is looking for Seven Days in May (1964) at the White House. Due to a ticket back to “the Apple.” Pthe events of November 1963, both films seem prescient. He thinks he’s found it when Was Lee Harvey Oswald a sleeper agent, a “Manchurian candidate?” Leo Mimosa (Richard Bene- Or was it a military coup as in the latter film? Or both? dict) is trapped in a cave Over the years, many films have dealt with political conspira- collapse.
    [Show full text]
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Pdf, Epub, Ebook
    EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: HOW THE SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL GENERATION SAVED HOLLYWOOD PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Peter Biskind | 512 pages | 26 Apr 1999 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9780684857084 | English | New York, United States Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood PDF Book My impression of this documentary wasn't so great due to the fact of already seeing and knowing a similar themed work a few years ago called "A Decade Under the Influence" , directed by Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese, which was a better project for numerous reasons. Why do people go see them? The book is hefty with gossip of all kinds, which is too bad because he's talking about the revolution in films in the 60's to early 80's. It is chock full of interviews and choice information about the time period 60's's in American cinema that changed everything, for a lot better and some for not. Beatty likes to fuck alot. Biskind's book disappointed me tremendously. Return to the Books Home Page. Assassinations, cultural domination, drugging, spying, provocation: Talk about taking the fight to your opponents—the American people—and crippling them for generations! But in the kind of popularized pseudohistory ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'' exemplifies, anecdotes are valued above all else, bitchy gossip is privileged, dysfunction is automatically more fascinating than artistic success, aggrieved former friends and former lovers are granted the license to settle scores sometimes anonymously , documentation is disdained and historical analysis must be squeezed into the narrative quickly, so as not to disrupt the dishing.
    [Show full text]
  • Together Again Laughs Burns Rewrote the Act and for the BETSY WICKARD Next Forty Years Was Gracie Allen’S Straight Man
    George Burns and Gracie Allen For Information Contact: Together Again laughs Burns rewrote the act and for the BETSY WICKARD next forty years was Gracie Allen’s straight man. Actress BETSY WICKARD Burns wrote “Lamb Chops”, the act that has performed in theaters propelled them to top billing in the and casinos throughout the vaudeville circuit with Gracie acting as the country. She was a silly, lightheaded foil. Burns and Allen made dancer/singer in The a string of one-reel comedies and then Branson Follies, The Palm Springs Follies, appeared the films “The Big Broadcast” and The Great American Follies, and Golden “A Damsel in Distress” with Fred Astaire. At Girls USA. She appeared in the feature films the same time the Burns and Allen radio Rocky V and Mannequin on the Move. She show became one of the most popular has appeared in numerous national programs of the time. On television, The commercials and print ads for major George Burns and Gracie Allen Show put corporations. She is now living in Florida faces to the radio characters audiences had and performing on the Condo Circuit. She is come to love. After Gracie Allen retired delighted to be portraying Gracie Allen in George Burns remained in show business. “Together Again.” At the age of 78 he won the Academy Award in “The Sunshine Boys” movie and PETER SALZER gained greater stardom as God in the “Oh George Burns and Gracie Allen God” series. George Burns entertained Actor/Writer PETER audiences to the ripe old age of 100 years. Together Again SALZER has created roles When Peter Salzer walks on stage in on stage and on screen “Together Again” audiences see George George Burns and Gracie Allen and has appeared in many television Burns come back to life.
    [Show full text]
  • CLE On-Demand
    Garden State CLE 2000 Hamilton Ave. Hamilton, N.J. 08619 (609) 584-1924 (609) 895-1899 Fax www.gardenstatecle.Com [email protected] CLE On-Demand View and record the “Secret Words” Print this form and write down all the “secret Words” during the program: (Reporting the words is a required step in getting CLE Credit) Word #1 was: Word #2 was: Word #3 was: Word #4 was: Garden State CLE presents: A Pop Corn CLE: "An Offer You Can't Refuse" Winning Negotiating Techniques as Portrayed in Cinema Lesson Plan Part I - Negotiation as a Process Two Critical Process Issues: 1.) Get your adversary to invest time and effort in the process. The more time, energy & resources invested, the harder it will be for him to walk away. 2.) Build a foundation of consensus by agreeing to as many (usually smaller, insignificant) things as possible early on in the process and leave the highly disputed matters until the end. -------------------------------------------------- The following film is not about war. It is about the process of negotiation. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) William Holden Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Sessue Hayakawa Negotiating Issues: Recognition of negotiation as a process; Note mistake of revealing key data early in the process; Zero-sum game; Note the use of all negotiator styles: analytical, practical, amiable, extrovert; The power of time/deadlines – investing and effort time; Late counter offer meets the needs of both parties; Note how emotion & pride clouds judgment & delays resolution. Part II - BATNA The person with the best alternative to a negotiated settlement (BATNA) has the most leverage.
    [Show full text]
  • Ammast 03 Lettrhd Press 3 Holed
    offset usage 4-color process Output is set for 2500dpi 450 West 33rd Street New York NY 10001-2605 thirteen.org press information AMERICAN MASTERS BRINGS BIG SCREEN MAGIC TO THE SMALL SCREEN WITH YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: THE WARNER BROS. STORY Series from Thirteen/WNET Premieres This Fall on PBS AMERICAN MASTERS is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET The colorful 85-year legacy of Warner Bros. is documented in an unprecedented film project, New York AMERICAN MASTERS You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, narrated by Clint Eastwood. The five-hour film, a Lorac production in partnership with AMERICAN MASTERS and Warner Bros. Entertainment, premieres nationally, September 23, 24 and 25 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). The film is directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker and film critic Richard Schickel. Eastwood is executive producer. “I think it’s wonderful and fitting that Richard Schickel, who produced his first big series The Men Who Made the Movies for public television in 1973, is returning to public television with this project – the epic and historic and thoroughly juicy Warner Bros. story,” says Susan Lacy, creator and Executive Producer of AMERICAN MASTERS, a five-time winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series. Through movie clips, rare archival interviews, newly photographed material, and insightful on-camera discussions with talent such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Warren Beatty, Sidney Lumet, Jack Nicholson, and many others, You Must Remember This gives us the history of 20th century America on the big screen.
    [Show full text]
  • Death No More Bryan Dunagun April 26, 2020 Well, If
    Death No More Bryan Dunagun April 26, 2020 Well, if you have a Bible, would you open up to Revelation 21? This is the last book in the Bible, the second to last chapter in the Bible. I want to start off by reading this Scripture together. This is written by a guy named John, one of Jesus' disciples, who's now living in exile as a prisoner of Rome. John has given this vision of the future that we have in Jesus. We'll start in verse 1. "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, God's dwelling place is now among the people. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain for the old order of things has passed away." Verse 5. "He who was seated on the throne said, “Behold I am making all things new.”, and then he said, “Write this down for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
    [Show full text]
  • 24)0 M « » R C T » 2 "7 T L I Johnny Jones" (1989
    derer of his parents. per. A former country singer, his life pines following the Spanish- ® **% ‘Rafferty and the Gold and career ruined by alcoholism, American War. Dust Twins” (1975. Comedy) Alan falls in love with a Texas motel 114)0 Arkin, Sally Kelierman. Two young owner and decides to make a female drifters kidnap a depressed comeback. a ★ "It's Alive!" (1968, Science driving instructor and launcn a zany Fiction) Tommy Kirk, Shirley crime spree. EVENING Bonne. A lunatic's plot to trap three tors seem to vanish when they strangers in an Ozark cave with a threaten the privacy of a teen-age prehistoric m onster backfires when girt who lives with her unseen 74)0 the creature sets its sights on him. Father in a mysterious house. FRIDAY, a ** V i "The Adventures of 124)0 M « » r c T » 2 "7 t l i Johnny Jones" (1989. Drama) Ri­ 9:30 chard Love, Ida Gregory. In 1943 [41 QD ★★ "La Parfaite Forme” ® **W "Johnnie Mae Gibson: Wales, an imaginative boy’s work! (1985, Cornedie) John Travolta, Ja­ FBI" (1986, Drama) Lynn Whitfield. M O R N IN G Is changed by tne arrival of children mie Lee Curtis. Un journalists de Howard E. Rollins Jr. Fact-based evacuated from Liverpool and the I'hebdomadaire “Rolling Stone" story of a Southern woman who ov­ 84)0 introduction of American bobble prepare un reportage a sensation ercame a poverty-stricken child­ sur les centres de conditionnement (8 * * “Crooks in Cloisters" (1963. gum. hood and the strains of balancing a 7:30 physique, bars de rencontres nou­ marriage and a career to achieve Comedy) Ronald Fraser.
    [Show full text]
  • 2015-16 PG Exam Paper
    Birkbeck (University of London) MSc EXAMINATION Department of Computer Science and Information Systems Cloud Computing (BUCI029H7) —————————————————— CREDIT VALUE: 15 credits Date of examination: Thursday, 2nd June 2016 Duration of paper: 10:00am – 12:00pm (2 hours) RUBRIC 1. This paper contains 5 questions for a total of 100 marks. 2. Students should attempt to answer all of them. 3. This paper is not prior-disclosed. 4. The use of non-programmable electronic calculators is permitted. BUCI029H7 Page 1 of 3 c Birkbeck College 2016 1. (20 marks) Give brief answers to the following questions. (a) What are the Lamport timestamps of the events a, b, c, d and e respectively in the following space-time diagram? (5 marks) (b) What is a deadlock? What are the Coffman conditions for a deadlock to occur? (5 marks) (c) Which three properties cannot be provided by a distributed system simultaneously, according to the CAP theorem? Which one of them do NoSQL databases usually compromise in favour of the other two? (5 marks) (d) In RESTful APIs, what HTTP methods should be nullipotent and what HTTP meth- ods should be idempotent? Which HTTP method should be used to replace a specific item in the collection? (5 marks) 2. (20 marks) Give brief answers to the following questions. (a) What are the pros and cons of the “in-mapper combining” design pattern compared with the combiner? (5 marks) (b) What kind of reducer functions can be used directly as combiner functions? Provide three examples of such functions. Is it usually better to set the number of map tasks larger than the number of computer nodes in the cluster? Why? (5 marks) (c) What are the three possible ways to perform a natural join of two relational tables using MapReduce? Which one of them has the fastest speed? Which one of them has the least restriction? (5 marks) (d) What does RDD stand for in Spark? What does the lineage of an RDD mean? Why does an RDD need to remember its lineage all the time? (5 marks) BUCI029H7 Page 2 of 3 c Birkbeck College 2016 3.
    [Show full text]
  • The Violating Maxims of Main Characters in the Hangover Movie’S Script
    THE VIOLATING MAXIMS OF MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE HANGOVER MOVIE’S SCRIPT *Nanda Chairunnisa **Muhammad Natsir ABSTRACT The study deals with the types of maxims violation in The Hangover movie’s script used by the main characters. The objectives of study were to describe the violation of maxim, to describe the dominant type of maxim violation and to elaborate the reason for the maxim violation. The data were the dialogue of main characters in The Hangover movie. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative and limited on the main characters. The data analysis findingsshowthat there are 22 violation of maxim of quality, 2 violation of maxim of quantity, 9 violation of maxim of relation, and 8 violation of maxim of manner.The reason of the violations areto give the lack of evidence, to lying to other speaker in hiding the truth, to save face the embarrassment, to present the strongest information, to represent what is in the speaker’s mind, or to trick audience or listener for making a joke or not. Keyword : cooperative principle, violation of maxim, movie. *Graduate Status **Lecturer Status 156 INTRODUCTION In conversation it is sometimes found that the conversation uttered are notcomplete and clearly, thusit is difficult for listener to get the meaning of our utterances in order to get an effective communication, the speaker should give the complete and clear sentence to the listener(s). So, that the listener(s) can get the meaning of our utterances and understand the exact information that the speaker intends to say. The cooperative principle is the principles of communication to control the speaker and the listeners are add to conduct a good conversation when they perform a talk exchange.
    [Show full text]
  • September 17, 2012
    volume 12 - issue 3 - tuesday, september 18, 2012 - uvm, burlington, vt uvm.edu/~watertwr - thewatertower.tumblr.com by rebeccalaurion Let me start out by saying that if you didn’t attend the Seth Meyers comedy show on September 6th, you really missed out. I’ll be the first to admit that the most recent seasons of Saturday Night Live (of which Meyers is the Head Writer, for those of you unaware) haven’t been the show’s best. So I was worried that the evening would be filled with the same lackluster material I’ve come to expect from Meyers, week af- ter week. I was actually concerned that the highlight of the evening would be when ev- eryone decided to simultaneously belt out by bendonovan “Somebody that I Used to Know” when it played over the loudspeakers. In the interest of full disclosure, I should So you can imagine my surprise when start by saying that I have been a lifelong Meyers stepped onto the stage, and pro- Democrat—I’ve worked on campaigns, I’ve ceeded to actually make me laugh. And interned for Democratic politicians, and not just in a chuckle-quietly-at-a-pass- I’ve voted Democrat in every election I’ve ing-humorous-remark style, but actually been eligible to participate in. laughing, leaning-forward-in-your-seat- But at the Democratic National Con- because-you-can’t-sit-upright laughing. vention in Charlotte, North Carolina two The question must be asked, however, weeks ago, and in over the subsequent week of why Meyers was more entertaining live of campaigning, the Democrats pulled off a in person than live on television.
    [Show full text]