Posted AT 4:01 AM EDT on 14/01/06
Las Vegas bets on old-school cool
Las Vegas — It's no surprise that Las Vegas is a popular location for moviemakers. With its hotel icons, cartoonish landmarks, sci-fi hedonism and franchised greediness, the world's premier bling and ka-ching metropolis is the ideal setting for gangsters, players, hookers and high rollers.
In the past decade,
The Cooler,
Swingers,
Very Bad Things and Scorsese's epic
Casino have all been set in Vegas.
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