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Vegas Gambling GoesHollywood
By encinoman
I know, I know, they call it &;gaming&; rather than gambling, or more properly, losing. As I noted after 20 years of tradeshow gambling in Las Vegas,
&;Like the ice caps melting, I’ve watched the casino gaming pits where one plays blackjack shrink, with the real estate taken over by an army of slot machines for a generation of Americans who prefer to interact with screens rather than a boisterous table of degenerate gamblers.&;
The slots are bright and attractive now, not just one-armed bandits spinning oranges and black bars. At the gaming expo in Las Vegas, the new &;slots&; (that take only green money, credit cards or casino player&;s club/loser&;s club cards) offer &;high-definition animated characters and 3-D graphics, touch-screen technology and Xbox-type or similar video game features.&;
Just as Hollywood now makes &;films&; stripmining our collective past, from &;Bewitched&; and &;Land of the Lost&; (Will Ferrell has fallen far from &;Anchorman&;) to, G-d help us, Mr. Potatohead, gaming companies will bring images, characters and situations from &;The Lord of the Rings&; and, for the distaff crowd, &;Sex and the City&; to the casual slot player.
A Hollywood/Vegas hook-up promoting gambling directly from couch potatoes can&;t be far away.
Tags: Hollywood, Las Vegas, slot-machines, Will-Ferrell
This entry was posted on November 20, 2009 at 8:34 pm and is filed under Hollywood, Las Vegas, Uncategorized.
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