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Article: San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Bruce Newman column: Lucky '13'.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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Byline: Bruce Newman
Jun. 6--As the cutthroat casino owner Willy Bank in "Ocean's Thirteen," Al Pacino is all capped teeth and man-tan. Even his hair appears to be tinted tangerine. He's like an orange version of Michael Corleone.
One of the inside jokes that makes "Thirteen" the luckiest number in this heist series is the resemblance of Pacino's bespectacled terror to Moe Greene, the Vegas casino crum-bum he had whacked in "The Godfather." Long before he started glowing like one of the Strip's neon marquees.
If the overstuffed caper comedies "Ocean's Eleven" and "Twelve" lacked for anything, it was an adversary villainous enough to hold his ...