That means dealing with everyone from gambling addicts certain that their next spin will make them rich to eccentric millionaires to tragic old men who bet their pension away a day at a time to opportunistic teens who put their last tenner on the blackjack in the hope of a few free beers.
From gambling addicts certain that their next spin will make them rich, to eccentric millionaires and tragic old men who bet their pension away a day at a time, as well as the opportunistic teens who put their last tenner on the blackjack in the hope of a few free beers.
By 1986, at the age of barely fifty, Saint Laurent had become the tragic Grand Old Man of French couture.
It's an unsettling image, even tragic: the old man bravely fighting death, only to be taken violently, against his will.
Don't be duped by the ostensibly tragic finale: that dead old man was just an impostor.
And if we're not rich baby boomers, we are lonely, tragic, pathetic, neglected figures like the old man on the moon in the John Lewis Christmas advert.
At one moment, Oscar is a dying, wealthy old man making a tragic farewell to his devoted great-niece Léa (Elise Lhomeau), whom he has made rich, but in so doing evidently caused her to attract a man who has broken her heart.
He played roles ranging from the adventure of "Northwest Passage" to the slapstick of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to the tragic hero of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".
Watch "Happy Holidays" below to see Santa Claus as a sad, deluded, and possibly drunk old man who, for some tragic reason, believes he can fly: .
(Dunning) PAPPA TARAHUMARA (Thursday) This performance group makes its New York debut with "Island," a tragic, multidisciplinary adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings".
