The grandest "Casino Royale" - the ultimate gamble - is, of course, the game of life itself: a series of cosmic wagers in which the stakes vary wildly from day to day, bet to bet.
There's also plenty of room for gluttony (overindulgence, addiction, substance abuse) wrath (rage, vindictiveness) sloth (indifference, jadedness, existential apathy) lust (licentiousness, dissolution) and, the deadliest of all sins: pride (hubris, arrogance, usually expressed in the form of cheating, or a misplaced belief in a dubious "system" designed to beat the odds). Just about all the capital vices can be found in the psyche of the gambler, and not just in the usual suspects, greed and envy. Gambling does not rank among the "seven deadly sins." It doesn't have to. You never know how it's going to turn out, and the results have as much to do with circumstance as they do with talent or craftsmanship.
What accounts for the movies' fascination with gambling? That's a question I mull over in a survey of pictures (from "Gilda" to "Barry Lyndon" to "Casino" to "California Split" to "The Cooler") about the addictive alchemy of luck, chance, fate and skill at MSN Movies. James Bond (Daniel Craig) in "Casino Royale." With every move he makes, another chance he takes. Here's the official website for The Shard. You can read an article about it at the Guardian. The tower was designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian architect best know for creating Paris's Pompidou Centre of modern art with Richard Rogers, and more recently the New York Times Tower. It's been designed with an irregular triangular shape from base to top and will be covered entirely in glass.
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The Shard will stand 1,017 ft high and have 72 floors, plus another 15 radiator floors in the roof. It's already the second highest free-standing structure in the UK after the Emley Moor transmitting station. Ie: not impressed, but that's me and why I'm glad I saw London before they started to totally ruin it.Known as the "London Bridge Tower" before they changed the name, when completed in 2012, it will be the tallest building in Europe and 45th highest in the world. I assume those are pigeons flying over-head and not buzzards. Marie writes: They call it "The Shard" and it's currently rising over London akin to Superman's Fortress of Solitude and dwarfing everything around it, especially St.
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