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Victor Drai seems to have the appetite to take over the world. A man obsessed with creating theatrical spaces and a successful film producer (Weekend at Bernie’s, The Man with One Red Shoe), Drai has been behind trendy hotspots like Drai’s After Hours in Las Vegas, and Rare on Sunset but his latest offering, Drai's Beachclub + Nightclub at The Cromwell, Las Vegas’ newest boutique property (with rooms from $179 a night), outperforms them all. Positioned atop The Cromwell on the 11th floor, Drai’s reigns over what is arguably the busiest intersection in Vegas. During the daytime it’s a beach pool

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In a city where evolution is part of the revolution, nightlife impresario and hospitality visionary Victor Drai has built a reputation in Las Vegas by staying one-step ahead of the ordinary: creating new multi-sensory experiences that take entertainment, nightlife and dining to new heights. Having made a name for himself by reimagining Las Vegas nightlife, Drai is set to transform the day life and nightlife scene with his new rooftop pool venue. Set to open Memorial Day Weekend 2014, Drai's Beach Club • Nightclub is perched 11 stories above Las Vegas Blvd. on the rooftop of the new 188 room and suite resort, The Cromwell (the first stand-alone boutique hotel on the Strip). With Drai's Beach Club • Nightclub, Drai will create a striking new venue that is unique and groundbreaking; a...

Steve Wynn's night-life operations were rocked last week after two of his top lieutenants, Victor Drai and Cy Waits, left his Las Vegas resort company. Wynn's split from Drai may have been expensive, but both men say it wasn't ugly. Wynn bought Drai out of his management role running Vegas clubs Tryst and Xs for about $20 million, sources estimate. The divorce came after what Vegas insiders described as "friction" between the two. They pointed to Wynn hiring Sean Christie, instead of Drai,...

We so called it! Paris Hilton split with Doug Reinhardt - we know, devastating - to proclaim she didn’t want to date anyone for a while. We said bullshiz, albeit more politely. And we were right, because the official Paris rebound rubber band has twanged gloriously again! And her new dude has a (self-made) lifestyle we’re guessing the heiress is more than familiar with. Entre, boyfriend du jour Cy Waits who’s a mega Las Vas nightclub heavyweight. Alongside his brother Jesse and friend Victor Drai he owns celebrity promised lands Xs, Tryst and Drai’s. Apparently, the two have been dating for a roughly a month. Aww, we feel kinda bad for Reinhardt. He keeps getting dumped and all he gets left with is… burritos. And a lot of money. [Photo: Getty Images]...

Paris Hilton has a new man in her life, and this time it's not a "hungry tiger." Paris has been secretly dating nightclub mogul Cy Waits, who co-owns Las Vegas hotspots Xs, Tryst and Drai's in Hollywood with his twin brother Jesse Waits, who is dating Brody’s ex Jayde Nicole, and Victor Drai. Paris and Cy have been dating for weeks now, but unlike her last few romances, she's trying to keep this one undercover. “She’s pretending she’s single because of her new show,” a source close to both their camps confirmed to...

Paris Hilton has officially rebounded from her days with chimichanga heir Doug Reinhardt -- and unlike D.R., her new guy is completely self-made. TMZ has learned Paris' new dude is Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy Waits -- who, along with his brother Jesse and Victor Drai, owns celebrity hot spots Xs, Tryst and Drai's. We're told the two have been dating for roughly a month. Read more...

New York's nightlife impresarios have taken their acts on the road and now dominate the industry nationwide. In a new column on ClubPlanet.com, Alan Philips crunches the bottle-service receipts and estimates that Jeffrey Chodorow'sChina Grill Management company, which operates the Gansevoort Roof Deck and new club Provocateur in the Meatpacking District -- plus dozens of restaurants and lounges in hotels and casinos around the country -- is the most successful nightlife outfit in the game, with $200 million in revenue in 2009. In second place with an estimated $125 million was Andrew Sasson's Light Group. "It's truly incredible to see how well...

This severe case of divided personality seems to result from the fact that star Tom Selleck must be a credible threat to kill his parents by the end of the film; so for an hour we have to see what a basically nice, charming guy he's playing. The result, in any event, is a weak comedy with bleak boxoffice prospects.

Selleck plays Jon Aldrich, a Chicago stockbroker who flies off to Florida when he gets an emergency call that his mother is in the hospital. Mom (Anne Jackson, in the film's class performance), turns out to be OK, but dad Harry Aldrich (Don Ameche) turns out to be in the throes of what the film keeps calling senile dementia. Harry is living in a time warp where it's always 1943 and every meeting with his son is a joyful reunion.

After Harry Burns down his retirement-village home, Jon takes him to his Chicago condo where wife Audrey (Wendy Crewson) makes the best of things until Jon's income and savings vanish as a result of an FBI investigation (undercover agent played by Michael Murphy). Soon dad's wandering around in a daze, Audrey has taken the kids and scrammed, and shrewish sister Arlene (Christine Ebersole) has moved in with her bratty kids and commenced an affair with the apartment house's doorman (Robert Pastorelli). Mom and dad, pained by all the trouble they're causing, convince Jon, with Arlene's enthusiastic cooperation, that the best thing for Jon to do is kill them and thus relieve everybody of their burden.

Once the film gets to the murder attempts, with their effective slapstick gags (Jon unfailingly hurts himself more than he does his parents) and satiric bite, the film is at least entertaining. However, until then we're reassured over and over that Jon is a great guy, a wonderful husband and dad, a loving son (even though he hasn't seen his parents in eight years), an honest businessman (even though his firm is suffused with peculation) and an all-around sweetheart.

All without a trace of irony but a surplus of sitcom-like gags about nutty old pop. The film's first hour simply doesn't have the courage of its final 45 minutes' convictions.

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20th Century Fox

Mario & Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Silvio Berlusconi present a Penta Pictures Production

Producers Victor Drai, Malcolm R. Harding

Director Ted Kotcheff

Writer Robert Klane

Director of photography Larry Pizer

Production designer William J. Creber

Editor Joan E. Chapman

Music Michel Colombier

Casting Lynn Stalmaster

Color/Dolby

Cast:

Jon Aldrich Tom Selleck

Harry Aldrich Don Ameche

Mildred Aldrich Anne Jackson

Audrey Aldrich Wendy Crewson

Arlene Christine Ebersole

Running time -- 108 minutes

MPAA Rating: PG-13

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