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.o F{ =oz oz Dozoo10/[ 6ltd,o n Hollywood's golden age, MGM boasted it had "more stars than there are in heaven." The new "Ocean's Thirteen" - with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle as Tour of its con artists, plus AI Pacino - can say the same, Here are other flicks that bulged with big names.</p><p> Michael Giltz GRAND HOTEL O932) The eerv: Greta carbo is a ballerina who just wants to be alone, surrounded by guests like John Barrymore as her light-fingered lovel Lionel Barrymore as a dying man, Wallace Beery as a tycoon, Joan Crawford as a striving secretary and other stars of the day.</p><p> Th€Job: cranddaddy of the all-staifilm, and a Best Picture winner.</p><p> IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1953) Th€ Ow Spencer Tracy is the detective overseeing a motley collection of treasule hunters (Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman).</p><p> The movie is almost three hours long, but half of that seems to be the credits. il|e Job: The loot from a robbery is out there somewhere - if you don't get tripped up by the million gags in this overstuffed comedy.</p><p> ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS (1964) lhe 6e$ Frank Sinatra plays a gangster with a heart of gold in this final Rat Pack extravaganz4 with 8in9 Crosby and Edward c.</p><p> Robinson ioining Dean Martin, Sammy Davis lr. and Peter Falk.</p><p> TheJob: Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, as long as there's money left over for booze and babes and time for a song, THE DIRTY DOZEN O967) fl|e qeff Lee Maruin is the craggy leader of a band of misfits and criminals, including Telly Saialas, Charles gronson, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown, John Cdsavetes and Ernest Borgnine. fhe rob: Redeem their criminal past by going on a suicide mission during World War ll.</p><p> Escaping afterward is the tficky part.</p><p> MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 0974) The qe$r Albert Finney is Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot.</p><p> Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, John cielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Perkins play guilty-looking passengers.</p><p> The rob: A nasty old man h6 been murdered and Poirot has to sort through countless suspects in order to discover the killer.</p><p> THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) The qw Steve McQueen is the coolest frreman in history.</p><p> Paul Newman is the coolest architect in history.</p><p> And William Holden, Faye Dunaway, O.J.</p><p> Simpson, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones and Fred Astaire are the guests trapped in a burning skyscraper.</p><p> The Job: Keep everyone calm untll they die or are rescued ("The Poseidon Adventure' lacked McQueen and Newman's firepower.) THE CANNONBALL RUN (1981) The qetil Burt Reynolds thrcws a party on the road for his friends, including Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda, Jamie Farr, Roger Moore and Terry Bradshaw.</p><p> Somsne remembers to brinq alono a movie camera- nie drbi A ElblslCountry tu.", uut i'. ,.at point is to crack each ' otherup and fill'the closing credits with bloopersj