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Posted by on May 6, 2014 in Blog, General Poker | 5 comments

The Story Behind ESPN’s Documentary of “One of a Kind” (Stu Ungar’s Biography)

 

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“One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘the Kid’ Ungar” was released nine years ago this week, in May of 2005.

As a first-time author, finishing that book provided relief more than any sense of personal accomplishment.  To this day, I’d like to go back and re-do the entire process all over again.  I’d be especially eager to repeat my one-on-one interviews with Stuey, if that were possible.  I just think they could have been done better.

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Posted by on May 2, 2014 in Blog, Politics | 1 comment

Network: The Movie that Predicted Our Future

 

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From corporations captained by fatcats beholden solely to profiteers peddling their pornographic propaganda, to the perversion of reality television, to the demise of original thought, to shock TV, to theater of the absurd and even more absurd — the make believe fantasy of Network of the mid-seventies has become American television reality.

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