Despite being the game’s most iconic marketeer, apparently, Kenny Rogers has no clue how to play Texas Hold’em.
Read MoreAfter so many years, one would expect Kenny Rogers to knows how to play Texas Hold’em.
But the singer of “The Gambler” apparently still has no idea Hold’em is a poker game where each player holds two cards.
Not five cards. Two.
Read MoreEvery World Series of Poker is special. Attend enough of them, and each year becomes a well-defined moment and a new entry onto one’s personal timeline. What creates such indelible impressions? Not the poker hands. Not the prize money. Not even the coveted gold bracelets – and I have witnessed more than half of the final hands that have taken place in the tournament’s 45-year history. Rather, it’s the people. It’s all the interesting personalities and their unique stories that I remember, and even revere, the most. This year, I had the great pleasure of meeting two remarkable people who I believe you will find just as fascinating as I did.
“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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Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreI like Ellen DeGeneres.
I think Ms. DeGeneres is a wonderful talent and an inspiration to millions.
I was a big fan of her work both as a stand-up comedian and later when she had a prime-time hit television show on ABC. I used to watch her show every week.
However: She’s a TERRIBLE host of the Academy Awards show.
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