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...other, more fashionable games like blackjack and roulette. No one, it seemed, played poker anymore. No one bright or fashionable, that is. But suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold 'Em, poker's luck has turned - spectacularly. "It's red hot," says Hard Rock Hotel casino executive Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck. He ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deal Me In | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

Everybody loves a hero," Peter Parker's Aunt May tells him in Spider-Man 2. "People line up for 'em." This summer they have lined up at the multiplexes for two unlikely heroes: Peter, the quiet college student who when duty calls becomes Spider-Man, and Shrek, the green ogre out of a revisionist fairy tale. Shrek 2 is now the fifth top-grossing film of all time in the U.S. Spider-Man 2 has set records of its own: it reached the $200 million mark for domestic box office in just eight days. These two sequels - and the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Helping Summer | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...morning of June 17, 1933, seven men--local cops and federal agents--were loading a bank robber named Frank Nash into a car in Kansas City, Mo. Suddenly a voice barked, "Let 'em have it!" and the group was engulfed by a storm of bullets. When the shooting stopped, somebody said, "Everyone's dead in here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crimes and Misdemeanors | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...powerhouse"--the muscles in the abdomen, buttocks and lower back that are the collective point of origin for all Pilates exercises. "I give people homework," she says, "like exercises to do in bed before you even put your feet on the floor in the morning. We don't pop 'em into a class and command them to do a hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Swinging | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...Everybody loves a hero," Peter Parker's Aunt May tells him in Spider-Man 2. "People line up for 'em." This summer they have lined up at the multiplexes for two unlikely heroes: Peter, the quiet college student who when duty calls becomes Spider-Man, and Shrek, the green ogre out of a revisionist fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second-Helping Summer | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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