Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gambler's Paradise," the city is labeled. But anyone who has visited Las Vegas knows that the slogan is a contradiction in terms. In the neon wilderness, blue-haired ladies pull on the one-armed bandits as if they were lifelines; at the card and crap tables, aggressive customers line up like lambs for the fleecing. Like a Vegas concession, The Only Game in Town is a tempting trap. The odds look attractive: Elizabeth Taylor back at her fighting weight, Warren Beatty in his first film since Bonnie and Clyde, both directed by George Stevens (Shane, Giant...
Lingering Stink. "McLain," reports SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, "who had previously been betting basketball and hockey with the Syrians-and losing-agreed and put up the money. Poor, dumb Denny-who is also known to his teammates as Dolphin, because he is a fish as a gambler-was easy game. The money the bettors lost was taken by the Syrians. The payouts on winning bets came from the money McLain and fatherly Ed Schober invested...
...much of a problem keeping his head out of the sand. When lobbying, manipulating and advertising for an Oscar reached fever pitch back in the early '60s, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy withdrawing his name from the nominations. His portrait of Bert Gordon, the ulcerous, vulpine gambler in The Hustler, is one of the modern screen's great essays in villainy, but not surprisingly, Scott failed to receive the Oscar...
INVESTIGATIONS Dice Dawson's Luck Ask any dedicated crapshooter in a garbage-strewn alley or a carpeted casino and he will admit it: sooner or later the cubes turn cold and hostile in the most gifted fist. The streak of Donald ("Dice") Dawson, versatile gambler and fashionable bookmaker, lasted for many years. When his luck finally sank as a result of a federal investigation centered in Detroit, the ensuing ripples knocked over 13 other gamblers and threatened to implicate a number of prominent athletes around the country...