Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondent David DeVoss, covering the scene in Las Vegas, did not get off as easily, even with the benefit of expert advice. "There's no such thing as a winning gambler," a casino manager told him. Anxious to challenge that statement, DeVoss consulted a slot machine. Reports DeVoss: "The $15 I lost convinced me that casino managers are more truthful than casino marquees...
...greatest potential area of competition is, of course, sports betting, which accounts for 90% of the action currently handled by illegal bookies ?despite the old gambler's adage, "Never bet on anything that talks." It has been called the "big button." Delaware recently became the first state to start a football lottery. Called Touchdown, it takes into account the point spread between opposing teams, just as the bookies do. In brief, that means that somebody betting on, say, the Seattle Seahawks, who are rated nine-point underdogs, wins if Seattle wins, or even if Seattle loses by eight points...
Just a Gigolo. This old woman has come to Paris for a last visit with her favorite son (Joseph Maher). As a boy, he used to idle away hours in the trees. As a man, he has idled away his life as a compulsive gambler and is now a gigolo in a nightclub. The woman he lives with is the club hustler (Suzanne Lederer). The conversational pas de trois that these three engage in is replete with bitterness and non-sequitur absurdist humor. The performers are also forced to carry an elephantine load of symbolism...
...Aldo had captured Al's countenance, it would have been something like this: a thinning silver-covered pate with remnants of the original black peeking out from beneath, all of it swept back along an unusually neat part; a smooth unflappable brow, something a gambler might try to cultivate (you cannot tell when he's riled or when a political card is up his sleeve by reading this brow); unremarkable eyebrows and ears; something of a potato nose; and the eyes of a predator bird...
Born. To James Caan, 37, street-smart superstar (The Godfather, The Gambler), and former Model Sheila Ryan Caan, 23: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Scott Andrew...