Word: gambler
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...seems to miss the inner man. (Shawcross, a British writer perhaps best known for his savaging of Henry Kissinger's Cambodia policy in Sideshow, managed to interview his subject. Murdoch read the manuscript but refused to comment on it.) One is that Murdoch is a daring but occasionally imprudent gambler, usually with other people's money. In 1990 News faced a liquidity crisis caused by the recession, a huge drop in advertising revenues, and Murdoch's reliance on short-term loans at a time when interest rates were rising rapidly. Suddenly $7.6 billion in debt, owed to 146 different institutions...
...movie producer David O. Selznick had to do it. He was a drug addict (Benzedrine), a compulsive gambler (in 1946 alone he lost $581,621) and an equally compulsive womanizer (no star, secretary or script girl was safe from his lunging, oafish passes). He was often drunk, he never smoked less than three packs a day, and he usually worked deep into the night, wearing out ranks of stenographers as he manically dictated memos, stream-of- consciousness-style, in an attempt to maintain control over every detail of his films and of a business and personal life that yearly grew...
Steinbrenner ran Winfield out of New York by harassing him, vilifying him in the press, and paying an indicted gambler, Howard Spiro, to dig up dirt on the Yankee rightfielder. As a staff editorial on the opinion page commented about Mike Beys' Spin Doctors fiasco with the Undergraduate Council, this was both stupid and sleazy...
...learned fast the American genius for appropriation. He swiped somebody else's voice, altered his name twice and his nose once, sold 105% of himself to early investors. He took plenty from everyone and didn't give back much but a kind of low-level radiance. He was a gambler, yes, but even more a dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later, for fun, in the casinos where he headlined. The hands are fast, the eyes dead. I deal the cards, you play 'em. I control your destiny...
Paul Newman stars as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler, determined to sink his rival, sharp-shooter Minnesota Fasts (Jackie Gleason). Felson risks all he owns, eventually destroying himself in his battle against Fats and his gambler-promoter (George C. Scott). Felson's game is spoiled by the woman he falls for (Piper Laurie...