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...Capital, whose seasoned investors had nearly doubled their money from 1994 to 1997, could have got so deeply in trouble. The fund was headed by legendary trader John Meriwether, who helped make Salomon Brothers the top bond house of the 1980s, as recounted in the best seller Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. The partners, who worked out of waterfront offices in tony Greenwich, Conn., included Nobel-prizewinning economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton and former Fed Vice Chairman David Mullins. As their price for the bailout, the creditors acquired a 90% stake in the fund, which effectively removed Meriwether...
Matt Damon, quite early in his career, is already being typecast--as a genius, no less. In Rounders, he just sits there, like a boring poker game that has its ending broadcast in the first hand. Rounders offers us convincing evidence that all the players involved should carefully adjust the directions of their careers. John Dahl, for instance, should return to the genre which made him famous--the sexually charged neo-noir thriller that he basically reinvented. Matt Damon should go for range and dive into a weird character--maybe even a villain. (Sacre bleu!) Gretchen Mol should have...
Mike (Matt Damon) is a gifted, honorable, high-stakes poker player trying to leave the game so he can finish law school. Worm (Edward Norton) is a gifted, dishonorable player given to dealing from the bottom of the deck. The mystery of Rounders is why a smart guy risks repute, not to mention life and limb, to help a dumb and self-destructive one. Still, if Rounders lacks the sardonically twisted plots and people of Dahl's best work (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction), it is, like them, well acted and atmospherically arresting. The director fails to fill this...
...noted with interest the number of cards Starr is holding--nine [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 10]. Unless he is playing some crazy wild-card game, unlikely in high-stakes poker, he has way too many cards. In real life, he would lose the hand and perhaps even be banished from the game! Is this an omen? ROBERT P. CLIFFORD Palos Verdes, Calif...
UNITED NATIONS: For Muammar Ghaddafi, that was a poker face. The Libyan leader's rambling, repetitive and occasionally defiant interview on CNN Thursday afternoon -- "They are not pieces of fruit," Ghaddafi said more than once, referring to the suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing -- left observers first chuckling and then wondering: How sincere...