The Vig

HT: Wired.
Double hat tip:  Pete in Parkrose.  He knows why.
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Robert De Niro’s character Ace Rothstein in Casino, one of my all-time favorite movies, was based on Rosenthal.  USA just showed the movie yesterday.  Don’t know whether that was planned or not.  Either way, Rosenthal was as much an innovator as he was a bad guy.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has much more here.
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Update: If you’re a Rick Emerson fan, you’ll really appreciate it about 2:55 in. I had to go clean my keyboard.
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I remember watching this live when I was all of 14 and thinking it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. Especially the part where Bono climbed down to dance with the random fan. That part seemed to go on forever. And it was a lot more intimate in my memory.  Apparently [...]

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If you missed it on SNL last night, here’s the open in all it’s dead-on glory. I hope this isn’t the last we’ve seen of Tina Fey as Palin.
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Sitting at Pals Shanty Saturday night, I saw the ad for the new DeNiro/Pacino flick Righteous Kill.  Young Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone in a movie together?  Sign me up!
I texted Aaron Duran, proprietor of Geek in the City and co-proprietor of Film Fever Radio, to see what he’d heard.  He said he hadn’t heard [...]

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Home teams are now 26-4 when Martina McBride sings the national anthem before an NFL game.  Certain people might find this information of use.
Hat tip:  Deadspin
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Hey!  I haven’t done one of these for a while.  Must be an autumn/football thing.
Oregon City Pioneers: What are they, like the fifth largest high school in the state?  And the demographics haven’t changed that much since I was there two decades ago.  Yet somehow they manage to perennially suck.  At least since Coach Burton [...]

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Last month it was Steven Page getting arrested for cocaine possession.  This evening comes word that fellow bandmember Ed Robertson was involved in a plane crash in Ontario.  Ed’s fine, just a little shaken up.
This summer just gets weirder and weirder for the group.  Like I said, the next album should be most interesting.
HT:  Hangry
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It’s not the best movie you’re going to see this summer.  That honor goes to The Dark Knight.  There are just so many things going on in that 107 minutes.  Watching Jack Black play a whacked out heroin junkie while Robert Downey Jr., a real-life recovering heroin junkie, stood by, was priceless.  Tom Cruise showed [...]

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