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Marcello
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I also dislike race car flicks. The only poker film I enjoyed was directed by Norman Jewison, who's other notable films are "In the Heat of the Night", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Rollerball", "And Justice for All..", "Moonstruck", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and of course his poker film, "The Cincinnati Kid", with Steve McQueen, Ann Margret, Karl Malden, and the great Edward G. Robinson. I can't remember whether I liked the film because I dig McQueen, or how sexy the young red head Ann Margret was. "The Sting" was only enjoyable because I liked the duo of Newman and Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". There's one film that's not necessarily about cards, but gambling. It was written by the maverick auteur James Toback and directed by the renown British director Karol Reisz ("Isadora"). It's the 1974 film "The Gambler" starring James Caan and loosely based on Dostoevsky's novel by the same title. It's about a university professor from a prominent Jewish family who's addicted to gambling and life on the dark side. It's replete with Existential themes, just as in Dostoevsky's novel. Toback is a Harvard graduate who was assigned to do an interview with Jim Brown. After living at Brown's mansion they became close friends and the interview turned into the book "Jim: The Author's Self-centered Memoir on the Great Jim Brown". A few years later Toback wrote and directed "Fingers", another semi-autobiography starring Harvey Keitel as a concert pianist son of a genteel Jewish mother who ends up in a psychiatric ward, and an Italian-American loan shark father played by playwright and actor Michael Gazzo who wrote "A Hatful of Rain" and played Frank Pantangeli in "The Godfather part II", for whom "Fingers" works as a collector, which drags him into the dark world of organized crime, and ultimately murder. "The Beat that my Heart Skipped" is the French remake of "Fingers" and is at times even better than the original. My professor was a gambler and much like the characters Caan and Keitel portrayed in the two films. He juggled an interesting life of being a college professor, an attorney, a political activist, a family man, and a gambler always pushing the envelope and going beyond the limit. After losing a great deal of money and about to lose his family, he went to Gambler's Anonymous. One night he said a very peculiar man got up and began talking about graduating from Harvard College, magna cum laude, marrying a Rothschild, being a success in the film business, and having a contract on his life for owning a great deal of money to some shady people. It was Jim Toback. They became good friends and finally kicked the habit, or actually sublimated the urge through art and other non-lethal, socially acceptable channels. In 1991, Toback finally got recognized for his incredible screenwriting skills when he won numerous awards for the film "Bugsy" about Jewish mobster, Benjamin Siegel. --------------------- |
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