Jeff Haney
EOG Addicted
I agree that "California Split" is the best gambling movie and that it's not really close.
Here's a story I wrote based on an interview with Joseph Walsh, the screenwriter of "California Split," in 2008:
http://www.sophisticatedmaniac.com/2008/07/nobody-writes-gambling-as-well-as.html
He talks about how he had to battle studio executives, who wanted to dumb down the movie for mass appeal.
Key quote from Walsh from the article: ?I was writing for all the gamblers of the world, people who are going to turn out and watch the movie and say, ?Oh, God, this man is in our heart and soul.? ?
I also agree with AB on "Into the Wild." That's in my top three books of all-time.
The crime novelist he mentioned, James Crumley, had more of a cult following than mass-market success. Here's the NY Times obit on him:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20crumley.html?scp=1&sq=crumley&st=cse
For what it's worth I don't share AB's enthusiasm for "Donnie Darko." Just not my thing.
Here's a story I wrote based on an interview with Joseph Walsh, the screenwriter of "California Split," in 2008:
http://www.sophisticatedmaniac.com/2008/07/nobody-writes-gambling-as-well-as.html
He talks about how he had to battle studio executives, who wanted to dumb down the movie for mass appeal.
Key quote from Walsh from the article: ?I was writing for all the gamblers of the world, people who are going to turn out and watch the movie and say, ?Oh, God, this man is in our heart and soul.? ?
I also agree with AB on "Into the Wild." That's in my top three books of all-time.
The crime novelist he mentioned, James Crumley, had more of a cult following than mass-market success. Here's the NY Times obit on him:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/books/20crumley.html?scp=1&sq=crumley&st=cse
For what it's worth I don't share AB's enthusiasm for "Donnie Darko." Just not my thing.