Picture a world where poker is the game, but five card draw is so exceedingly simple that nobody thinks to play. A world where the ante is upwards of a grand and the pot can reach $60,000. A world where one minute you can be up and on your way to Vegas, and with the flip of a card you can be broke on the street.
'Rounders' raises Damon's stakes
Just when you thought Chuck Woodson left campus, here he comes again, this time gracing the cover of EA Sports' "NCAA Football '99." The sophomore edition of this series comes packed with crushing tackles, big plays and every division I-A school that you never knew existed.
New football season scores high: NCAA Football '99
"Simon Birch," suggested by John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany," is dripping with Hollywood cliché from its very beginning. Simon Birch, the smallest baby ever delivered in Gravestown, a boy that no one gave a chance to live a day, much less a lifetime, dreams of being a hero.Preachy 'Birch' isn't 'Meaney'
It is a story of love, and a story that lacks love. It is a story of living, and a story of those who have never truly lived. In his latest novel, "Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue," James Purdy explores what it means to lose a love and the feeling of never having loved at all.
Purdy's 'Gertrude' nds and loses love: Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
O.K., let's face it: sometimes men can be a little unbearable (to say the least). Often after a Mr. Right walks out the door forever, there is an intimate bonding that occurs between women regarding why Mr. Right - like many other men - turned out to be Mr.'Let's talk about' low-quality films
HOLLYWOOD - Fred and Ben Savage have grown up before viewers' eyes.
Fred came to fame playing Kevin Arnold in the classic ABC series "The Wonder Years." Now 22 and one term shy of getting a degree in English from Stanford University in Palo Alto, he is entering his second season on NBC's sitcom "Working," playing a young executive who wants to ascend the corporate ladder by virtue of his own hard work.Savage brothers grow into big stars
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