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Best Gambling Comedy Titles!
Posted May 6, 2009
on:Best Gambling Comedy Titles!
Mr. Lucky (1943) | All Through the Night (1941) | Du Shen / God of Gamblers (1989)
Mr. Lucky
Plot: It tells the story of a romance between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the early days of World War II. Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.
Cast:
Cary Grant … Joe Adams / Joe Bascopolous
Laraine Day … Dorothy Bryant
Charles Bickford … Hard Swede
Gladys Cooper … Captain Veronica Steadman
Alan Carney … Crunk
Henry Stephenson … Mr. Bryant
Paul Stewart … Zepp
Kay Johnson … Mrs. Mary Ostrander
Erford Gage … Henchman
Walter Kingsford … Commissioner Hargraves
Florence Bates … Mrs. Van Every
All Through the Night
Plot:
Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty’s partner Joe is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi disappear. It turns out that beneath all the mystery is a gang of Nazi operatives planning to blow up a battleship in New York harbor
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart … Gloves Donahue
Conrad Veidt … Ebbing
Kaaren Verne … Leda Hamilton
Jane Darwell … Mrs. Donahue
Frank McHugh … Barney
Peter Lorre … Pepi
Judith Anderson … Madame
William Demarest … Sunshine
Jackie Gleason … Starchy (as Jackie C. Gleason)
Phil Silvers … Waiter
Wallace Ford … Spats Hunter (as Wally Ford)
Barton MacLane … Marty Callahan
Edward Brophy … Joe Denning
Martin Kosleck … Steindorff
Jean Ames … Annabelle
Du Shen AKA GOD OF GAMBLERS
Plot:
Do San (the God of gamblers) is a legendary gambler helped by his supernatural abilities. He undertakes to help a friend pay a debt by beating his friend’s advisory at the card table. Despite being assigned a bodyguard Do San has a freak accident which leaves him with partial memory loss and at a mental stage of a child. The small time hustler Knife, his side-kick and his girl friend, being responsible for the accident takes care of the retarded Do San. After some time they discover that he has not lost all of his powers and takes him on a round at the local gambling halls. After being chased by both Knife’s loan-shark and enemies closer to the home of Do San, a final showdown at the card tables may take place.
Cast:
Yun-Fat Chow … Ko Chun / ‘The God of Gamblers’ (as Chow Yun Fat)
Andy Lau … Michael Chan / Little Knife / Dagger
Joey Wang … Jane
Fong Lung … Ko Yee (as Lung Fong)
Fui-On Shing … Kau
Charles Heung … Lung Wu / ‘Dragon’
Sharla Cheung … Janet (as Man Cheung)
Man Tat Ng … Brother Shing
Hon Lam Bau … Chan Kam-Shing
Michael Chow Man-Kin … Casino Manager
Daily Life Jokes
Posted April 30, 2009
on:Dress to Impress
My boyfriend and I were taking his 19-year-old niece to a weekend festival. When we arrived at her house to pick her up, she appeared in tasteful but very short shorts, and a tank top with spaghetti straps. A debate began immediately about appropriate dress. I took the girl’s side, recalling that when we began dating, I dressed the same way.
“Yes,” said my boyfriend sternly, “and I said something about it, didn’t I?”
Everyone looked at me. “Yeah,” I replied. “You said, ‘What’s your phone number?'”
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Guilty Tax Payer
Dear IRS: I’m sending you this money because I cheated on my income tax and my conscience has been bothering me. If it doesn’t stop, I’ll send you the rest.
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Celebrity Look Alikes – Amazing!
Posted April 29, 2009
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Lissa Stathum Looks Like Angelina Jolie
Malin Akerman looks like Lucy Lawless
Swedish Singer Owe Thornqvist Looks Like Chuck Norris
Adam Sandler Looks Like Bob Dylan
Princess Diana Look Alike – Sherry Robinson
Sophie Scott Looks like Julia Roberts
Roger Bill Looks Like Benny Hill
Austin Look Alikes
Saddam Hussein & Bush Look Alikes
Unemployment in Los Angeles County is in the double digits, but prospects are looking up for 500 strippers, thanks to the reopening of a landmark nude dancing club on the Sunset Strip.
Salah Almudarris, who owns West Hollywood’s The Body Shop, says the club will reopen Thursday night, creating jobs for about 20 staff and as many as 500 of what he terms “independent contractors.”
An electrical fire badly damaged the Sunset Boulevard venue in December.
Almudarris says about 50 women will work each night and they could earn upward of $1,000 each.
The venue dates back decades and was mentioned in the 1980s Motley Crue song, “Girls, Girls, Girls.”
Almudarris says area bars may get a boost too, as his club serves no alcohol.
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has criticised the British tabloid that conducted a sting on Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali’s father Rafiq Qureshi.
Kapur, who directed a soft drinks advertisement with the nine-year-old and Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman recently in Udaipur in Rajasthan, has slammed the media organisation for the report and suggested that the “British tabloid needs to be condemned for the sting operation”.
“I just worked with Rubina, the little girl from Slumdog Millionaire and what a joy she was to work with… I had been reading about what was going on with her father’s alleged attempts to ‘sell’ her. I was aghast though at the sting operation done by that British tabloid, which, instead of being condemned worldwide, is being heralded as a great piece of journalism,” Kapur posted on his blog on Tuesday.
“…What was the tabloid trying to do? Trying to push a father to name a price for his daughter’s adoption?…How dare they judge and manipulate other people and their moral predicaments from their comfortable colonial point of view. I would rather have them arrested for obscene suggestions and offers than the father for coming to the negotiating table,” he added.
The online edition of the tabloid newsoftheworld.co.uk had reported that in a bid to escape slum life, Qureshi put Rubina up for adoption, demanding £200,000 from the organisation’s undercover reporters posing as a wealthy family from Dubai.
Tabloid newsoftheworld.co.uk Rubina Ali Cover Story
Slumdog Millionaire’s Rubina Ali is in the news again. But this time the news is not good. The girl’s father, Rafiq Qureshi has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell his daughter for 200,000 pounds.
He was arrested after a complaint was filed by Rubina’s biological mother, Khurshida. The 36-year-old man’s ex-wife claimed that she was aware of the matter two weeks ago. She alleged that Rubina, who plays young Latika in Slumdog, was being sold off to a sheikh in Dubai . Based on the complaint, the police took Qureshi for questioning.
They are also trying to get the video recordings of the meeting at which the deal was supposedly brokered. Terming her ex-husband and his new wife Mina as “money-crazy”, Khurshida said the two were desperate to cash-in on the nine-year-old’s fame. Rafiq, however has denied the allegations. Even his daughter has expressed her desire to remain with her dad.
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