The other day I came across a column I’d written for SI On Campus in April of 2005. It’s about poker, specifically Texas Hold ‘Em. I doubt it ever made it to the web. Thought a few of you might enjoy it.
Hands Across America
During a three-month jag through Poker Nation, the author went all in, bluffing TAs and getting schooled by future MBAs
by John Walters
Seductive eyes. Charming smile. Eric has been coveting my stack of chips from the moment he met me. And he is good. Real good.
“I was playing in a game against my accounting professor,” the Indiana sophomore tells me, “and I raised without even looking at my hole cards. The flop comes 6-7-9 rainbow. I go outside for a few minutes. Then I check, and he checks. A 9 on the turn. Now I look, I’m holding 6-6. I got the boat (6s full of 9s). So I go all in and win $150. I mean, it was blind luck.”
Eric took his professor to school. And now he was looking to do the same to me. Eric is the devil—don’t think I didn’t notice that he beat his professor with a 6-6-6.
Three months ago I didn’t know a big blind from a duck blind. The first time I sat in on a game, on Super Bowl Sunday at the University of Florida, I was relieved of my entire $20 buy-in after only two hands. Gainesville? Lossesville.
Greater moments of ignominy awaited on my Heart (Club, Diamond, Spade) of Darkness odyssey. When an internet poker honcho’s offer to put me in touch with Doyle Brunson was met with apathy on my end, he asked, “Do you know who Doyle Brunson is?”
“Uh, no,” I replied.
“He’s the Babe Ruth of poker.”
Wait a beat.
“Who’s Babe Ruth?” That, I have since learned, is called re-raising with rags.
“The thing that separates good players from marginal players,” Flounder, a Duke senior, told me a month later, “is knowing when to fold.”
To think it cost me $100 in Durham that evening to learn that lesson, whereas I would have only had to spend $10.97 (plus shipping and handling) to purchase Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits. Remember when eight guys would sit around a table and smoke pot instead of splitting one?
But by now, sitting next to Eric in Bloomington, I too have become a poker face. I marvel at how addictive hold ’em is, remember what an undergrad at Central Florida told me: “My roommate is begging me to quit playing poker. Can’t stand what it’s doing to me—and she’s a stripper.”
I’m in. Eric’s in. Everyone else, after the two of us raised pre-flop, has folded. The flop comes a 3-5-8 rainbow and I raise. Eric re-raises me. I have yet to read Super/System or Super/System II, Doyle Brunson’s epochal how-to tomes on the game (whereas Eric, when I asked, “Have you read Super/System?” replied, “Which one?”), but I’m putting Eric on a high pair. The rainbow (three different suits) means he is not drawing to a flush, and his pre-flop raise indicates…well, what do I know? I’ve lost $140 researching this story.
Still, this is my moment. “I’m all in,” I say, pushing my last $60 of chips to the center of the table.
Eric grins. Studies me. Ten minutes ago I won a big pot holding nothing better than K-2 off-suited. Is the dude from SI bluffing again? Eric wonders.
“All in,” he announces, turning over his hole cards. His friends “ooh” and “ah.” My head drops as swiftly as the trap door on a hangman’s gallows.
“Got a pair of kings,” Eric says. His eyes radiate. The glow from his smile can be seen in Terre Haute. The $160 pot is—
“But you don’t,” I answer as I turn over my cards, “have a pair of aces.”*
*Looking back on the story, Eric could have won if a king had come down on the turn or the river. It did not. Not sure why I forgot to mention that.
The best part is that the Wolverines were leading by at least 20 points at this stage.
Starting Five
The Bryce Is Right*
*The judges, being Jennifer Garner fans, will also accept “13 Going On $330 Million”
Thirteen years, $330 million, from the Philadelphia Phillies. Bryce Harper, come on dowwwwwwn! Not only is Harper a perennial MVP favorite for at least the next five years (though he did have a down year last season), but his I’m-just-as-hunky-as-Chris Hemsworth looks and big bat will make him a big favorite in the City of Brotherly Love.
We’re a little surprised. Harper grew up in Las Vegas and, knowing he was choosing where to spend the remainder of his career, we thought he might opt for a West Coast club such as the Dodgers. Nope.
Phillies at Nats, April 2. The boo birds will be singing.
And yes, whoever signs Mike Trout next year will probably have to give him a state or an outer planet to retain him.
2. Morality and Michael Cohen
We can only assume that Brooks dons himself in Brooks Brothers
New York Times columnist David Brooksfrequently catches flak for being the ultimate in out-of-touch elitist populism—and we know that some of our readers already skipped beyond this item after reading its first three words—but we just want to say that we read this column last night and kept thinking, “Uh huh. Yes. That’s right. Yes. You get it. True.”
Read it for yourselves. We found it an accurate summation of the conundrum facing this republic of ours, and how we got here.
3. Fair Or Foul?
At the Connecticut Indoor State Championships last weekend, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood finished 1st and 2nd in the 55-meter sprint. Meanwhile at the collegiate level, CeCe Telfer of Franklin Pierce University is the top-ranked 55-meter sprinter in Division II.
Miller and Yearwood are both transgender athletes, while Telfer only a year ago competed on her school’s men’s team under the name of Craig.
It’s a little early, perhaps, to understand all the physiological effects and nuances of the gender transformation process, but we hardly think that if you question it that you are not woke. Or that you are just as bigoted or pig-headed as someone who didn’t want Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier.
It’s at least fair to ask if this is fair. People who are born as males and develop musculature as males and then suddenly alter their hormone intake for a year or so…well, does that make them females in terms of competing on a level playing field? The results suggest that people at least need to study this more.
4. Catch Of The Day
This is a seven-foot long hoodwinker sunfish that washed up on the beach in California not far from Santa Barbara this week. The oddity here is that the hoodwinker has only been spotted off the coasts of Chile and New Zealand. So how did it come to cross sub-tropical waters and find itself near California?
This goes back to the MH theory of “What would happen if we just shipped a bunch of polar bears to Antarctica?” Answer: There’d be a hell of a lot of unhappy penguins, but what else? Anyway, the world is coming to an end but don’t worry, Jesus is going to get off the Barca-lounger and save us all because, certainly, we deserve it.
This is where photo captions can make a big difference. Our intrepid canoeist is not starring in Jurassic Park 4: Drenched World, but rather a resident of Guerneville, California, paddling through a flooded miniature golf course. Props to the photog who saw the potential here.
Music 101
Little Red Corvette
There are, to our knowledge, no songs about Ferraris, Jaguars, Porsches, Lamborghinis or even McLarens. No one knows what a Barchetta looks like other than that it’s red, the song “Tesla Girl” precedes the vehicle by at least two decades, and Mercedes only got a line in an Eagles song about an unearthly desert lodge. But Prince wrote a famous ode to America’s signature high-performance vehicle even if only as a metaphor. From 1983…
Remote Patrol
Gran Torino
7 p.m. (& 9:30 p.m.) AMC
During this scene, we were really hoping Clint would say that he couldn’t remember how many bullets he had remaining in the chamber.
If there’s a “Get Off My Lawn” genre of films, this and Falling Down belong as the highlight double feature. Grouchy Clint Eastwood, which is his default mood in films these days (he’s always been grouchy, he was just too handsome for you to notice before), a bunch of Crazy Lower-Middle Class Asians, and a red-headed priest (whom we served at a party last summer and who sheepishly acknowledged, Yeah, it is I).
This means Michael Cohen is created in God’s image?
Starting Five
M.C. Hammers
This is the refreshing sound of a man who has no flubs left to give:
Watch this if you missed it live because it will be played again and again for generations to explain what happened to a major political party in America pic.twitter.com/QFwKjS7Aes
And this is that same human being in the summer of 2016 when he was being paid to fib. Notice the difference.
Michael Cohen is going away to prison for three years, but yesterday before a live national audience he provided a glimpse of the prevaricating man for whom he toiled for 10 years. Yesterday was also a good day to review some of your old debate team terms, such as ad hominem attacks (the only weapon the GOP congressmen had in their arsenal) and Occam’s Razor (the concept that “simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex ones”).
2. Agent Orange
Once the star of The Apprentice, the president arrived in Hanoi as a contestant on Deal Or New Deal. Clearly, he picked the wrong suitcase. Trump’s deployment in-country was roughly 363 days briefer than had he done it in 1967 (“You think I’m stupid? I wasn’t going to Vietnam”) but with pretty much the same results: America lost.
In just a day or so, Trump publicly stated that he believes North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un when he said (if he even ever did) that he had no knowledge of the treatment American prisoner Otto Wambier was receiving (he died shortly after being released), making America 2-2 in believing evil dictators, or simply not caring, when it comes to murdered U.S. residents/citizens in the past five months.
Wow. He even found a way for the US to lose in Vietnam again.
Then, after North Korea pressed for an end to sanctions and the U.S. said no, there was apparently nothing left to discuss and today’s lunch was canceled. Credit Trump for not acceding to Jong-Un’s demands, but maybe Donald, better than anyone, should know that you cannot deal in good faith with a fundamentally dishonest person.
Trump will be able to make it back to the States early enough to attend the CPAC, where the latest cause celebre is post-birth abortions (because nothing will get Ma and Pa Evangelist more riled up than libs murdering sweet little babies, even if this isn’t actually a thing).
3. Dwyane’s World
On Monday evening the Miami Heat (27-33) lost at home to the Phoenix Suns, the NBA’s worst team. It was the Heat’s eighth consecutive home defeat. So what happens next?
The Golden State Warriors, owners of the West’s best record, visit Miami Arena and the Heat win. How? On Dwyane Wade’s unlikely buzzer-beating bank-shot trey, after Kevin Durant blocked his previous attempt. The corn-rowed future HOF’er even shot it off one foot. Even the Dubs had to laugh.
4. They Neglect Horses, Don’t They
We’re just beginning to swing into horsey racing season (the Florida Oaks! The Arkansas Derby!), the prelude to the Triple Crown. Will we be reading or hearing much about the NINETEEN horses that have already died at Santa Anita Raceway in southern California this winter.
After three horses had to be put down in as many days (most of the deaths have been accident-related during races), the track closed for two days for an evaluation of the racing surface. But it’s reopening today. Somewhere the producers of HBO’s ill-fated Luck are wondering why it takes only three dead horses to get a show canceled but you can keep a track operational when 19 die in one season.
5. 90210ld*
*Now this the judges DID steal from Bill Simmons
Yesterday word came that the original cast of Beverly Hills 90210(sans Luke Perry) would be reuniting for a six-episode run. You gotta think the cast of Melrose Place heard this and thought, It’s time to do some Cross Fit.
Legit, we’d have to guess that 90210 was Fox’s first breakout show as a prime-time entertainment network. What a concept: beautiful teens in a beautiful location (and no minorities! It was the early Nineties). We don’t remember how or even if 90210, which ran from 1990-2000, ever handled the L.A. Riots or the O.J. Trial, but things always seemed, er, peachy, at the Peach Pit.
But now it’s nearly 20 years later? Which characters will suffer from Dad Bod? Botox Overdose? Who runs a yoga studio? Who’s had to ship out to the Valley? Addicted to kombucha? Can’t wait.
Music 101
Little Deuce Coupe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1HtpTonJI
Wanna race? Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill But she’ll walk a Thunderbird like (she’s) it’s standin’ still. Released as the B-side to “Surfer Girl” in 1963, this ode to hot-rodding still hit No. 15 on the charts for the Beach Boys. California in the early Sixties sounds like paradise to us. She’s my little deuce coupe. You don’t know what I got.
BREAKING: Pres. Trump touches down in Vietnam for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump is under pressure to demonstrate what meaningful progress has been made since the first meeting, and what the U.S. stands to gain going forward https://t.co/gd21fSgBHMpic.twitter.com/18mgc6i4Wt
Is 52 years still “fashionably late?” Still, you gotta hand it to Trump. Avoids service in Vietnam and thinks, No, I’m not going there until I’m in charge of the entire damned Armed Forces of the United States. Loathe him all you want, but that’s a mic drop moment.
Gaetz perpetually looks as if he’s headed to his 20-year Sig Ep reunion
Lieutenant Kendrick, I Presume
As much as “Everything comes back to Seinfeld” relates to everyday life, “Everything comes back to A Few Good Men” is a solid aphorism in terms of political or power-related machinations. Hence, when we watched Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, who reminds us of an overly helpful SEC sports information director right up until the minute you break the story about his coach boinking a secretary or having a bag man, attempt to intimidate witness Michael Cohen yesterday, we thought of Lieutenant Kendrick (Kiefer Sutherland).
This of course would make our president Col. Nathan Jessup (“You want me to build that wall, you need me to build that wall!). Here’s what Gaetz tweeted out yesterday, later claiming that it was “witness testing” and not “witness tampering”:
Hey @MichaelCohen212 – Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…
Like Kendrick, who carried out Jessup’s Code Red (passing on the illegal order to Dawson and Downey), Gaetz is an unabashedly loyal Trumpian foot soldier. As are Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Devin Nunes (California). Their hope is that when the Trump presidency is over, they will become the new leaders of the extreme right. We’ll see.
Stormy Daniels! Roger Stone! Racism! Bone spurs! Michael Cohen’s prepared testimony is the “NOW! That’s What I Call Music” of President Trump’s greatest hits. https://t.co/Fq852zp9Xi
It took us awhile, but we finally placed the actor who reminds us of Gaetz. His name is Steven Eckholdt, and he played Jed Bartlett’s adulterous and clueless and untrustworthy son-in-law on The West Wing. “It always comes back to Aaron Sorkin” is another good aphorism. Eckholdt also played Rachel’s douchey co-worker on Friends (below). He’s always the guy you can’t stand.
2. Nolan’s Payday
Do you know this man? He just secured the largest pay day for a position player in baseball history in terms of per-year salary: $32.5 million per year for the next eight years.
It’s not that Nolan Arenado, 26, isn’t deserving if anyone is. A third baseman, he’s earned six Gold Gloves in his six seasons and four All-Star selections. And if he played in a more visible market, he might’ve won and MVP or two by now. The southern California native, of Cuban ancestry, has led the National League in homers twice and in RBI three times.
It’s just that no one outside of Denver or the offices of Baseball America knows who he is. And that’s probably just fine by him. He’s not looking to be a celebrity. If someone wants to pay him Mike Trout/Bryce Harper money and he can remain relatively anonymous, he’ll take it. Speaking of those two, one if not both is going to be earning more than Arenado per year soon (Trout next year).
For those wondering, Nolan Ryan earned less than $26 million over the course of his entire 26-season HOF career.
3. The Clancy Of Queens
During our 800-or-so mile drive last Saturday, we listened to a plethora of NPR (we normally would have written “a lot of NPR” but it’s NPR so we felt as if we should up our game). That’s partly because in the vast open spaces of Nevada it was often the one station that would come in static-free but also because it’s usually a welcome companion on a long road trip: we listened to “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” and “Ask Me Another.” Twice. Both shows.
And we also listened to two episodes of The Moth, which is where people like you and me take the stage in front of a live audience and tell true stories about themselves. As you might imagine, these are hit-or-miss. The huge hit for us was Tara Clancy, a girl from Queens who being both Irish and a New Yorker is a born raconteur. On career opportunities growing up in Queens: “You were either going to be A), a cop or B), not a cop.”
Then again, maybe we were just an extremely captive audience.
4. The People Problem
In 1800 there were an estimated one billion people inhabiting planet Earth. Now, just a little more than two centuries later, there are 7.7 billion people living on this planet (and now we feel even worse by the number of visitors we get to this site daily). It is estimated, unless we have some catastrophic nuclear war or epidemic, that the global population will exceed 10 billion humans by the end of the century.
This is something we heard last week that alarmed us: there are currently more people living on Earth than all the people who ever lived on Earth in the history of humanity (and still the Suns cannot put together a decent starting lineup).
Guess what, my friends: that growth curve is not sustainable, and we all can’t just get on the next SpaceX and rocket to Mars. It’s a little farther away than you may think and, oh yeah, it’s basically uninhabitable without a space suit and some mittens.
So when everyone’s favorite Latina millennial punching bag, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, suggests that Americans should stop having babies, it’s easy to dismiss her as whack or “How come you can’t keep a man, honey?” But, like most magical thinkers who aren’t appreciated by their contemporaries, she’s making a greater point if you want to take the long view.
It’s a big blue marble, but it’s not THAT big. We’re rapidly approaching critical mass, humans-wise. Never mind to what we’re doing to the environment. With the exception of a few pesky insects, man (and by that I mean Western European Man, or WEM, in particular) is the only creature unable to live in balance and harmony with his environment. At least in the past 500 years, WEM has operated on a strategy of expand and grow and “acquire” (or, colonize) and grow and grow and grow and GROW.
Maybe not in this lifetime, but in your kids’ or their kids’, that model is going to take a beating. The last thing we need more of, and bless your little darlings’ hearts, is people. Nothing personal. It’s just a fact.
5. All The Light I Can Nazi
Big day today if you’re a Nazi. Big, big day. Iron your swastika badge.
On this day in 1925 Adolf Hitler (one imprisoned in Germany for treason, you may recall) introduced the National Socialist (!) German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, to Munich. Then, eight years later on this same date, the Reichstag Fire.
If you’re unfamiliar, the Reichstag Fire set the standard for any and all False Flag operations to follow. Less than one full month after Hitler is installed as Chancellor of Germany, a fire breaks out at night at the seat of German parliament, the Reichstag. Hitler and his minions blame Communists (but of course!) and soon after the Reichstag Decree is passed, permitting Hitler to suspend most civil liberties in what had been a Democratic society.
You know the rest of the story…
Thank heavens no one of German descent with a taste for authoritarian rule and a conveniently amoral view of the world could ever be put in charge of this country. Meanwhile, if you run into any of your neighborhood Nazis today, do wish them a Happy Reichstag Fire Day and also, perhaps, to bleep off and die…
Music 101
Cars
In the first few months of 1980, The Cars were one of the most popular rock bands in the world and this song by Gary Numan was No. 1 in both the U.K. and Canada (it topped out at No. 9 here). Numan’s heavy-synth, alien-monotone vocals song out-Devo’ed Devo and made some of us wonder if guitars were dead for good. This song belongs on any and every anthology of New Wave music.
Remote Patrol
No. 10 Marquette at Villanova
9 p.m. FS1
The Warriors Golden Eagles (23-4) have the nation’s most electrifying sub-6 shooter in Markus Howard, who posted 53 in a win at Creighton earlier this winter. The Wildcats (20-8), in case you’ve forgotten, have won two of the past three national championships. Not bad. Not bad at all.*
*Although we feel as if we should recommend The Maltese Falcon at 10 a.m. EST if you have the chance to tune in.
The string of consecutive 30-point games ends at 32 for James Harden. That final sequence above is informative as the Hawks have no chance of winning but bring as many as four defenders around Harden, who went 0-10 from beyond the arc last night, to prevent him from scoring. When the play begins The Beard appears intent on making a try at it—he knows what his point total is—but by the time he crosses midcourt he realizes that they’re on to him. Still, a ridiculous and meaningless heave would have been suspenseful.
The Rockets won 119-111. Trae Young scored a career-high 36 for Atlanta. Harden’s streak is stopped just 33 games shy of tying Wilt Chamberlain‘s record (65) and why no one under age 40 recognizes Wilt as the true GOAT is utterly mystifying.
2. Decree of Difficulty
When we saw that a mother, 45, and her daughter, 19, had been arrested for the murders of five family members outside Philadelphia, we were curious. Then more curious when their names weren’t initially listed and when the story received relatively so little attention. And so we assumed…they’re probably poor and they’re probably minority. Because blonde people, if this happens to them, it’s THE NEWS of the day, if not week.
Dug a little more: the accused are Shana and Dominique Decree, and somehow they’d been managing in their apartment the past few days with the corpses of Shana’s two children (Dominique’s siblings), Shana’s sister (Dominique’s aunt) and Shana’s twin nieces (Dominique’s cousins). They were all found inside a bedroom and only after neighbors called the cops because nobody had seen them for days. Someone must have smelled them, no?
Police have yet to release the modus operandi.
3. Mu! Who Knew?*
*The judges will also accept “Athing Is A Thing”
This is Athing Mu of Trenton, N.J., and you’re going to be hearing more about her. Last weekend Mu, 16, set the American record (time above) for the 600 meters indoors. Granted, it’s not the world’s most popular event, but this wasn’t a high school mark. It was an overall mark. And Mu, who chooses not to run for her high school in order that she can concentrate on training with the Trenton Track Club and coach Al Jennings, is still just a high school teen.
McLaughlin will be a superstar in Tokyo in two summers…
We’d call Mu the most precociously talented female New Jersey track star in years, but you may recall that just three years earlier Sydney McLaughlin of Dunellen, N.J., became the youngest American Olympian in 40 years when, at age 16, she qualified for the Rio Olympics in the 400 Hurdles (McLaughlin won the NCAAs in that event as a freshman last spring for Kentucky). She’s the true Syd The Kid.
4. The Oregon Rail*
*The judges will also accept “Train In Vain,” “All Are Bored” and “Lost: The Choo-Choo Version”
An Amtrak train heading from Seattle to Los Angeles struck a tree (Did it veer wildly off course, we wonder?) about 45 miles southeast of Eugene, Oregon, early Sunday night. The 183 passengers aboard, all fine, have been stranded on the choo-choo ever since.
Amtrak officials chose to keep the passengers on the train since electricity is out in the area. If you don’t have a sleeper car, here’s hoping you’ve made friends with someone who does.
Question: Knowing the outcome in advance, would you rather be stranded on this choo-choo or a passenger on Sully’s ill-fated (but ultimately safe) LaGuardia to Hudson River flight?
Los Angeles Lakers: Just one play to demonstrate why so many of us will never consider LeBron “The GOAT” (and we’re right). Opts not to cover his man against the Grizzlies, then when the dude buries the three, King James looks around as if it’s someone else’s fault. We’ve all played with this dude in pick-up games, haven’t we?
So the Lakers lose tonight to the Grizzlies, two nights after losing to the Pelicans without Anthony Davis. You think LeBron is going to tell his teammates to play with “more urgency” like he did after last game 🤔🤔pic.twitter.com/jAGpwTGdCZ
We neglected to include Olivia Colman‘s speech in yesterday’s Oscar wrap, but there’s so much to love here: use of the term “snog,” a fart noise, an apology to Glenn Close, telling her kids “well done” if they are not watching (“this won’t happen again”) and even teasing her husband that he’s going to cry. If you missed it the first time.
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About Spike Lee‘s speech: Like everyone else at the Oscars, he never mentioned the president by name or even by office. Here is what he said:
“Before the world tonight, I give praise to our ancestors who have built this country into what it is today along with the genocide of its native people. We all connect with our ancestors. We will have love and wisdom regained, we will regain our humanity. It will be a powerful moment. The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let’s all mobilize. Let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing! You know I had to get that in there.”
So naturally Donald Trump took this personally.
Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!
We have yet to see Green Book, but we have to think Peter Farrelly taking the stage after it was announced as Best Picture and saying more than once, “We couldn’t have done this without Viggo (Mortensen)” was precisely the type of quote that exemplifies why so many people are upset that it won. It’s a racism film about black people for and by white people. Or at least that’s the criticism.
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Finally, how did we go a day before someone made this Wet, Hot American Summerconnection?
Some songs defy their era. They are timeless. When Tracy Chapman‘s eponymous debut album was released in April of 1988, no one was making music that sounded anywhere near close to this. New Wave was choking out its last breaths while Hair Metal was at its zenith. Hip-hop was just beginning to flirt with being mainstream.
And then there was Chapman, who was straight out of the Joni Mitchell-Carole King school of epic female songwriters. This in fact, is the highest-rated song on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time that was both written and performed by a female artist (we think Misses Mitchell and King may want to appeal that ruling).
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Annie Hall
Netflix
Woody Allen’s career-peak comedy deservedly won Best Picture in 1977 (sorry, Star Wars fans) and no true comedy has won since—though Terms of Endearment, Forrest Gump and Shakespeare In Love both had plenty of lighter moments. It’s brilliant, creative, witty and one of the top five films ever to capture the essence of New York City at the time it was made (we’d also put Do The Right Thing and Mean Streets in there). La di da, la di da, la la.
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