'There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time,' he told CNN Showbiz Today, 'and he had these glasses. Norton agreed, saying the folks who frequent the clubs were not. 'You know, I mean, it's, you know, 12-hour days of kind of sitting.' 'It's not quite as sexy as it sounds,' he said on CNN Showbiz Today. In Real Life: Damon and Norton spent a couple of months touring the New York underground poker scene and Damon, at least, said he wasn't tempted by the lifestyle. In Reel Life: Playing underground poker seems. We know people - Joel Bagels, Freddie the Watch. Though we've been here a dozen times, his face remains blank. 'We press a button, the door buzzes open, and a face dominated by shiny dentures appears at the top of the stairs. They describe going to a club in Manhattan: In Real Life: Screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman wrote about their research in the Sept. In Reel Life: Before entering one of the underground clubs, Mike and Worm either have to be recognized through a surveillance camera or be given a very solid introduction.

Read his thoughts on the movie, and the game. The Sports Guy's been a fan of 'Rounders' since way back, when only an elite group paid attention to poker.

He accepts and declares that the game for him is not poker but the hustle, and he loves it.' Worm is completely comfortable with who he is in a deep, conscious, philosophic sense. 'You always need to find a line in on a character, and Bugs Bunny is always scheming, always two steps ahead of a beating and always laughing.

' like Bugs dressed as Keith Richards,' Norton told Mal Vincent of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In Real Life: Some have likened Worm to Ratso Rizzo, the great character Dustin Hoffman played in 'Midnight Cowboy.' While Norton admires Hoffman and knows the Rizzo character well, that wasn't what he had in mind. In Reel Life: Worm (Edward Norton) is a risk-taker, in contrast to Mike, whose instinct is to grind it out in the true 'rounder' fashion. In Real Life: 'City Law School' is actually Rutgers, which you can figure out from a typical movie 'tell.' Check out the door in the last scene: There's a 'No Smoking' sign that says, in small type at the bottom, 'Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.' In Reel Life: Mike (Matt Damon) and his girlfriend, Joe (Gretchen Mol), go to 'City Law School' in New York. For all of you poker players out there, 'Rounders' is a must-see.Ī realistic depiction of life as a full-time poker hustler player? You decide.

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