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paulie_walnuts
05-29-2003, 07:29 AM
If you haven't seen it yet there is a new show on FX called "Lucky" that is really quite good. I mean, it's not high art or anything, but it's clever, funny, and at times even poignant.

The lead character is a "professional gambler" who generally wins, but sometimes loses big time, and often
is involved in scams...usually with a sort of Robinhood aspect to it.

It's full of con men, femme fatales, casino workers, dreamers, down-and-outers, whales and penny ante gamblers, and the local Las Vegas color.

Here is a line from the show delivered by a con man, but it could just as well have come from a hooker to her client.

"Thanks! Its been a business doing pleasure with you!"
h. von bingen
05-29-2003, 10:26 AM
it's with that guy john ? from my big fat greek wedding, boy did he make the right call. (i haven't seen it yet.)
paulie_walnuts
05-29-2003, 10:56 AM
Originally posted by h. von bingen
it's with that guy john ? from my big fat greek wedding, boy did he make the right call. (i haven't seen it yet.)

That's the one!

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/73228p-67769c.html
h. von bingen
05-29-2003, 11:11 AM
i love that guy. i liked him in that show about alaska with rob what's his name.
pjorourke
05-29-2003, 11:20 AM
Originally posted by h. von bingen
i love that guy. i liked him in that show about alaska with rob what's his name.

Northern Exposure with Rob Morrow
Wwanderer
06-02-2003, 08:10 AM
Originally posted by paulie_walnuts
"Thanks! Its been a business doing pleasure with you!"

Isn't that, or something very close to it, a line from "The Best Little Whore House in Texas"?

-Ww
Cloud Nine
06-02-2003, 08:30 AM
paulie,

I suspect we saw different TV shows. You likely saw the one about professional gamblers and various other gender and class "issues". I saw the one about the power of aesthetic transcendence.
occasionalhobbyist
06-02-2003, 08:33 AM
The John in question is John Corbett.

Love(d?) him as Aidan in Sex and the City.
paulie_walnuts
06-02-2003, 05:37 PM
Originally posted by Wwanderer
Isn't that, or something very close to it, a line from "The Best Little Whore House in Texas"?

-Ww

That could be...never saw TBLWHIT...

But if that's true, and it's a reference, then that makes it all the more quirky.
paulie_walnuts
06-02-2003, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by Cloud Nine
paulie,

I suspect we saw different TV shows. You likely saw the one about professional gamblers and various other gender and class "issues". I saw the one about the power of aesthetic transcendence.

I know your just trying to break my balls, but I will say this...the title sequence is really nice!