Rounders Writer to attend STTF-HUC
As per Lacky's request, I will post this as separate STTF-HUC news:
My roommate in college, Jeff Grosso aka Creeper, wrote a screenplay called "The Shell Game." It was a poker movie containing about 50% of the interesting poker related pearls in Rounders. There was even a character named Worm.
Anyways, Creeper took the case to court claiming that Miramax stole the movie from him. It went all the way to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and he won.
It was a landmark case for intellecutal property law and changed the way studios treat screenwriters and their scripts.
The case is being appealed by Miramax now and may end up in the Supreme Court... so Creeper hasn't seen a penny.
You can google Grosso v. Miramax to read about it if you are interested.
So anyways... the guy that really wrote Rounders will be at the Labor Day tournament.
He likes to think that he is single-handedly responsible for the growth of poker. At the WSOP this year, whenever we would walk into the tournament room with a bajillion people playing poker, he would hold his arms out and say "you see this... I did this."
Irieguy
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