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For this week’s episode, we’re… dealing (sorry) a late 90s favorite that was meant to be a post-Oscar star vehicle and wound up a box office disappointment. After the Oscar and box office success of Good Will Hunting<\/em>, the next stop on Matt Damon’s ascent to megastardom was to be Rounders<\/em>, an NYC-set drama about high-stakes underground poker. Damon starred as a law student who once gave up the game but quit at the insistence of his girlfriend (Gretchen Mol), only to get pulled back in by his no-good childhood friend (Edward Norton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about the film’s status as a cult favorite of sorts and the film’s palatable brand of machismo. We also discuss Norton’s Oscar nomination in the same year for American History X<\/em>, Mol’s Vanity Fair It Girl cover, and John Malkovich giving goofy Russian accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics also include Celebrity Poker Showdown, John Turturro in a bathhouse, and (eep) Famke Janssen on Nip\/Tuck<\/em>.<\/p>\n