GOOD NEWS AND BAD FOR GEORGE CLOONEY

Add another feather to George Clooney’s cap. The hunky Lexington native is No. 6 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of Entertainers of the Year. The write-up, in the Dec. 30 issue, says that with his movies Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana, “Clooney redefined himself as a man of both passion and principle rather than merely a playboy who likes to stick up casinos with his rind-a-ding-ding pals.”

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Sat, December 31st, 2005

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Do you know that:

  • Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
  • In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City.
  • The major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
  • The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.