I know little about Hollywood history.  Yet, I reduced my Hollywood Golden Age ignorance when I read about Hedy Lamarr.   I didn’t know anything about Lamarr… much less her name, yet, I knew her face.  As a teenager, I saw her picture every Friday at the movie theatre.  I remember her face because she reminded me of my mother.  Mesmerized by Lamarr’s photos, my ADD sent me into a hour long Hedy surf.

The more I read, the more I liked.  Lamarr’s quote “ Any girl can be glamorous.  All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”   Ah, show me your wit, I’ll show you my heart. Doesn’t wit usually coexist with a high IQ?  Not sure, but this sexy woman was smart.  Smart goes a long way in my book.

Lamarr co-patented an early form of Frequency-hopping as a military defense that wasn’t used until years later because it was ahead of it’s time.  Although, her invention was used in the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Lamarr’s patent eventually became valuable to modern mobile communications that she was paid an undisclosed amount by Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. approximately 50 years later.

It’s highly unlikely Lamarr ever attended the WSOP, however, she was born on November 9th which also became Inventor’s Day in her honor.  So, next November Nine, remember Hedy Lamarr’s birthday when booting up a laptop.  After all, it was Lamarr’s frequency-hopping plays a role in today’s Wi-Fi networks.

PS – Rachel Weisz is rumored to play Hedy Lamarr in Amy Redford’s upcoming film Face Value.  No idea on the latest with that as I ran out of Google time.

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Despite economic stress, Harrahs isn’t reducing the 2009 WSOP schedule.   Apparently, Jeffrey Pollack or someone at Harrahs couldn’t drive 55 so they have put 57 bracelets up for grabs starting May 27th.  Not too shabby for Phil Ivey should he go crazy prop betting billions and billions of dollars on whether or not he wins a bracelet.  Although, he may want to shake hands after Event 2 since it’s a…. let me take a deep breath before I type this long description… a NL Hold’em 40K buy-in with a one-time commemorative gold bracelet marking the 40th year anniversary of the tournament.

About that economy issue… it’s highly unlikely banks will be lending players money to play poker this year so opening weekend will kick off with a  ”stimulus special 1k buy-in NL Hold’em tournament.”  Hmmm, my birthday weekend should be busy.

The WSOP Main Event will duplicate last years final table delay with a new November Nine.  The final table will resume on November 7 – 10, 2009 with ESPN’s special primetime coverage.  So, now what do we call those last nine players?”  The Nine in 09?  The Nine Behind the Original Nine?  The Nine on the 9th in 09?  That one meant… The 9 players  on the 9th day of November of 2009 (yea, Lance Bradley, I know you understood it the first nine). The WSOP Niners?  The WSOP Niners beat all the whiners? Sorry, my meds wore off. I’m going with The WSOP Niners.  Anyway, let’s just hope The WSOP Niners aren’t minors because that would be bad.  Very bad.

By the way… the WSOP will take place at The Rio.  Look out Sao Paulo Cafe… the Entities are coming.

Registration begins next month.

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