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More fake non-fiction - Bringing Down the House is a book that we actually own. Mark read it and really liked it; I got halfway through it and got distracted, so I can't really tell you if it's good reading or not. I found this article interesting in light of the minor uproar over the movie "21", in which a white lead was cast and a couple of Asian tokens were added in to support the cast. There's even a group on Facebook asking people to boycott the movie.
It makes me wonder how much of this claim was actually true, that's been cited all over the place to support the contention that Hollywood was being intentionally biased in their casting for the movie: "Second, according to the non-fiction book, the team’s Asian ethnicities were central to the plot and their ability to gamble huge amounts of money without notice."
If a lot of the stuff in the book never happened and was only added to make it "more readable", then what's to stop him from lying about everything else?
More fake non-fiction - Bringing Down the House is a book that we actually own. Mark read it and really liked it; I got halfway through it and got distracted, so I can't really tell you if it's good reading or not. I found this article interesting in light of the minor uproar over the movie "21", in which a white lead was cast and a couple of Asian tokens were added in to support the cast. There's even a group on Facebook asking people to boycott the movie.
It makes me wonder how much of this claim was actually true, that's been cited all over the place to support the contention that Hollywood was being intentionally biased in their casting for the movie: "Second, according to the non-fiction book, the team’s Asian ethnicities were central to the plot and their ability to gamble huge amounts of money without notice."
If a lot of the stuff in the book never happened and was only added to make it "more readable", then what's to stop him from lying about everything else?
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