Positively Fifth Street

Positively Fifth Street

"Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker" is a memoir by New York-based author James McManus set during the 2000 World Series of Poker.

McManus was sent to Las Vegas to cover the trial of Rick Tabish and Sandy Murphy for the murder of Binion's Horseshoe casino executive Ted Binion on assignment from Harper's Magazine. The trial coincided with the 2000 WSOP, which McManus entered. He won a satellite tournament into the Main Event, the annual $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em tourney, and reached the final table, placing fifth. The book is a two-track memoir of his coverage of the trial interspersed with and finally subsumed by the poker tournament.

The book's title was inspired by Bob Dylan's 1965 single Positively 4th Street.

"Positively Fifth Street" is being made into a movie by Christine Vachon's Killer Films with Greene Street Productions. John Ridley wrote the screenplay and is expected to direct the film.

References

[http://www.fsgbooks.com/fsg/positivelyfifthstreet.htm Official website] at Farrar, Strous and Giroux

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399505/ "Positively Fifth Street"] at the Internet Movie Database


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