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Playing poker professionally was once strictly the domain of fictional riverboat types like Bret Maverick or grizzled, cigar- chomping tough guys like Doc Holliday.

This was one of the first shows I mailed promotion kits to affiliates when I was a mailboy at ABC.

From the smoky recesses of the backroom poker table to the untamed canyons and prairies of the Wild West, Bret Maverick dodges one hazard after another in pursuit of a lucrative championship poker game.

Fundraiser for Telluride Young Life TELLURIDE - " Richard Turner says he believes in being honest.

No, this isn't a blog about Sarah Palin and cylindrical, metal packages for storing cigars.

No, this isn't a blog about Sarah Palin and cylindrical, metal packages for storing cigars.

There's a little alley down near the Haywood Park hotel, and every time I walk past it, I have a little flashback.

Dear Ken: I've been a fan of James Garner from "Maverick" to "The Rockford Files." How many other TV series did he make and what were his best movies? Garner, 81, born James Baumgarner in Norman, Okla., also starred in the TV series "Nichols," "Bret Maverick," "First Monday" and "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter." Among the Korean War ...

IN LAST week's Bugle we featured a picture that showed seven Warner Brothers TV cowboys from the late '50s/early '60s, and just for a bit of fun asked the question, can you name the seven gunslinging actors and what shows they appeared in? Hopefully, like Mr N. Stanley of Pensnett, Ron Southall-Owen of Bilston, and Mr I. Hackett of Rowley Regis, ...

Director Michael Bay ensured Megan Fox, left,A would have a long and scantily-clad life in the hearts and sordid imaginations of Junk Food T-shirt wearing dorks from coast to coast when he cast her as Mikeaela opposite LaBeouf's Sam in "Transformers." DreamWorks A A More on - Star Trek' Getty Images file Shatner is the one and only Captain Kirk ...

It's often said that there are no do-overs in life. Thank goodness Hollywood executives live in their own cocoon where the rules that the rest of us follow don't apply.