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Brian De Palma met Bob Hoskins over a drink in Los Angeles to discuss playing Al Capone if De Palma's first choice Robert De Niro were to pass on the role. Since De Niro didn't say yes, Hoskins told De Palma he would do it if he were available. When De Niro finally took the role, De Palma sent Hoskins a thank you note, and the studio paid Hoskins, who had a "pay or play" deal, $200,000. Hoskins called De Palma and asked if there were any more movies the director didn't want him to be in.
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@shack: Try cribbage with nine cards for two players; eight for three. Keep six, and six cards total go to the crib. Play two laps of the board, counting the end hole only once. The highest scoring hand is 72: 4-4-5-5-5-6-6.
With having to count points for so many cards, I suspect there will be a lot of "muggins" going on.
 
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What is "The Eddy Murphy Rule"?
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".....and I ain't gonna have no money to buy my son the G.I. Joe with the kung-fu grip!......."

"It was the Dukes!, It was the Dukes!........"



Answer: The plot for " Trading Places" film was part of the inspiration for new regulations on the financial markets: from wiki:

"Almost 30 years after its release, the plot for the movie was part of the inspiration for new regulations on the financial markets. On March 3, 2010 Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Gary Gensler stated, in testimony he gave to the 111th Congress, "We have recommended banning using misappropriated government information to trade in the commodity markets. In the movie Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy, the Duke brothers intended to profit from trades in frozen concentrated orange juice futures contracts using an illicitly obtained and not yet public Department of Agriculture orange crop report.

The "Eddie Murphy Rule", as it came to be known, later came into effect as Section 136 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, under Section 746, which dealt with insider trading."
 
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