Did anyone watch the "Lifetime" movie about Ted Binion this past weekend.
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I watched part of it.
If the story of Binion portryed in the movie is accurate, I am glad I am not wrapped up in a life like his.
The movie showed his life consisting of booze, drugs, gambling, one goldigging girlfriend after another, a disfunctional extended family and troublesome relationships with them, material comforts but no joy or personal contentment in life; and a self awareness that one's life is spinning out of control with your final destination being death at the hands of the goldigging girlfriend you profess to love [even though you suspect/know she is cheating on you on the side with a much boy toy much younger than you]. Seeing him drinking and snortling drugs; and later seeing him dead, on the floor of his home, with his pants off and with drugs around him; and seeing his goldigging girlfriend fake a breakdown after she "finds" his body makes me glad for my much more boring life.
The parts of the movie I saw did not dwell much on the hoard of silver dollars and silver bars Binion had accumulated. Though one scene with him in bed rolling a silver dollar, on the edge, across his goldiggning girlfriend's curves was,.................... interesting. He did not hold the coin by the edge [a numismatic sin] and did not wear gloves while rolling the coin [the coin was between his thumb and forefinger]. I wanted to see the date, mintmark and condition of the silver dollar, but I just could not manage to focus on these details as the coin kept on rolling.
If the story of Binion portryed in the movie is accurate, I am glad I am not wrapped up in a life like his.
The movie showed his life consisting of booze, drugs, gambling, one goldigging girlfriend after another, a disfunctional extended family and troublesome relationships with them, material comforts but no joy or personal contentment in life; and a self awareness that one's life is spinning out of control with your final destination being death at the hands of the goldigging girlfriend you profess to love [even though you suspect/know she is cheating on you on the side with a much boy toy much younger than you]. Seeing him drinking and snortling drugs; and later seeing him dead, on the floor of his home, with his pants off and with drugs around him; and seeing his goldigging girlfriend fake a breakdown after she "finds" his body makes me glad for my much more boring life.
The parts of the movie I saw did not dwell much on the hoard of silver dollars and silver bars Binion had accumulated. Though one scene with him in bed rolling a silver dollar, on the edge, across his goldiggning girlfriend's curves was,.................... interesting. He did not hold the coin by the edge [a numismatic sin] and did not wear gloves while rolling the coin [the coin was between his thumb and forefinger]. I wanted to see the date, mintmark and condition of the silver dollar, but I just could not manage to focus on these details as the coin kept on rolling.
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I have several Binion dollars. The stories behind famous hoards fascinates me!
From what I understand, if you look up the word LOSER in the dictionary, you find a picture of ol' Ted.
<< <i>If I recall correctly the name of the movie was "Sex And Lies In The Desert, The Ted Binion Story". Or maybe shorter, "Sex And Lies, The Ted Binion Story". >>
You forgot the Sin City part.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
<< <i>I wouldn't admit on the message boards to watching the Lifetime Channel--Television for Women(TM).
I watch Frasier repeats on there every night.
<< <i>lifetime - did meridith baxter-berney play Mr. Binion? Can't watch that channel so I obviously missed that one. >>
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