For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected ...

Marty Reisman was nicknamed "The Needle" for his slender physique. He dressed well and put on a show. The real ping pong champion — and hustler — who inspired 'Marty Supreme' In the 1940s and '50s, ...

Named North, the robot has been designed to showcase that autonomous machines can now match human dexterity. Interestingly, ...

Josh Safdie's film is no biopic, but it's heavily indebted to the life and talents of ping-pong champ Marty Reisman.

Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for “Marty Supreme,” now in theaters. Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” is galvanized by an invigorating performance by Timothée Chalamet as the cocky young ...

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

Timothée Chalamet seems to have been channeling his Marty Supreme character ever since his SAG Award acceptance speech in February (“I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” he said at the time) and ...

Today, table tennis is a popular global sport played by amateurs and professionals alike — a game that can be a casual pastime or an intense, fast-paced exchange. But in the 1940s and 1950s, the game ...

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The actor Timothée Chalamet has become synonymous with cuddly, adorable and androgynously irresistible, even while more or less thumbing his shapely nose at any movie-star formula. Does he play ...