Resources for writers/artists
These make me happy and inspire me. I hope you'll enjoy them, too.
The opening scene of "The Sting" is on Youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HueOtaUJKqk
The movie script (not the script as shot. An early version.)
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/thesting.html
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Sting,-The.html
The Big Con by David Maurer.
Oh, this book is *wonderful*. And, even better, it's nonfiction. (Except in the places where the con men were pulling his leg, which, being con men, you have to kinda expect. But also, being con men, they are good enough about it that you can't tell what's true and what isn't.) The lingo, the games, the way the grifters operated... it's all here. And it's charming.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Con-Story-Confidence-Man/dp/0385495382/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3564874-0603004?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193711774&sr=1-2
This is not quite fanfic, yet it fills my fannish heart with glee:
World Wide Web Fights presents WWWF GRUDGE MATCH:
Maverick vs Henry Gondorff vs Sundance Kid vs the Gambler vs Coach
http://www.grudge-match.com/History/poker.shtml
The Sting Drinking game
The highly inebriating version
(search or scroll down)
http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/set/7200/other-pt.htm
Thamiris' Sexed-Up Grammar Guide.
http://www.slashaholics.org/thamiris/slash/Grammar.html
(Hercules, but what can you do.)
Other stories about Grifters:
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man (the book)
by Guy Owen
http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Flim-Flam-Man-Guy-Owen/dp/1928556051/ref=sr_1_1/002-9799655-4952010?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194103241&sr=1-1
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) (the movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061678/
The opening scene of "The Sting" is on Youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HueOtaUJKqk
The movie script (not the script as shot. An early version.)
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/thesting.html
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Sting,-The.html
The Big Con by David Maurer.
Oh, this book is *wonderful*. And, even better, it's nonfiction. (Except in the places where the con men were pulling his leg, which, being con men, you have to kinda expect. But also, being con men, they are good enough about it that you can't tell what's true and what isn't.) The lingo, the games, the way the grifters operated... it's all here. And it's charming.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Con-Story-Confidence-Man/dp/0385495382/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3564874-0603004?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193711774&sr=1-2
This is not quite fanfic, yet it fills my fannish heart with glee:
World Wide Web Fights presents WWWF GRUDGE MATCH:
Maverick vs Henry Gondorff vs Sundance Kid vs the Gambler vs Coach
http://www.grudge-match.com/History/poker.shtml
The Sting Drinking game
The highly inebriating version
(search or scroll down)
http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/set/7200/other-pt.htm
Thamiris' Sexed-Up Grammar Guide.
http://www.slashaholics.org/thamiris/slash/Grammar.html
(Hercules, but what can you do.)
Other stories about Grifters:
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man (the book)
by Guy Owen
http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Flim-Flam-Man-Guy-Owen/dp/1928556051/ref=sr_1_1/002-9799655-4952010?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194103241&sr=1-1
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) (the movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061678/