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Re: Kevin Spacey's character in "21" According to a Boston Globe article on whether the book "Bringing Down the House" should be called nonfiction, Mezrich says the role of Micky Rosa as played by Kevin Spacey was mainly fictitious yet partially a composite of three people: Bill Kaplan, the...

Re: Kaplan, Muse of Film "21," Uses Blackjack Theory at Work Great post. Kaplan's views on assessing and managing risk, winning business strategies, and overbetting errors made by VCs and Internet start-ups take the lessons of running a blackjack team to a whole new level.

The movie captured the essence of a team of players beating the casinos at their own game. Other than that, the stories were almost 100% made up. There was no MIT professor who started and ran the team or who stole from his players. In fact, the founder and leader of the team was a Harvard...