Known for:	Face/Off, The Notebook, Life
Birth name:	Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes
Birthday:	21 May 1959, New York, New York, USA
Height:	6' 5½" (1.97 m)

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The now-infamous Texas Hold 'Em celebrity poker games that have triggered a flurry of lawsuits has a new twist -- according to a famous player/director, the lawsuits are bogus because the game is legal.

Nick Cassavetes, who directed "The Notebook" and "Alpha Dog," has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against him to take back his winnings, on grounds California law does not consider Texas Hold 'Em to be illegal gambling.

According to the docs, the game is not played as a banking or percentage game.  For example, blackjack is a banking game because you play against the house.  In Texas Hold 'Em, you play against the other players.

According to California law, the penal code only prohibits banking or percentage games.  The law singles out illegal games, including roulette, blackjack, 21, hokey-pokey, rondo, tan, fan-tan, 7 1/2, lansquenet and rouge et noir ... but Texas Hold 'Em is not mentioned.

Cassavetes is being sued by the bankruptcy trustees of Brad Ruderman -- a convicted ponzi scheme criminal who lost a lot of money in the games, to people like Cassavetes and Tobey Maguire.  Leo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and others also played.






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Last week I took a break from the theater while I was on vacation, so I didn't catch anything new. However I did watch the Nick Cassavetes crime drama "Alpha Dog."



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An attorney representing Nick Cassavetes is set to fight allegations the actor/moviemaker took money from a convicted conman in an unlicensed poker game. It emerged on Wednesday that several sta...



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Filed under: Nick Cassavetes, Tobey Maguire, Celebrity Justice "Hangover 2" star Nick Cassavetes says he ain't returning a single cent of the $73,000 he allegedly won from a convicted Ponzi-schemer during several celebrity-filled poker matches.




Cassavetes' lawyer is firing back against allegations the actor "improperly received funds" during the high-stakes poker games involving crooked hedge fund manager Bradley Ruderman -- who's now serving time in prison.

According to his lawyer, Nick will fight any efforts to recover the $73k from him -- because he feels he won it fair and square.

As we previously reported, several celebrities including Tobey Maguire and Paris Hilton's sex tape partner Rick Salomon are being sued for the same reason -- as trustees in Ruderman's bankruptcy case scramble to recover the con man's money ... to repay his victim's.



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Filed under: John Travolta, Movies, Nick Cassavetes, Deadline, Sponsored By Madea's Big Happy Family John Travolta is looking for someone to call the shots on his new Gotti biopic because director Nick Cassavetes is no longer on board. According to sources close to the production of " Gotti: Three Generations " ... Executive Producer Marc Fiore…
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What keeps a family together? Nick Cassavetes, the director of The Notebook and John Q, again demonstrates his sure hand with tales of deep human emotion in the inspiring film


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The guy who directed "The Notebook" is finally experiencing the kind of sadness that he made us endure -- the kind of sadness that only a couple million dollars could cure. Nick Cassavetes -- who's also a prominent movie writer -- has just filed a ...

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Happy Birthday to rapper Notorious B.I.G. (1972; d. 1997), "House" star Lisa Edelstein (1967), actor/director Nick Cassavetes (1959), "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" star Judge Reinhold (1957),


Happy Birthday to rapper Notorious B.I.G. (1972; d. 1997), "House" star Lisa Edelstein (1967), actor/director Nick Cassavetes (1959), "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" star Judge Reinhold (1957),


Happy Birthday to rapper Notorious B.I.G. (1972; d. 1997), "House" star Lisa Edelstein (1967), actor/director Nick Cassavetes (1959), "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" actor Judge Reinhold (1957),

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