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Is 'Marty Supreme' Real? The Wild True Story Behind Chalamet's Ping Pong Hustler Role

The Capital Journal 25 Dec 2025
A24's 'Marty Supreme' stars Timothée Chalamet, but is it real? Discover the wild true story of Marty Reisman, the ping pong hustler who inspired the film ....
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Is ‘Marty Supreme’ Based on a Real Person? Here’s the True Story of Ping Pong ...

Variety 25 Dec 2025
Safdie and his crew faithfully recreated the world of 1950s ping pong players in ...
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Timoth�e Chalamet's character Marty Mauser in 'Marty Supreme' is based on a real hustling ping-pong ...

Business Insider 25 Dec 2025
Here's what to know about the real Marty Supreme.Marty Reisman was a ping-pong champion player dubbed 'the James Bond of table tennis' ... Marty Reisman hitting the ping pong with the handle of his paddle.
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Legacy of "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" highlighted at annual celebration event in Los Angeles

People Daily 25 Dec 2025
"Ping-Pong Diplomacy.". Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles Guo Shaochun described "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" over five decades ago as "an iconic moment in the China-U.S.
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Timothy Chalamet Had An ‘A–’ Double For Marty Supreme. Why He Let Himself Get Spanked With A Ping Pong Paddle Anyway

Cinema Blend 25 Dec 2025
Without giving too much away plot-wise, there is a part in the film in which Chalamet’s Marty Mauser submits to having his bare rear end spanked with a ping pong paddle in order to get ...
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Meet the high-strung Ping-Pong hustler, ‘Marty The Needle,’ who inspired ‘Marty Supreme’

New York Post 25 Dec 2025
From a young age, he plied his hustling craft at a joint called Lawrence’s Ping Pong Parlor — a former Midtown speakeasy once owned by JackLegs” Diamond, with Prohibition-era bullet holes scarrin the walls.
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‘Marty Supreme’ Review: Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Devil

Hindustan Times 25 Dec 2025
Certain to be rated the greatest 2 1/2-hour ping-pong movie ever, “Marty Supreme” takes a tired formula—the underdog sports story—only to pull it apart and ... Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Devil.
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Nine Greek Table Tennis Players Make World Rankings

Greek City Times 25 Dec 2025
In the men’s standings, Panagiotis Gionis is the highest-ranked ....
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Gunmen's phone pinged near region known for Islamic extremism, police say

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 24 Dec 2025
Mobile phone data suggests the Bondi Beach gunmen may have travelled near a region in the Philippines where Islamic State-aligned militants could still be operating, a police source has told the ABC ... .
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The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’

New York Times 24 Dec 2025
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right ... .
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Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0

The Register 24 Dec 2025
Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area. Waymo says it is rolling out updates to its US fleet to counter future disruption caused by power outages like the one that hit San Francisco last week ... .
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This Sacramento ping-pong consultant worked on Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’

Sacramento Bee 24 Dec 2025
Marty Supreme,” which opens Christmas Eve in theaters nationwide, could be one of 2025’s top films. A Sac State professor consulted on it ....
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‘Marty Supreme’ Review: Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Devil

Wall Street Journal 24 Dec 2025
The actor gives a staggering performance as a fast-talking, fast-playing, utterly obnoxious table-tennis whiz in Josh Safdie’s impressively unconventional drama ... .
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Ping-pong diplomacy opened up China-US relations

China Daily 24 Dec 2025
Looking back, Sweeris said the broader significance of ping-pong diplomacy lay in how it "opened up the door for communication" ... More than five decades later, the legacy of ping-pong diplomacy continues to be commemorated and discussed.
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'Marty Supreme' review: Timothée Chalamet gives career-best performance as driven Ping-Pong player

Newsday 24 Dec 2025
PLOT In the 1950s, an eccentric Ping-Pong player hopes to dominate a still-young sport ... Marty’s purpose is Ping-Pong, which in 1952 is considered little more than a pastime and certainly not a sport.
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