Get the latest gossip

Brat Summer Is Over. California Split Summer Is Here.

Here are 16 ways Robert Altman’s gambling classic can help you make good choices.

Given his stuffy-seeming job in publishing, we can assume Bill has plenty of tweed jackets stashed away somewhere, but he’s so thoroughly locked into his increasingly high-stakes gambling bender that he only shows off a couple variations of the above getup. Once there, Bill and Charlie rub shaving cream on each other’s bruised bodies — a home remedy that may not be medically supported, but that at least adds a fun element to one of the requisite low points of a California Split Summer. After finally hitting it big and making a bundle of cash, Bill is left to confront the reality that there was no “special feeling” behind his hot streak — no secret vein of the universe that he can tap into to exist in a perpetual state of victory.

Get the Android app