Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong took the stage at Port Chester, N.Y.’s Capitol Theatre over the weekend for a very special two-night holiday program dubbed “The Festival of Melting Lights.” On the final ...

Sweaty and self-confident, Timothée Chalamet swings a table tennis paddle like a madman in “Marty Supreme,” an unconventionally masterful sports flick that remarkably pulls off a reverse underdog ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

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. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...

Life Ping! How Jews turned the table on the game Howard Jacobson calls chess in shorts Next week sees the the release of the film Marty Supreme inspired by a world-famous Jewish ping pong player. We ...

One day, Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet can be found in São Paulo, breaking out in full dance to Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat (Soulja Boy).” Another day, he’s visiting current WWE Champion Cody ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dubbed “The Needle” for his thin build, Marty Reisman was an award-winning table tennis player known for ...

The love affair between Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Colorado was instant. “From the first song we played,” vocalist-guitarist Greg “Scrambled Greg” Ormont shares. “We did not know what to expect ...

Following every dizzying spin of Chalamet’s table tennis hustler, Josh Safdie’s whip-crack comedy serves sensational shots – and a smart return by Gwyneth Paltrow This new film from Josh Safdie has ...