These days, DiCaprio is engaged in an amiable con game of his own -- with the public.
He's a good storyteller because he's a good listener — curious, amiable and game for anything, whether it's a visit with a Nascar champion to an 800-gallon illicit still in Pennsylvania or a strategy session with the defense lawyer in a bootlegging trial in Virginia.
But whatever charms the three actors have (Tatar is amiable, Holdridge is game with the lame jokes and Castellino is appealing and handsome), those are lacking with Carpenter, who barely registers as the stolid Skip.
They cited his knowledge of the game and amiable nature as selling points, while acknowledging that they did not really know why he walked away from a blossoming team.
"I think we got on pretty well together," the general said with a broad smile, adding that the two leaders discussed their golf game over an amiable lunch.
Voluble, amiable and well liked in the game, Gorman earned a reputation for building contending ball clubs out of also-rans.
He signed on as an official in the losing campaign of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, and even there he left few impressions other than as an amiable bachelor with a good tennis game and a famous father.
Both developers are sat in on the gameplay preview, and are thoroughly amiable fellows, enjoying the attention their game's receiving without letting it go to their heads (it looks like beer helps keep their smiles beaming, but to be honest, such is the love for this game that they could be teetotal and feel the buzz just as well).
The program offers bilingual job listings, films, word games, contests & other amiable educational devices.
Fifty years later, it occurred to an amiable U.C.L.A. graduate student named Chris Ferguson to apply game-theory concepts to grand-master poker.
