When the phone ban started, Averill Park bought a ping pong table. It is now so beloved that players said they would choose it over ending the phone ban.

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

They introduce a new “game” called Sting Pong - basically taking turns getting hit with ping-pong balls. But it’s not really a game… it’s a setup, and the prank is already in motion. After the chaos, ...

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

Timothée Chalamet enjoys a spanking. The Oscar-nominated actor, 30, refused a butt double and willingly got spanked by his “Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary in a critical scene in the A24 film.

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

Scott Gordon admitted his feelings evolved on the much-anticipated movie “Marty Supreme.” Gordon, 65, a longtime competitive table tennis player who lives in Carmichael, consulted on the Josh ...

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 ...

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 ...