Both film and table tennis depended upon the invention of celluloid – which plastic ping pong balls are made from.

Any movie that is based on even a grain of truth always captures my interest. Couple that with the world of championship ping pong in the 1950s and Marty Supreme is a movie that we just had to see.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Marty Supreme," Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a fictionalized version of Marty Reisman, a real life table tennis star ...

In "Marty Supreme," Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a fictionalized version of Marty Reisman, a real life table tennis star whose heyday was the 1940s and '50s. "Marty Supreme" co-writer and ...

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 ...