Saratoga Bill

He bet cautiously at the track, but elsewhere he was drawn to those with the odds stacked against them

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Zachary Sklar is a journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He co-wrote the films JFK (with Oliver Stone) and The Feast of the Goat (with Luis Llosa and Augusto Cabada).

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