Morning Update: The year in Carney

“They said, ‘We’re looking for a real asshole, and you’re it,’” Kevin O’ Leary told TMZ about when Josh Safdie and his co-writer Ronald Bronstein approached him to play a key supporting role in their squalid, 1950s picaresque Marty Supreme. The film concerns a callow ping-pong prodigy (Timothée Chalamet) trying to scrounge together the money to play in a high-profile tournament in Tokyo. O’Leary plays a nasty high-roller debating whether or not to act as the kid’s benefactor. Set a thief to cast a thief, as they say, and hire an asshole to play an asshole; sometimes, the simplest...