A hotel manager was circling the Polo Lounge, surveying the stately dining room, when he suddenly did a double take. I thought I saw you come in," he said. "Mind if I sit -- just briefly?" Stephen Boggs, the director of guest relations at the Beverly Hills Hotel, slid into the booth where Bloom was having breakfast. The two had met in the early 2000s, when she began hosting underground poker games for the entertainment industry elite in the hotel's private bungalows. She'd returned to the venue last month to talk about a new Aaron Sorkin movie based on her life, "Molly's Game," which follows her journey into the secretive world of high-stakes poker -- one that ultimately led to her arrest by the FBI in 2013. Bloom says that the celebrities who frequented her games -- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Todd Phillips -- have never reached out to her following her brush with the feds. But Boggs, at least, seemed ready and willing to welcome her back into the Hollywood fray. After chatting with her for a few moments, he offered her his business card and urged her to follow up with him. "It's so great to see you," he gushed. "You look terrific, and congratulations on everything.

In the new Syfy series "Incorporated," it is the year 2074 and global warming has had its way with the world, 90% of which is controlled by multinational corporations who war over "dwindling resources." Some would say that this is already the case. Premiering Wednesday, it is a sometimes clever, just as often clichéd mix of dystopian tropes, with performances ranging from nicely modulated to almost over the top, and some sly design that, along with some twisted PSAs, also accounts for most of the story's humor. It is quite watchable and nothing special. Science fiction, it has often been noted, is all about the present and, besides the full-bore climate disasters we're rehearsing now, there are references to Canada building a fence to keep the Americans out, a declaration that "the system was rigged" (meaning the insurance business, but still), and midterm elections to which only 22% of voters turn out.