Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Click. The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops near the center spot. Big as a water tower but light on his feet, with a diamond ring on a pudgy finger, the fat man moves around the table. For 31 consecutive hours, with an almost incredible repertoire of masse shots, bank shots, gather shots, and combinations, with just enough English and the right amount of draw, he has been defending his reputation as the best there is. He chalks up and shoots again. Click. The 15 ball slams into the corner...
...relatively small part-in Robert Rossen's movie The Hustler-but no one who has seen that fat man will forget him. A man of understated power, Minnesota Fats is played, curiously enough, by Jackie Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...
...house in Peekskill were to float away on the little stream it straddles, Jackie Gleason would still have a way to stay solvent. Since the age of 13, he has had something to fall back on. As Paul Newman says at the fadeout of The Hustler: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool...
...left his father's wholesale grocery business to open a soap factory with his brother. With intensive advertising and merchandising that was ahead of his time, Lever made his Sunlight brand the world's leading soap and gathered together an industrial complex based mainly on products from fats and oils. Meanwhile, in an overlapping segment of the fat and oil industry, two Dutch margarine-making families -the Van den Berghs and Jurgens-battled each other in a Hatfield-McCoy feud for years until, exhausted, they finally merged. Then, indulging in the fine European preference for cartels over competition...
Such moments come too seldom. On the whole, Director Kramer has almost arrogantly exceeded his judicial warrant. He has also crudely mismanaged both actors and camera, and has carelessly permitted several reels of fat to accumulate around the movie's middle. Many moviegoers may find themselves nodding sadly when the defense attorney sadly inquires: "Do you think those people over there have any concept of our problems...