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...what are they playing? Why, Newman is once again Fast Eddie Felson (aka the Hustler in Robert Rossen's pungently atmospheric 1961 classic), now resting on his legendary status among pool players; Cruise is Vincent, a wacko pretender to Eddie's former throne. Ultimately, one knows, art should imitate the players' situation: these men should cross cues to determine sovereignty over pool's dingy domain...
None of these processes occur in isolation. "Everything is failing together," says Dr. David Felson, a rheumatologist at Boston University. "That includes bone damage, the responses to that, muscle weakness, inflammation of the lining of the joint and ligament disruption." It follows that to be successful, any treatment will have to deal with all these factors...
...noted in the brief obituary you published on pool shark "Fast Eddie" Parker [MILESTONES, Feb. 19], I disagree with Parker's claim that author Walter Tevis, my late husband, used Parker as the model for his character Fast Eddie Felson in his novel The Hustler (1959). More than a few pool sharks have claimed to have been the inspiration for Felson in the years since the book was published and the movie released. My husband invented his characters. As Walter said, he gave the character of pool player Felson attributes fairly common to any pool player: "Some charm, some nerve...
Ping-pong: Pool has Fast Eddie Felson; ping-pong has Forrest Gump...
...quick fixes. But they -- like many inmates -- argue that the prison system would function more effectively if justice were served more swiftly, sentences imposed more reliably and space allocated more rationally. The lag of months, sometimes years, between the crime and the punishment is counterproductive. Says Marcus Felson, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California: "((An electric)) plug that shocks you a year later or once in a thousand times isn't going to deter...