Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT A DREAM CAST: ROGER REES IN HIS first New York theater role since he won the Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative...
...Vanderbilt Hustler which ran the firstad, has not yet received the second according toEditor-in-chief Laura F. Creekmore. "But the wegot [the first ad] three months after Duke gotit," she noted...
Ruby meets its primary aim--to humanize the man behind the historical figure of Jack Ruby--remarkably well. As a Jewish hustler trying to move up in the Sicilian hierarchy, Ruby is the quintessential outsider, and Danny Aiello movingly portrays him as an heroic figure seeking truth, justice and the American way. Sherilyn Fenn, as Candy Cane, also boosts the movie's emotional impact...
...also continues to insist that he needs at least three hours of screen time to trace the dramatic transformations of Malcolm's life: from the street hustler who sold drugs and women into the charismatic spokesman for the Black Muslims who preached black self-determination and antiwhite rhetoric and, finally, into the orthodox Muslim who made a hajj to Mecca and embraced universal equality. The studio would prefer a brisk compression of the story. Twice in the past month, Lee and studio executives have faced off in shouting matches in which Lee cited Oliver Stone...
Director Robert Rossen brilliantly depicts the dingy atmosphere of an American pool hall, and his four stars, each of whom garnered Academy Award Nominations, rise to the occasion. The Hustler outshines the 1986 sequel The Color of Money, also featuring Newman, in both plot and direction...