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NASHVILLE: Minnesota Fats, the flamboyant hustler who could shoot pool with either hand and once boasted that "nobody in the world can beat me if I play for money" died in Nashville. Born Rudolf Wanderone Jr. in New York City, Fats spent most of his life as a hustler in pool halls all across the country, playing competitively until the late 1980's. Known earlier in his career as New York Fats, he changed his name to Minnesota after Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats character in the 1960 movie "The Hustler." Fats was a consummate showman who stuffed $100 bills...
Sharon Stone's presence on screen at times outweighs even de Niro's. She is perfectly suited to play the local hustler, Ginger, who has everyone in her back pocket, and never passes up the opportunity to make a buck. Her only weakness is a completely unexplained affection for her pimp, played by James Woods...
...entirely too tolerant of his lifelong buddy Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a cheerful psychopath who is more trouble than he's worth. Sam also falls into distracting obsession with Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), and that's not good for him or for business either. She's a hustler whose excessive interest in furs and jewels would warn off a more worldly man. As would the fact that she leaves their wedding banquet to make a tearful call to the sleazy lover (James Woods) whom she never fully abandons...
With the pornographic quality of the work, some people have said that the "The Boston School," now at the Institute for "Contemporary Art (ICA), is just "A 'gay hustler' show." It can look that way, but such a dismissal does not do the exhibition justice...
...long for the wit and subtlety of Sharon Stone's crotch-flashing in "Basic Instinct." Berkley's version of the cliched femme fatale is all pants and snarls, without a hint of irony. As for the male characters, they remain locked in even more unsavory cliches: pockmarked pimp, hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold...