Word: hustler
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...temperature immediately rises any time Ashong walks on stage. His Shooter is a deejay with a wandering eye, deeply conflicted by the shadow of his father, a legendary pool hustler who has committed suicide, and the specter of his wife, whose devotion to Shooter is rivalled only by her passion for shopping...
...book, Kardashian called him last October and told him that because Schiller had known Simpson fleetingly a quarter-century ago, he might be called as a material witness to his first marriage, and so Schiller should meet Simpson again. A photographer, Emmy-winning TV producer and all-around hustler, Schiller has made a career of packaging tragedy as entertainment--he bagged Gary Gilmore for Norman Mailer's Pulitzer-prizewinning The Executioner's Song, among other fancy legwork...
...more so. He's the key to making this film memorable, I know critics are tripping over themselves in praising his performance, so allow me to stumble, too. Mr. Newman is truly captivating. The substance and honesty he brings to the role are reminiscent of his performances in "The Hustler" and "Cool Hand Luke". If ever he has deserved an Academy Award, it is for "Nobody's Fool...
Imagine Cool Hand Luke, the Hustler or even Butch Cassidy somehow making it all the way to his sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
...quest began with HOLLIS. I ran a title search for Hustler: nothing. Juggs: "Sex": ordered but not received at Widener and Schlesinger. Playgirl: nothing. Honcho: the search produced "Honcho Goshi Yakuchu," a book by Eino Kano. But that didn't help...