Word: hustler
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...order to avoid paying reparations, Dewitt quickly mingled among a crowd of film seekers, attentively viewing The Color Of Money (Beacon Hill). Dewitt had seen this movie before and at second look decided he didn't like it. The Color Of Money updates the story of pool-hustler Fast Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman). After years of retirement, Felsen decides to re-enter the billiard biz by tutoring a young hustler named Vince (Tom Cruise), teaching him to love currency more than the game itself...
Enter Norman Roy Grutman, a New York City lawyer who, incredibly, had represented Penthouse magazine against Falwell when the evangelist sued to prevent distribution of an issue containing an interview with him. In an additional twist, Grutman had also once been Falwell's lawyer in a libel case against Hustler. Now working for Bakker, Grutman declared that an unnamed evangelist had mounted an unfriendly "takeover" bid for PTL and threatened that if this preacher did not back off, "we're going to be compelled to show that there is smellier laundry in his hamper than the laundry he thought...
Those uncomplicated ingredients have at last brought them commercial success, and neither Merchant nor Ivory seems eager to tamper with the recipe. Merchant, 50, is a hustler who grew up in Bombay, India's film capital. Coming to the U.S. in 1958, he studied business at New York University and made a short, which won an Academy Award nomination. Ivory, 58, is a shy Oregonian who attended film school at the University of Southern California and made a short about Indian miniature paintings. Merchant liked it; they talked, became partners and headed for India...
Hard to see why. The film is no winner but no atrocity either. We are in Shanghai, 1938. Warlords and China dolls are bumping into faded carbon copies of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. That must make Penn the Bogart figure -- a hustler and self-styled "Glow-in-the-Dark-Tie King" who helps a prim but spunky missionary (yep, Madonna) find 1,000 lbs. of opium to help soothe the wounds of Chinese soldiers. "Guns cause pain," she says fervently. "Opium eases pain...
...Most of the Philadelphia-area investors were allegedly lured into the scheme by Blay-Miezah's partner Ellis, whom Castille describes as "a good talker, a hustler." They were assured of a return of as much as 50 to 1 on their investments. Attorney Barry Ginsberg and a group of friends ended up dumping a total of $1.5 million into the trust, and according to investigators, an elderly widow invested $70,000, which amounted to her life savings. Most investors did, however, realize that they were getting into a rather risky venture. "Don't feel sorry for these people," says...