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...Catherine's picks up the next fall when Jill, feeling out of it at Sarah Lawrence, visits him in Miami. Yes, she loses her virginity and suddenly sees the Sheik--who gets his name from the condoms, he proudly informs her--as the not terribly smart, two-bit hustler that he is. Etcetera...
...fashion, like jeans," says Juan Carlos, a young Bogotá professional. "At our parties now, everyone just sucks smoke and gets selfabsorbed. The parties are spooky: no laughing, just puffing." Alberto Laverde, 27, is a smooth, smiling Bogotá hustler who dispenses cocaine at the local Wimpy hamburger bar. "Get into it," he encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American...
...stuff. It justifies the faith people had in me," said Mel Fisher, founder of Treasure Salvors. It was an uncharacteristic understatement from the usually hyperbolic Fisher, 60, an incorrigible optimist who for years was regarded along the Florida Keys as at best a dreamer and at worst an unscrupulous hustler. Twenty years ago, Fisher and his indomitable wife Dolores, 46, began their search for the legendary lost galleons. Following a trail discovered by Historian Eugene Lyon in 1970 at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, Fisher found the wrecks lying in shallow water 30 miles west...
...Hustler, made in 1961 by Director Robert Rossen, was among the first of a handful of Newman films that have become American folklore. Newman recalls wandering into a disco a few years ago and shooting a few games of pool. A kid walked up to him and said, "Mr. Newman, I've seen The Hustler four times, and watching you shoot pool is one of the biggest disappointments of my life." The kid had just seen Davy Crockett shoot himself in the foot...
...Hustler (1961): I had occasion to see some segments of it recently. Again, very conscious of working too hard, which comes partly from lack of faith in your own talent and lack of faith that just doing it in itself is all the audience requires...