Word: hustler
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...Newman may just survive the rigors of his new movie Slap Shot. "I'm a hockey player," says Newman, 51, describing his role. "I'm somewhat over the hill, a little desperate and looking for a way to make things work." Newman, who played pool in The Hustler, tootled a trombone in Paris Blues and boxed in Somebody Up There Likes Me, insists that hockey is like "all the other things" he has learned to do for films. "I'm slightly crippled," he confesses. "But I'm standing...
Many in the spectator-sex industry believe only a few temporary excesses are keeping the porn controversy alive. They expect porn to crest and ebb and a largely benign boredom to set in. Says the newly mellowed Hugh Hefner (who denounces his fast-rising competitors, Penthouse and Hustler, as "gynecological gazettes"): "We are very much in a stage of transition sexually, and there is bound to be some exploitation...
...recent months Oui and Hustler have run pictorial spreads on bondage, and February's Penthouse featured 13 pages of S-M pictures, including one of a female sadist stabbing a spiked heel into the eye of a bound woman. "Bondage is where the action is," a Playboy editor admits, "but we've been slow to pick...
...Says Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford, a former Governor: "I don't know of any Governors or former Governors whom Carter has contacted for support. That might indicate how much support he has among his former colleagues." Adds a onetime Northern Governor: "It was obvious he was a hustler. His style was just a little different: soft voice, soft sell. But there was a political road map all over his face. Jimmy would take advantage of any single opportunity to further himself. He is absolutely driven. But unlike a lot of politicians, he knows who he is and where he wants...
...Oswald gives an excellent performance; his harrowing breakdown is the one scene where emotion transcends Ibsen's carefully orchestrated social commentaries. Sidney Atwood as Engstrand and Helena Snow as the ambitious Regina handle modernization less effectively by dipping into stereotype. Atwood's carpenter is too much the fast-talking hustler and Snow's best lines are weakened by smirking golddigger mannerisms...