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...problem keeping his head out of the sand. When lobbying, manipulating and advertising for an Oscar reached fever pitch back in the early '60s, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy withdrawing his name from the nominations. His portrait of Bert Gordon, the ulcerous, vulpine gambler in The Hustler, is one of the modern screen's great essays in villainy, but not surprisingly, Scott failed to receive the Oscar...
Craps, of course, was an early accomplishment. He often won; he sometimes used loaded dice. He gained a reputation as a "mechanic," or dealer of stacked decks in card games. His skill with golf clubs opened up a sideline as a links hustler. As a bookie, he cultivated the country-club set around Detroit and Miami Beach...
LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A compendium on the subject, with stories of various lengths and guest stars in each. Flip Wilson in "Love and the Hustler," Robert Cummings and Jane Wyatt in "Love and the Pill," Michael Callan, Penny Fuller and Yvonne Craig in "Love and a Couple of Couples." Premiere...
Nothing overt ever transpires between them; every conversation is an exchange of slurs. They become inseparable chiefly because they share a common loss: both could sue life for alienation of affections. Joe Buck is alternately a male hustler and a gigolo; if he knows a lot about sex, he is, like Ratso, ignorant of sympathy. Neither realizes that the only place he has ever found it is in his companion. Yet by the time the two head for Florida, they have become aspects of the same person. As the thief coughs his way to death aboard a bus, the cowboy...
Hoffman and his co-film maker Jonathan Gordon focus blurrily on a corpulent little insurance hustler from Long Island named Murray King. In the cinéma vérité manner, they track him with camera and sound equipment from his office through some endless conferences to a business vacation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, all the while mocking their subject and his legion of clients, chippies and hangers-on. Despite the documentary pretense, it turns out that many of the scenes were staged expressly for the film. Only diehard viewers who survive to the last few frames...