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However, nearly everything about Cincinnati Kid is reminiscent of The Hustler. Director Jewison can put his cards on the table, let his camera cut suspensefully to the players' intent faces, but a pool shark sinking a tricky shot into a side pocket undoubtedly offers more range. Kid also has a less compelling subplot. Away from the table, McQueen gambles on a blonde (Tuesday Weld) and on the integrity of his dealer pal, Karl Maiden. Pressure comes from a conventionally vicious Southern gentleman (Rip Torn), whose pleasures include a Negro mistress, a pistol range adjacent to his parlor, and fixed...
Born. To Paul Newman, 40, ingratiating stage and cinema heel (The Hustler, Hud), and Joanne Woodward, 35, Georgia-bred actress, his frequent costar, who won an Oscar in 1957 for her smoldering performance in The Three Faces of Eve: their third child, third daughter (he has one son, two other daughters by a previous marriage); by natural childbirth, which left mother able to enjoy two peanut-butter sandwiches half an hour after delivery; in Manhattan...
...searing process called "conking." He worked briefly as a waiter at Small's Paradise, still one of Harlem's top nightspots. But an honest dollar was not for Malcolm Little. He was caught pimping on the side and fired. He thereupon turned himself into a full-time hustler whose specialties were fixing up white men with Negro whores and Negro men with white whores. He peddled marijuana, became a cocaine addict and, to satisfy his $20-a-day craving, took to burglary. In 1946 he wound up with a ten-year prison sentence in Boston...
Gene Kinasewich, Harvard's most consistent hustler, scored what proved to be the winning goal at 8:27 of the third period when Bill Fryer's pass found him all alone in front of the Yale net. Bruce Warner pulled the Elis to within one goal at 12:57, just after a Harvard penalty expired, as George Semler dug the puck out to him from the corner. Yale threatened only once thereafter...
This book has its faults, but none that couldn't be straightened out by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The story is to poker what The Hustler was to pool...