Word: hustler
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...George C. Scott is an exception, a heavy who has achieved star status. In all media, his acting has earned soaring critical acclaim. He was, for example, the superbly cynical gambler in Hollywood's The Hustler. He was the ice-eyed police lieutenant who stalked Sir Laurence Olivier in TV's The Power and the Glory...
Married. Piper Laurie, 30, a cupcake in Hollywood confections until she walked out on a long-term Universal-International contract to search for more "challenging" roles (The Hustler); and Joseph Morgenstern, 29, New York Herald Tribune drama reporter, who met her on an interview; both for the first time; in Long Beach, Calif...
...Hustler. A morality play in a poolroom, brilliantly directed by Robert Rossen, vigorously played by Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason...
...know who the hell I'm playin', but he sure does all right under the name he's usin'," said Jackie Gleason-who had been hustled by Willie Mosconi, the world's pocket-billiard champion (and, later on, technical adviser to The Hustler...
...HUSTLER. Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...