Word: hustlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League looking math teacher and his lover, fashion photographer Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, swishy interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler given to Harold for the night as a present) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor and grass has locked all those present into a violent orgy of sadistic-masochistic emotional destruction; no one may leave until he touches the bottom of his soul and accepts what he finds there...
...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...