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...Edward Ridley Finch Cox. Princeton '68: his mother traces her family line back to one of the drafters of the Decla-ration of Independence; his father a senior partner of the Manhattan law firm of Cox, Treanor, and Shaughnessy. Or Fast Eddie (of. "The Hustler"), a sarcastic nickname given to him by fellow students at the Trinity School, a private New York prep school, because he didn't swing like Paul Newman...
Hollywood never learns. Or anyway, it forgets easily. Ten years ago, George C. Scott received his second nomination for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler. He sent a wire to the Academy and quietly declined. He still remains unimpressed by Oscars. Nominated once again, as Best Actor for his part in Patton, Scott once again dispatched a telegram...
John Larga failed, again, because of something in his urine. A Czech, who had been in the country for two years and hoped to become a citizen, was rejected because he didn't speak the language well enough. Larry Stillman got his psychiatric deferment. A guy named Louie, a hustler of drugs and women, was judged immoral for the Army. Someone else got out on high blood pressure by squeezing the side of the chair with his free hand during the test...
Boss player. An upwardly mobile hustler who never uses his black skin as an excuse for failure...
...impact of Actor Jackie Gleason on Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr. goes on and on. When Gleason played a pool shark called Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), Wanderone, then known as New York Fats, was moved to sue. But the cash value of the movie's publicity made him change his mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot...