Word: poolrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polonsky's talents were marked and sharpened by the rhetoric of Depression politics. The result is that, on occasion, his script blows its otherwise immaculate cool-as when a poolroom tough delivers one of those drunken "I'll-tell-you-what-democracy-is" speeches. Although Redford and Clark are both excellent in their roles, Katharine Ross offers a major challenge to credibility as Willie's Indian girl, called Lola in the film. She looks little like an Indian and is obviously too refined to act like...
...Welcome. At 31, Bowen could well afford to subsidize a whole chain of shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...
...joining a full range of recreational facilities with gambling may be the winning combination. He is planning to build a $150 million addition to the Sands Hotel that will include rooms for chess and table tennis, an ice-skating rink, a movie theater, a vast bowling alley and a poolroom. Hughes recently paid an estimated $17 million for the Strip's 524-room Landmark Hotel, giving him six hotels (and their casinos) worth $80 million. That moved him into second place after William Harrah in the high-stakes Monopoly game for gambling houses now going on in Nevada...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The Hustler (1961), featuring Paul Newman. Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie in the poolroom's sweat and smoke...
Burning Hot. In a student poolroom hangout on the fringe of the congested urban campus of the University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Business Administration Anthony Athos, a onetime auto-factory worker with "the lowest mechanical aptitude General Motors ever tested," peers over a pitcher of beer and explains that a teacher must have "that divine tension. You've got to be concerned?but not dedicated, which sounds as if you're doing something you think you ought to do. For me?Christ...