Word: tuxedoed
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...with himself. Jersey Red Breit was there, too, as nervous as ever, with five cigarettes lit at once. Minnesota Fats, not in the same class, had not been invited. He probably wouldn't have come anyway, it being black-tie and all. "Dressing a pool player in a tuxedo," Fats once said, "is like putting whipped cream...
Racing is not a sport with Julius Rudel. It is practically a way of life. Briefcase clutched in one hand, a tuxedo in a plastic bag slung over his arm for use later that night, he hurried out of his apartment on Manhattan's upper West Side one recent midday and jumped into a worn 1966 Chevy. A morning full of conferences had left him just ten minutes to get to a dress rehearsal of a new production of Carmen at Lincoln Center, 20 blocks south. "If we take the proper turns, we'll make all the lights...
...early evening's cool, the uninvited maneuvered for a position near the glass, while under bright lights inside, the horsy rich gossiped, complained about the location of their seats, shifted their jewels and studied their catalogues. From high on a rostrum center stage, a young man in a tuxedo surveyed the all-white crowd, then once again rapped his gavel and begged for silence. When it came at last, he reverentially intoned the pedigree of the skittish filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second...
...playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot in Baton Rouge, La. Too well known for hustling, Fats now plays exhibition games-with no frills. After watching dinner-jacketed players at a New York tournament, he once observed that "dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream...
...mother, cousin, aunts and uncles were all outside now. Sid Lotenberg, in shiny tuxedo, and my mother, in a long dress, danced around the pool. He sang an old Rodgers and Hart song, "Isn't it Romantic?," as they performed what seemed a fine imitatation of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...