Re: RIP Fast Eddie Felson aka Paul Newman Dead at age 83

On Oct 1, 8:44 pm, lfigueroa <lfigue...@att.net> wrote:
> There's a fine "appreciation" of Newman's work here, from the Washington
> Post:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR200...
>
> In it, it gives some attention to his role as Fast Eddie Felson:
>
> "He acted in the 1962 film version of the play as well as "The
Hustler,"
> the first in a series of roles that explored what he called the
> "corruptibility level" of people. He said that theme spoke to him as a
> socially conscious actor.
>
> As Fast Eddie Felson, he played a soulless and self-centered rebel who
> competes against the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). For the
> role, Mr. Newman took lessons from the pool superstar Willie Mosconi but
> apparently had not learned well enough.
>
> On the set, Gleason hustled him in a real pool game. "I beat him three
> straight games in pool for a buck each," Mr. Newman said. "And then we
> played for $200, and he beat me easy."
>
> And this, from the NYTimes:
>
> "The roles improved, as did the performances, and suddenly he didn’t
> seem to be trying as hard. He’s silky smooth as a pool shark named Fast
> Eddie in Robert Rossen’s 1961 high-key drama “The Hustler,” in whic
h
> Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott each take turns
> stealing scenes. At first Mr. Newman seems outclassed by his co-stars —
> the film asks the actor, a nibbler rather than an outright thief, to do
> too much big acting. But he’s still awfully good. He seduces and repels
> by turn, pulling you in so you can watch him peel Fast Eddie’s defenses
> like layers of dead skin. It’s a wonder there was anything left by the
> time he revived the character 25 years later in “The Color of Money.”
>
>  From the LATimes:
>
> 'The Hustler'
>
> Newman may have won his best actor Oscar for playing pool hustler "Fast
> Eddie" Felson in "The Color of Money," the 1986 sequel to this 1961
> classic, but he really should have won the Academy Award for his
> exhilarating, audacious turn as the young pool shark in this
> uncompromising drama based on Walter Tevis' novel, co-adapted and
> directed by Robert Rossen. Newman's scenes with his girlfriend, the
> alcoholic Sarah ( Piper Laurie), and the ultimate pool hustler Minnesota
> Fats ( Jackie Gleason) are remarkable in their power and simplicity.
>
>  From the WindyCityTrib:
>
> "Throughout his career, his golden-boy looks played off a sense of
> something more reckless lurking underneath. "He always had this very
> insinuating sexuality about him," said Barbara Scharres, programming
> director at Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center. Referring to Newman's
> standout performance as self-destructive pool shark Fast Eddie Felson in
> "The Hustler" (1961), she added: "There's something that's
attractive
> and sleazy and dangerous all at the same time. He was such a marginal
> guy in that film. He's attractive, and at the same time you want to
> smack him."
>
> Lou Figueroa
> hey, so I read a lot
> of newspapers :-)
>
>
>
> JakartaDean wrote:
> > Ron Shepard wrote:
> >> In the news coverage for this, they show clips from several of his
> >> popular movies such as Butch Cassidy and The Sting and Cool Hand
> >> Luke.  But they are also including scenes from The Hustler and The
> >> Color of Money.  He won an oscar for the latter, so perhaps that is
> >> understandable, but The Hustler has not been a popular movie over the
> >> past 40 years like some of these other movies have been, yet there he
> >> is, a young Paul Newman holding a pool cue or leaning over a pool tabl
e.
>
> >> $.02 -Ron Shepard
> > Makes me want to watch them both again, if I can find the DVDs.- Hide q
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Fast Eddy was imperalist pig, he paid no taxes, in russia, he would
have been shot, or sent to gulag.
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