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It tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson, who challenges legendary pool player "Minnesota Fats". The film, which was based on the 1959 book of the same name by Walter Tevis, stars Paul Newman as Fast Eddie, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, Piper Laurie as Sarah, George C. Scott as Bert, and Myron McCormick as Charlie.
The film stars Paul Newman reprising his role as "Fast Eddie" Felson, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film also stars Tom Cruise playing a pool hustler, and features Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as the girlfriend of Cruise's character. The plot follows the trio as they hustle pool halls and make their way to a nine-ball ...
"Fast Eddie" Parker (c. 1932, Springfield, Missouri – February 2, 2001, Brownsville, Texas) was an American pool player, claimed by many to have been the inspiration for the character "Fast Eddie" Felson in the 1959 Walter Tevis novel The Hustler. [1] [2] [3] In both the 1961 film adaptation and the 1986 sequel, Felson was played by Paul Newman.
It tells the story of a young pool hustler, Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson, who challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats. [1] The novel was well-received by critics, and was adapted into a 1961 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, and Piper Laurie as Sarah.
For all of us big Paul Newman fans, it came as thrilling news last week that Knopf will be publishing the Hollywood icon’s unfinished memoir next fall, largely based on his own oral history ...
But it would be the sequel to Hustler featuring the return of "Fast Eddie" Felson, The Color of Money (1986), that would finally see Paul Newman voted the Best Actor Oscar winner at the 1987 awards ceremony. Over the next two decades, Newman received one more honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Paul Walker died in 2013, but Vin Diesel and the rest of the Fast and the Furious crew have continued to pay tribute to him in The Fast Saga. 1428052511_mcdsaha_ec188_h_the fast the furious 300 1 ...
Fast Eddie Felson, protagonist of the novel The Hustler, the film The Hustler and its sequel, The Color of Money; Fast Eddie Costigan, pianist and bouncer in Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" stories such as Callahan's Crosstime Saloon; Fast Eddys, an Australian fast food chain; Adobe Photoshop version 2.0, released in June 1991 and codenamed Fast ...