40 years ago today….
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As a movie, it fell significantly short of 'Hustler', but at least it was a good pool movie!
It wasn't very good, but it started the second renaissance of pool.
It would sure cost less to make than the Days of Thunder sequel he is doing.
dquarasr
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Days of Blunder as far as I am concerned.
i concur. but will admit that cruise prancing around and twirling his cue like an idiot increased public interest in pool
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P.S. I can’t tell you how many times I realize a movie is 40+ years old, or even worse, a well-recorded music selection played on a high-resolving 2-channel system, looking it up, and, rediscovering, $h!+, the damned favorite cut WAS RECORDED 50+ YEARS AGO!! Wasn’t that just, like 15 years ago?
Youth: enjoy it while you are young. Before you realize it your GRANDDAUGHTER is a freshman at university.
Youth: enjoy it while you are young. Before you realize it your GRANDDAUGHTER is a freshman at university.
What he said, in Spades!
JasonATX
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Maybe, but I figured the same about the second Top Gun and it was pretty good.
The movie was great for the billiard industry. I was working in a pool hall at the time. It was impossible to obtain cues, chalk, and anything else pool related. Everything was going to Japan. The movie was a big hit there. Bowling alleys were converted to pool halls. After a few years the fad died out and things returned to normal.
And I was 34 living in Palo Alto playing pool in a bar on California Ave called Antonio’s Nut House.
Owner Tony Mantooth had an automated gorilla in a cage. You put in a quarter and the gorilla would scoop out a basket of peanuts and hand it to you through the food door of the cage.
Fun place to hang out with a quarter bar box!
Owner Tony Mantooth had an automated gorilla in a cage. You put in a quarter and the gorilla would scoop out a basket of peanuts and hand it to you through the food door of the cage.
Fun place to hang out with a quarter bar box!
dquarasr
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Tru dat.
RIP to the nuthouse, but the gorilla lives
Around Town: Caged gorilla from Antonio's Nut House rescued from auction gallery
In the latest Around Town column, the story of how Palo Alto nearly lost the beloved gorilla that welcomed visitors at Antonio's Nut House and the Uplift Local program's downtown return.
www.paloaltoonline.com
middleofnowhere
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I don't know, Maximilian Schell won for Judgment at Nuremberg. Newman's performance was nothing special in The Hustler. He was much better in future projects.
He really didn't deserve it for COM. William Hurt for Children of a Lesser God was robbed. Newman's was a make up for The Verdict that unfortunately was the same year as Ben Kingsley in Gandhi.
Love it or hate it, Keith just received another SAG (Screen Actors Guild) check last week for $177. One never knows how much the periodic checks will be. They come two or three times a year. Some are a low as $12 and others have been as high as $320.
A couple years ago, our 80-year-old neighbor had a wellness check. Curious neighbors came outside, wondering if she was okay when they saw the firetrucks and police cars. And she is. They were all chatting, when our closest neighbor friend let the police officer know about Keith in "The Color of Money." The police officer said he was going to watch that movie that night.
(Many younger folk today have never heard of the movie, much less Paul Newman and Tom Cruise starring in it.)
Keith and the police officer started talking pool, and without missing a beat, Keith asked, "Would you like an autographed photo?" Keith came inside and asked me for the Sharpie pen and a photo. That's what the police officer is holding in his hand. It really made Keith feel great that the police officer took an interest in his pool journey. Meanwhile, I'm inside and missed the whole exchange. Neighbor took this photo.
A couple years ago, our 80-year-old neighbor had a wellness check. Curious neighbors came outside, wondering if she was okay when they saw the firetrucks and police cars. And she is. They were all chatting, when our closest neighbor friend let the police officer know about Keith in "The Color of Money." The police officer said he was going to watch that movie that night.
(Many younger folk today have never heard of the movie, much less Paul Newman and Tom Cruise starring in it.)
Keith and the police officer started talking pool, and without missing a beat, Keith asked, "Would you like an autographed photo?" Keith came inside and asked me for the Sharpie pen and a photo. That's what the police officer is holding in his hand. It really made Keith feel great that the police officer took an interest in his pool journey. Meanwhile, I'm inside and missed the whole exchange. Neighbor took this photo.
The movie was filmed in 1985 and hit theaters in 1986. I was working the graveyard shift at Champion’s Billiards in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the first night it came to the big screen, about seven or eight of us formed a convoy and headed on over to the Avalon Theater in DC, a big, old-fashioned movie house, to check out the “pool movie.”
At the time, I had no idea who Keith McCready was. Never heard of him.
We sat way in the back. When some of the pool scenes came on, including the cue-stick waving to the tune of “Werewolves of London,” we were thoroughly entertained, chuckling and giggling. But when Fast Eddie told Vincent to lay down the lemon on Grady Seasons to ensure good odds in Atlantic City, we absolutely lost it, laughing out loud, especially some of the lines, "It's like a nightmare," of course, and "Oh, the impossible dream."
As unrealistic as some of those scenes were, it was a movie about pool, and for that reason alone, us pool nuts enjoyed every minute of it.
And here’s the ironic part: About 20 years later, I met Grady Seasons in the flesh and actually went on the road with him, but that’s a story for another time.
AI-generated from a 2002 photo of Keith and me.
At the time, I had no idea who Keith McCready was. Never heard of him.
We sat way in the back. When some of the pool scenes came on, including the cue-stick waving to the tune of “Werewolves of London,” we were thoroughly entertained, chuckling and giggling. But when Fast Eddie told Vincent to lay down the lemon on Grady Seasons to ensure good odds in Atlantic City, we absolutely lost it, laughing out loud, especially some of the lines, "It's like a nightmare," of course, and "Oh, the impossible dream."
As unrealistic as some of those scenes were, it was a movie about pool, and for that reason alone, us pool nuts enjoyed every minute of it.
And here’s the ironic part: About 20 years later, I met Grady Seasons in the flesh and actually went on the road with him, but that’s a story for another time.
AI-generated from a 2002 photo of Keith and me.
