Cisero Murphy's biography...

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As the title suggested, it looks like there's about to be a biography published about the BCA Hall of Famer Cisero Murphy.

$50 seems a bit steep but I bet it's a great read...


On another note, if they ever made this into a movie, who do you think would play a good Murphy?

My vote goes to Donald Glover (the new Lando Calrissian)!
 
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Should be a great read. And hopefully a better movie I will order my copy as soon as possible.
 
I saw him on TV but I really don't know much about him

I think the guy who played Geoge Jefferson might do a good job
or Eddie Murphy

We need a good pool movie
 
CallShotCowboy said:
As the title suggested, it looks like there about to be a biography published about the BCA Hall of Famer Cisero Murphy.

$50 seems a bit steep but I bet it's a great read...


On another note, if they ever made this into a movie, who do you think would play a good Murphy?

My vote goes to Donald Glover (the new Lando Calrissian)!
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Or John Boyega :thumbup:
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Rob “Forty” Hart

If they ever made this into a movie, who do you think would play a good Murphy?
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My vote goes to Rob “Forty” Hart he is a great player and a very smooth cat. He would come into Waldo’s in Daytona many years ago when I worked there looking for some action or just to hit some balls while he was in town. Super nice guy and I never knew he was Kevin Hart’s older brother. He plays that game called "Each" pretty sporty
 

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The nephew (maybe son) of Cisero Murphy used to post here often. I believe that his screen name was Mr. Lucky, always looked forward to reading his posts.
 
Idris Elba is a very fine actor with some style.
 

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To protect their investment, hollywood would insist on casting bankable actor like Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, or Denzel Washington.
 
Mr. Murphy played a match in Greensboro N. C. against Luther Lassiter in 1969 or 1970. Race to 1500 in straight pool over 5 days and ten sessions. As I recall Mr Murphy ran 284 balls with the exception of two breakouts where the cue ball was kissed in a pocket for a foul. Back then
the balls did not come apart with just a touch of the rack. Break-out shots were much more explosive, thus increasing the probability of something going wrong. Mr Lassiter won the match.
 
There was a 2006 thread about who and what pool movie would you like to see. This was my post then.


"Cicero Murphy. A gritty movie done in black and white of his early years up to his later years. He could not compete in world events until 1965 because of his race...he won a world title on his first attempt... Plenty of story for a movie with some universal appeal as a story of triumph. Other old time greats would be in the movie and if the cast was well chosen, they could be justly done with a good script while not being the main characters. The movie would not be a civil rights preachy movie, but would simply tell his story, what he went through, and how he fit in with the other legends at that time."

Elba is not a bad choice at all...
 
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