Hollywood and pool

[Black-Balled]

Kelly Bundy by far looked the best to me playing pool.

I concur...

 

[Johnnyt]

I'd be careful Mr. Helfert ... Mr. Sorvino may put out a mafia hit on your ass - Soprano style!

"Don't worry about it," Jay. There is no Mafia:wink: Johnnyt

 

[Black-Balled]

Back in the 80s, they used to say that Robert Blake of "Beretta" fame was a fairly good player.

Blake?!
from: http://defamer.com/hollywood/media/robert-blake-off-to-do-some-cowboying-036360.php

Hey, Robert Blake, you've just been acquitted of murdering your wife! So what are you gonna do? Disneyland? "...I'm going to go out and do a little cowboying," said Blake. But what's cowboying, you ask? Blake explained it to the world shortly after his acquittal:

BLAKE: I'm going to get a job. I'm broke. Right now, I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird. What did Johnny Carson say? You're innocent until proven broke. Well, by the time Gerry and these troops got here, it was the bottom of the barrel. I was a rich man. I'm broke now. I got to go to work.
But before that, I'm going to go out and do a little cowboying. Do you know what that is? No, you don't know what that is.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

BLAKE: Cowboying is when you get in a motor home or a van or something like that, and you just let the air blow in your hair, and you wind up in some little bar in Arizona someplace, and you shoot one-handed nine ball with some 90-year-old Portuguese woman that beats the hell out of you.

 

[SJDinPHX]

Walter Alston was a strong 14.1 player, capable of running a 100. I thought about mentioning him, but didn't consider him the "Hollywood" type. Believe it or not Leo Durocher was a good hustler around New York when he was a young man. Good enough to consider pool over baseball for a while. He was making more money. Ultimately he made the right choice!

Dean Chance and Belinsky got taken pretty good when they tried to hustle pool at Tropicana Bowl in the 60's. Bo was a low speed shortstop. Kenny Anderson and Richie Florence beat him out of a telephone number with Chance staking him.

Joe may have a little more game than Manny (it's close), but Manny can play for the cheese. He likes to bet HIGH when he plays! High as in $10,000 sets.

Used to party with Bo and Dean when they came to Houston in the off-season. They were pretty naive about the inner workings of the pool world, but but they learned REAL fast. Bo used to like to bet on me (or stake me.) Dean loved to hi-roll, until he got caught in a few bad traps. He finally got in one he could'nt escape from. Too bad.
They were a lot of fun in their younger day's. Mamie Van Doren, ( Bo's girl friend at the time) was not too shabby to look at either The Le cue was a great room in it's hayday. I'll bet Jay will throw in a few highlights from there, in his "upcoming" book.

Dick

PS Good sub-title for your book Jay...."And They Said I'd NEVER Finish It !

 

[Cuaba]

This summer at Hollywood Billiards I ran into Dash Mihok at the front counter. He was waiting to get a table.

I had worked on the set of White Boys (he was one of the stars) so we talked about that. I never did get to see him play.

Very nice humble guy.