Minnesota Fats 1971 Live Stream
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Very nice film. Especially liked a fairly young Jack Colavita playing straight pool. There is not a lot of video of Jack, one of the classic 14.1 players.
HUH??? Very nice film?????
Tape, video, production. Take your pick.
No, the 'very nice' part. Looks like the 'Blair Witch Project' but with pool cues. What a waste of a cupla hundred at most. Not even the semi-nostalgic pool scenes could save this dog. Hi-lite of the movie was the rolling of the credits.
Yeah but the part about Fats stealing the broad was realistic..
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Im guessing you don't care about seeing older players such as Colavita, where there's almost no video these days. Even though the production quality isn't modern, it was worth it for that.
Yes, that's Jack Colavita, great straight pool player from New Jersey. He was a machinist for his day job.
About the only other video that I know of that features Jack playing is the 1989 straight pool tournament held in Chicago. He played Ray Martin.
It took a few tries to make it through the movie. It's pretty bad as movies go. I was also amazed at how dingey everything looked. I was brought up in North Baton Rouge and I think every place they went was familiar, especially Greenway. I remembered it as fairly nice back then. I don't think they used any movie lighting.
The last time I went in Greenway I had been gone a few decades and it didn't look like a table cloth had been changed since the last time I was there. Three guys drinking coffee and talking to the counterman, otherwise the place was empty. These guys weren't going to spend five bucks between them, not even a donut with their coffee.
I asked how much to practice awhile just for old times sake. "$14.00 an hour." That would have been three times their total take if anyone was actually paying for the coffee. I turned around and walked out.
I remember setting up on that table by the counter and the first offers to play being for $30-$50 a game. Buddy Hall came down pretty regularly and Keith made at least a few trips through there. Parica homesteaded a front table by the door so he could have first shot at any action player for a month or two. Pro tournaments brought in the best.
Hard to believe this movie was made in Greenway's heyday. It looks a lot more like decades later when Greenway was dying a long slow death.
I did at least get a chuckle out of the hair and clothes. They were as bad as I remembered!
Hu
The last time I went in Greenway I had been gone a few decades and it didn't look like a table cloth had been changed since the last time I was there. Three guys drinking coffee and talking to the counterman, otherwise the place was empty. These guys weren't going to spend five bucks between them, not even a donut with their coffee.
I asked how much to practice awhile just for old times sake. "$14.00 an hour." That would have been three times their total take if anyone was actually paying for the coffee. I turned around and walked out.
I remember setting up on that table by the counter and the first offers to play being for $30-$50 a game. Buddy Hall came down pretty regularly and Keith made at least a few trips through there. Parica homesteaded a front table by the door so he could have first shot at any action player for a month or two. Pro tournaments brought in the best.
Hard to believe this movie was made in Greenway's heyday. It looks a lot more like decades later when Greenway was dying a long slow death.
I did at least get a chuckle out of the hair and clothes. They were as bad as I remembered!
Hu