Newman Calls it Quits

Color of money has to be one of the best movies ever made. There is just so many real moments a pool player can really appreciate from it. I'm getting goosebumps thinking about Gradys line and how it relates to an actual pool player....but it's so real...almost like someone who had been through the process wrote it just for the few others. Nah...it's just coincidence. ;)
 
C.Milian said:
Color of money has to be one of the best movies ever made. There is just so many real moments a pool player can really appreciate from it. I'm getting goosebumps thinking about Gradys line and how it relates to an actual pool player....but it's so real...almost like someone who had been through the process wrote it just for the few others. Nah...it's just coincidence. ;)
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What I find cool about TCOM is that Martin Scorsese hired real pool players for not only speaking parts, but also as stand-ins. When watching the movie, if you look in the background, oftentimes you will see a well-known player.

Here's the players I know of that had either speaking roles or stand-in cameo appearances within the movie: Grady Mathews (as Dud), Howard Vickery (Vincent's opponent), Jimmy Mataya, Louie Roberts, Steve Mizerak (as himself), Mark Jarvis (Guy at Janelle's), Keith McCready (Grady Seasons), Ewa Mataya (technical director uncredited), and Mike Sigel (technical director).

Most know that Mike Sigel was the technical director of TCOM, but there were some fireworks on the set between some players that ended up in a positive result.

I wonder if this 1986 Life Magazine is worth any money today to pool memorabilia collectors! :grin:
 

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And the person who received no credit for being the technical adviser was?








????????????????????????????????????????? Willie Munson!
He asked me to say, "if you keep using my name, send $100 dollar bills, no checks, to Romine's, http://romineshighpockets.com/."
If I'm lying I'm flying and I ain't got no freaking feathers.
 
Fenwick said:
And the person who received no credit for being the technical adviser was?








????????????????????????????????????????? Willie Munson!
He asked me to say, "if you keep using my name, send $100 dollar bills, no checks, to Romine's, http://romineshighpockets.com/."
If I'm lying I'm flying and I ain't got no freaking feathers.
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I did not know that about Willie Munson.

There was a wee bit of tension on the set of TCOM during the filming. At one point, Keith did not want Mike Sigel on the set when he was hitting balls. Maybe it was professional rivalry or jealousy, though I'm not sure. I only have privilege of hearing one version of what happened. :o

Keith did spent several days with Tom Cruise hitting balls on the offs, just the two of them. He was showing Tom a few shots and strokes, et cetera, just trying to get him to look like a pool player, I guess, with his stance.

Paul Newman and Keith became pretty good buddies on the set. In fact, there's a little gambling tale that occurred with the two of them against someone else, but I'll save that for another time. Paul Newman was very generous and kind to his friends. I'll just leave it at that! :smile:
 
Here's a great Paul Newman tribute: Luck!

It ain't luck, Paul. It's hard work that pays off, IMO! :smile:
 
Here is my piece of Paul Newman,
and no it is not for sale.
 

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Met Newman at the Astoria Studios in Queens in 1976. He was filming Fort Apache the Bronx. I was upstairs working on The Eyewitness with Bill Hurt, James Woods, and a young Morgan Freeman.
He was a gentleman and had the damn bluest eyes I ever did see. It was like looking into the pacific ocean.
This year I went back to the old Astoria studios. It was one of the first movie studios in this country where Chaplin did his stuff.
Shot Men in Black 3 with another giant Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin. Great guys but it was Newman who had this giant charisma about him. They broke the mold went they made him.

Keone
 
Jam, I love Paul Newman movies!

JAM said:
Paul Newman won his first Oscar playing "Fast Eddie" in "The Color of Money," and he is calling it quits in acting: "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," Newman, 82, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."

Newman was brilliant in "The Hustler," and who can forget "Coolhand Luke," which are just a few of many of his great movies during his career.

In recent times, he is very much involved with his philanthropic venture of spaghetti sauces, salad dressings, cookies, popcorn, and other food items, the proceeds of which all go to charity.

Several years ago, I was doing a live phone feed for ABC. They were conducting an interview with Paul Newman for an upcoming TV show, and me, I was just the lowly transcriptionist recording it, to be transcribed immediately for the producers on a same-day turnaround. Keith was sitting close by listening to the interview, and it was then that he told me how Paul Newman did not attend the Academy Awards for TCOM. Interestingly, Newman backed Keith in a pool game during this era, which is an interesting story in itself.

Looks like a remake of "The Hustler" and/or "The Color of Money" will never happen, unless Tom Cruise becomes a mentor for a new up-and-coming pool player and takes him on the road. :D

Of course, a pool movie would help give pool a boost in the States, but I can't see it being about hustling in this day and age since road players are darn near extinct; a rare breed, if you will. What do you think would be a good plot for a pool movie in the year 2007? Should it be about the tournament soldier traveling around the world? I think a movie about Alex Pagulayan's life, as an example, would be an excellent movie, his childhood all the way up to being a world pool champion.

Here's Fast Eddie, played by Paul Newman, in "The Color of Money." He will be missed! :(

JAM
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He was great in all of his movies. I love his cowboy movies! And pool movies. Thanks Jam. Newman is the man!
Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
decent dennis said:
I could be wrong ,but i believe it was "Wipe your nose will you julian", since that was turturro's character's name.
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You know, you just might be correct, and if so, I stand corrected! :p

I know a little bit about the tables used in A.C. at the final scene of TCOM. In fact, Keith showed me where in the Resorts Casino the tournament was filmed. This is where Paul Newman, after he beats Vincent, he runs outside and lets out a celebratory yell out on the boardwalk.

The owner of Champion Billiards in Silver Spring, MD (Richard Allen) used to be the biggest Brunswick dealer on the East Coast, and the movie people called him to get a bid on setting up Brunswicks for the tournament scene. Somebody out-bid Richard, and they ended up with these tables that were not a well-known brand, at least at that time. The name escapes me at the time of this writing. I think, subject to check, the name begins with a "G."
 
yobagua said:
Met Newman at the Astoria Studios in Queens in 1976. He was filming Fort Apache the Bronx. I was upstairs working on The Eyewitness with Bill Hurt, James Woods, and a young Morgan Freeman.
He was a gentleman and had the damn bluest eyes I ever did see. It was like looking into the pacific ocean.
This year I went back to the old Astoria studios. It was one of the first movie studios in this country where Chaplin did his stuff.
Shot Men in Black 3 with another giant Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin. Great guys but it was Newman who had this giant charisma about him. They broke the mold went they made him.

Keone
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Thanks for sharing that cool story about Paul Newman. :smile:

How cool is that! :cool:
 

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Here is Paul with first wife Jackie Witte and their young son Scott in 1955.

Scott tragically died of a drug overdose in 1978. Newman started the Scott Newman Foundation to help others recover from drug addiction.

The actor was also known for his philanthropic work funded by the sale of his Newman's Own products.
 

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