{"id":8097,"date":"2015-02-22T18:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2015-02-22T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:52:24","slug":"fast-eddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/fast-eddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Eddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newman.jpg\" alt=\"newman\" width=\"860\" height=\"889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newman.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newman-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newman-484x500.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><strong>Last night I watched the classic flick, <em>&#8216;The Hustler&#8217;<\/em> starring Paul Newman.<\/strong> This 1961 melodrama about a small-time pool shark featured some high-stakes &#8216;stick&#8217;, a tragic love story and a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lot<\/em><\/span> of smoking. This movie serves as an interesting back\u00a0story\u00a0to Martin Scorcese&#8217;s 1986 follow-up <em>&#8216;The Color of Money&#8217;<\/em> where a much older and wiser Eddie Felson mentors the young\u00a0and talented nine-ball\u00a0show-off, Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise), on how to become a major league pool hustler. Though lambasted as a weak successor to <em>&#8216;The Hustler&#8217;<\/em>, Newman&#8217;s reprisal of the character netted him a Best Actor Oscar that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched the classic flick, &#8216;The Hustler&#8217; starring Paul Newman. This 1961 melodrama about a small-time pool shark featured some high-stakes &#8216;stick&#8217;, a tragic love story and a lot of smoking. This movie serves as an interesting back\u00a0story\u00a0to Martin Scorcese&#8217;s 1986 follow-up &#8216;The Color of Money&#8217; where a much older and wiser Eddie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17,18,23],"tags":[451,450,452],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-illustration","category-movies","tag-fast-eddie-felson","tag-paul-newman","tag-the-hustler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-26B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}