![]() ![]() ‘It places a terrible premium on appearance.’ Time to put those shades back on. ‘There’s something very corrupting about being an actor,’ he said. ![]() But he really didn’t want to talk about his own accomplishments. Dowd saw Newman’s renewed vigour for acting – when it looked as if he might pack it all in – reflected in the new film’s plot: ‘Fast Eddie sees Vince’s pure love of pool, and after years of thinking of the game as merely a hustle, suddenly falls back in love with the game himself.’ĭowd argued that though Newman was ‘a champion racing driver, the founder of a successful food business, a political activist and a philanthropist’, he remained curiously elusive, existing in the public mind as ‘bits and pieces of his characters – Butch Cassidy’s charm, Ben Quick’s machismo, Cool Hand Luke’s defiance, Harper’s irony, Hud’s disdain’.ĭowd reckoned that Newman had finally become ‘liberated from the burden of his sex-symbol image’. This time around he was the Machiavellian manager of Tom Cruise’s Vince Lauria, a hotshot in Felson’s mould. In The Color of Money, Newman reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson, the cocky pool shark in The Hustler (1961). Joining Newman on this dubious quest is a friend played by Lee Marvin, a boozer with several failed schemes to get rich quick. He had Butch Cassidy’s charm, Ben Quick’s machismo, Cool Hand Luke’s defiance, Harper’s irony, Hud’s disdain… The wisp of a plot finds Newman as a nave Texas cowboy, desperate for money, who enters into a questionable deal to supply Mexican cattle to a shady rodeo supplier played by Strother Martin.
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