Pool hustling is one of those things, like quicksand, that pop culture trained us to believe we'd encounter a lot more often in everyday life. In reality, most people don't play pool often, and when they do, they're not pulling some long con to steal twenty bucks from a stranger. On TV, though, pool hustlers used to show up weirdly often, frequently swindling unsuspecting characters out of their dough to great comedic effect.
Classic black-and-white sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is one of the earlier shows to include the trope, in a second season episode called "Hustling the Hustler" which aired just a year after Paul Newman's "The Hustler" hit theaters. The episode is all about Rob's (Van Dyke) coworker Buddy's brother, Blackie (character actor Phil Leeds), who blows into town and gets the cold shoulder from Buddy. It turns out Blackie was a pool hustler, but by episode's end,...
Classic black-and-white sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is one of the earlier shows to include the trope, in a second season episode called "Hustling the Hustler" which aired just a year after Paul Newman's "The Hustler" hit theaters. The episode is all about Rob's (Van Dyke) coworker Buddy's brother, Blackie (character actor Phil Leeds), who blows into town and gets the cold shoulder from Buddy. It turns out Blackie was a pool hustler, but by episode's end,...
- 1/21/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Ted Rich, the longtime film editor and postproduction executive who started out on I Love Lucy and segued to other television classics like Get Smart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hill Street Blues and Dallas, has died. He was 88.
Rich, who received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors two years ago, died Saturday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his son, Steven, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Rich assisted editor Bud Molin on the iconic I Love Lucy at Desilu Productions early in his career, and he went on to cut shows including I'm Dickens, He's Fenster; The ...
Rich, who received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors two years ago, died Saturday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his son, Steven, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Rich assisted editor Bud Molin on the iconic I Love Lucy at Desilu Productions early in his career, and he went on to cut shows including I'm Dickens, He's Fenster; The ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Steve Martin brings down the house with this adoring, hilarious pastiche of mad doctor and disembodied brain motifs — surely the epitome of cultured comedy. Under Carl Reiner’s direction Martin is marvelous, and he’s aided and abetted by the daring sexpot-turned comedienne Kathleen Turner — who has a better handle on outrageous sexy comedy than they do. It’s class-act nonsense and inspired silliness. Where else can a crazed surgeon proclaim his special screw-top skull surgery method, and utter the immortal words, “Scum queen?!”
The Man with Two Brains
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 90 93 min. / Street Date August 29, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff, James Cromwell, George Furth, Peter Hobbs, Jeffrey Combs.
Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Film Editor: Bud Molin
Production Design: Polly Platt
Original Music: Joel Goldsmith
Written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin
Produced by William E. McEuen,...
The Man with Two Brains
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 90 93 min. / Street Date August 29, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff, James Cromwell, George Furth, Peter Hobbs, Jeffrey Combs.
Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Film Editor: Bud Molin
Production Design: Polly Platt
Original Music: Joel Goldsmith
Written by Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin
Produced by William E. McEuen,...
- 8/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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