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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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According to the trailers on the DVD I have of the movie, Newman had never held a cue before the movie started, but with instructions from Mosconi for a few weeks, he could easily look like a skilled shooter. My GAWD! Can you imagine the bad habits NOT learned if you were a virgin to the game, then had Mosconi as a teacher??? Gleason was a true lover of the game, a good shooter in his own right. Rumor has it Gleason took money from many a wannabe Shark who thought he'd found a fish.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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