 
| The Color of Money Shadow Box 14" x 18"
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In the book version of the sequel, Felson is no longer a professional pool player, but owns a pool hall. He takes up a cue again to go on tour versus Minnesota Fats (the fictional character from The Hustler, not Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone) for a cable TV sports show. While losing to Fats, he regains some of his lost competitiveness and pride.
In the film version, Felson is a liquor salesman, who misses the action, and goes back on the road as a stakehorse for a skilled but unfocused protégé, Vincent, travelling with the latter's manipulative girlfriend, Carmen. Eddie teaches them how to hustle significant amounts of money, but becomes increasingly frustrated with them and with himself, until they have an explosive falling-out, and part ways. Eddie resumes competitive play himself, first hustling on "the road" and later in the professional tournament circuit, eventually coming head-to-head across the table with the now-successful (and treacherous) Vincent. Subplots involve antagonism with Eddie's cocaine-abusing former sidekick Julian; Eddie's up-and-down romance with a bar owner, Janelle; sexual tension between Carmen and Eddie; and (as in the book) Eddie's returning sense of pride. Only minor references are made to the original movie (a returned character, Eddie's nickname, his formerly being shut out of the pool-hustling sphere, his preferred brand of whiskey, J.T.S. Brown, etc.), and Fats is not part of the story.
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