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Minnesota Fats
George Hegerman is a fictional pool hustler, better known by the nickname "Minnesota Fats", featured as a prominent character in Walter Tevis' novels ''The Hustler'' (1959) and ''The Color of Money'' (1986). Actor Jackie Gleason was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association )〕 for Best Supporting Actor, and honored as Best Supporting Actor by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures )〕 for portraying the character in the film adaptation of ''The Hustler'' (1961). The Minnesota Fats character did not appear in the film version of ''The Color of Money'' (1986), which had an entirely different storyline from the novel.
==Rudolf Wanderone as "Minnesota Fats"==
Real-life pool hustler and entertainer Rudolf Wanderone was known as "New York Fats" (among other nicknames) when the book was published. Realizing there was money to be made from being associated with the success of the book and subsequent film, he changed his nickname to match the fiction〔 and later went on to play himself as the character "Minnesota Fats" in the film, ''The Player'' (1971). Tevis consistently denied that Wanderone had anything to do with the author's character,〔 writing in a subsequent printing of ''The Hustler'': "I made up Minnesota Fats—name and all—as surely as Disney made up Donald Duck".
Wanderone's association with the name started in 1961. That year, while at a drive-in movie theater owned by a friend of Wanderone's (George Jansco), in Johnston City, Illinois, showing ''The Hustler'', Wanderone boasted that the author had based the character upon himself, which was picked up by local news and soon by the U.S. national press. Willie Mosconi – famed as 15-time World Straight Pool Championship and the technical adviser for the filming of the ''The Hustler'' – disputed the claim, which had the paradoxical effect of giving it more notoriety. Wanderone capitalized, threatening to sue Tevis and 20th Century Fox. Tevis responded by denying he had ever met Wanderone. Meanwhile, the press covered it all, and the association became fixed. Wanderone's second wife later claimed that a financial settlement had been made by Tevis to avoid a lawsuit, which Wanderone's first wife denied.〔
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