January 10, 2008

Artists in Action #315


Sean Connery plays bar billiards (1962)

this was posted by Cinebeats

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5 comments so far:

mannorak said...

Not pool - rather bar billiards, a traditional British pub game now sadly almost extinct (at least in major cities).

See http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Bar-Billiards.htm

January 10, 2008 6:17 AM
swac said...

Wait...do those things squirt poison gas or lasers?

January 10, 2008 10:14 AM
Vanwall said...

Isn't this one of those forced perspective shots form "Darby O'Gill"?

January 10, 2008 11:10 AM
Cinebeats said...

Thanks for the correction mannorak! Clearly I shouldn't be posting images after midnight.

January 10, 2008 1:33 PM
Vanwall said...

You're not hanging around in bars enough, there's a good girl. A betting man's favorite, I played it once in a pub on the way to Donington Park, and even tho I practically grew up with a cue stick in one hand and sleeping on the pool table at home, it was much trickier than it looked, just like real billiards. Played real fast tho, so having a pint after each round was not recommended if I was to make it to the museum in any condition to appreciate the Vanwalls, so I left sharpish, poorer but wiser.

January 10, 2008 4:24 PM

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