Paul Newman in the lead role (in arguably his penultimate and accomplished screen appearance) as a brash, contending pool hustler ("They called him ""Fast Eddie""") became a leading man with his film, but he was wrongly denied his first Oscar - although twenty-five years later, the Academy honored Newman with his first (and sole) Best Acting Award for reprising the role in director Martin Scorsese""s sequel,The Color of Money (1986).A masked Michael broke free, emerged from the van""s back door, and with a broken shard of glass crudely sawed through the neck of the hapless assistant Scott and beheaded him(# 2 death).A viper").With her long narrow tongue, she spread venomous poison onto the tip of a fountain pen, and then thrust it into Shingen""s jugular vein in his neck - he fell into an inner courtyard pool.In the next scene, Christina is in a canopied bed one early morning, voraciously reading by candlelight to acquire knowledge: "I have so little free time Aage."Fiona - "You did."Shrek - "No.It was you that rescued me."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $165 million, and box-office gross receipts of $239 million (domestic) and $752.