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# Nobody's Fool
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/nobodys-fool/
- Published: 2026-10-06T01:11:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:23:57.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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STORYCONTEXT: **Nobody’s Fool** (Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Dir. Robert Benton, 1994)

I’d give *Nobody’s Fool* nine stars out of ten. I can’t think of a reason not to give it all ten, but holding one back seems like a sign of intelligence. It’s interesting that you’re just as big a fan of Newman as you were when you recommended that movie back in our NYC days. You know, it surprises me how many flashes of our old conversations come back to me as I go through a week. Some recent movie-related examples that I can remember thinking of recently:

You talking about *Free Willy* as a really good movie, even though you thought it was ridiculous the way the whale flew over the top of the kid as he stood on solid ground. 

You laughing about Jim Carrey making his butt talk in *Ace Ventura*. You said, more or less, “A person who makes his butt talk has something seriously wrong with him,” but you had a hard time saying it because you were giggling so hard. I think this conversation took place in a restaurant we used to go to that was on an east-west street just south of Gramercy Park by a block or two. The name was something like “Watering Hole.”

By the way, if your memory version of *Philadelphia Story* is better than the actual movie, I’d like to see that one, too. I love that movie as it is. Definitely a nine star. Maybe I’d give your version the full ten. *\~ Oct. 30, 2006 / Email to Susan G.* (1)